“Mia’s Metamorphoses”1966-2010
[...] In the mid-1960s, a young actress named Mia Farrow was the TV celebrity de jour starring in a new kind of prime-time soap opera called “Peyton Place”...It now seems light years away from that...
View Article“The Jack Pack”Pt.2: 1961-1990s
[...] Part 2 of the history of Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack and their dealings with the 1960 presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy and his presidency thorugh 1963.... The story picks up at 1961...
View Article“The iPod Silhouettes”2000-2011
[...] Steve Jobs, Apple, and TBWA/Chiat/Day created a memorable advertising campaign & enduring set of cultural images with their iPod-attired silhouette dancers... These ads, used to sell digital...
View Article“Brian’s Song”C-SPAN
[...] Brian Lamb is the founder and creator of the C-SPAN public affairs TV network that covers Congress and a lot more... Lamb has consistently shown with his eclectic range of subjects and guests,...
View Article“Empire Newhouse”1920s-2012
[...] Advance Publications is a sprawling media empire of leading magazines, newspapers, cable TV and websites owned by the Newhouse family of Long Island, New York. In recent years the...
View Article“The Yogi Chronicles”1940s-2012
[...] Yogi Berra, the famous Hall-of-Fame, New York Yankee baseball player, in addition to becoming a sports celebrity of his day, also became something of cultural icon know for his “famous sayings” –...
View Article“Life Is Beautiful”2006: Vega 4
[...] “Life is Beautiful” is the name of a 2006 song by the U.K. group Vega 4... The song is filled with emotionally powerful sentiment and moving lyrics, and has been used in PBS advertising, TV...
View Article“Dark Side’s 40 Years”1973-2013
[...] A 1973 rock music album by the British group Pink Floyd, 'The Dark Side of the Moon,' stayed on Billboard’s top 200 albums sales chart for 741 consecutive weeks, from March 1973 to April 1988,...
View Article“Civil Rights Stories”1930s-2010s
[...] This “topics page” lists 14 stories at this website which include civil rights-related content. Among stories listed are several related to civil rights & music; civil rights &...
View Article“The Saddest Song”1936-2013
[...]“Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber might also be called “Adagio for Tears” since it is known for evoking very powerful emotion and sadness among its listeners. Used in film scores from...
View Article“Celebrity Gifford”1950s-2000s
[...] Frank Gifford, a talented New York Giants football player in the 1950s & 1960s, became a popular figure in New York & nationally and a familiar face in print & TV ads. He also became...
View Article“Moondog Alan Freed”1951-1965
[...] In the staid Eisenhower 1950s, when pop radio featured mostly standard fare, a Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey named Alan Freed began to shake things up with his what he called “rock ’n roll” music –...
View Article“Keira & The Zombies”2014 & The 1960s
[...] In March 2014, actress Keira Knightley and the 1960s’ Zombies teamed up to do a Chanel perfume TV ad to the tune of “She’s Not There”– attention-getting music that backs the ad’s “mystery”...
View Article“Flash Boy Lewis”1989-2014
[...] In March/April 2014, a new book about high-speed computerized stock trading on Wall Street titled “Flash Boys” by Michael Lewis created a firestorm of controversy by revealing unfair electronic...
View Article“Burn On, Big River…”Cuyahoga River Fires
[...] This story explores the history of several Cuyahoga River fires in the Cleveland, Ohio region, circa 1890s to 1969; their influence on national environmental history & public policy; and some...
View Article“Noteworthy Ladies”Selected Stories: 1910s-2010s
[...] This “topics page” provides thumbnail sketches and links to 36 stories at this website on female careers in music, film, sport, politics, publishing and other endeavors... Some offer in-depth...
View Article“Legend of a Mind”Timothy Leary & LSD
[...]“Legend of a Mind” is the name of a 1968 Moody Blues song about a man named Timothy Leary, a former Harvard University instructor and research psychologist who became something of a “pied piper”...
View Article“Inferno at Whiting”Standard Oil: 1955
[...] In August 1955, the Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana had a catastrophic explosion and fire of historic proportion that shattered nearby-communities and burned through...
View Article“Magazine History”Selected Stories: 1910s-2010s
[...] This "topics page" provides thumbnail sketches and links to 18 stories at this website that feature or include magazine-related content from the last 100 years – including selected cover art,...
View Article“Rhino Skin”Tom Petty: 1999
[...] The Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers song, “Rhino Skin,” suggests that in navigating today’s modern world – life, love, work, and all the rest – you need to have “thick skin” ... It’s a tough,...
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