Besides being a 1989 song from the New York City band Living Colour, a cult of personality is a particularly pervasive political tactic most often used by political regimes that…
There has been a new beat lurking around the music scene for about 10 years in North America. The new beat, or sound, is called reggaeton (pronounced reggae-tone) and it…
“The most beautiful guitar in the world.” That is what the sales literature from Gretsch called their Model 6136 White Falcon. Angelic in form and celestial in sound, the White…
Mmmm, sautéed celery and mushrooms in butter. Bubbly milk and cream of chicken soup. Eggs with almonds folded in and served on fried Chinese noodles. It’s awfully good! Bon Appétit!
Boys, on career day, remember you saw this. And, girls, on your wedding day, remember you saw this ….
Aluminum (or, Aluminium) is a chemical element in the boron group with symbol Al and atomic number 13. It is a silvery white, soft, ductile metal. Aluminum is the third…
The interwebs tell us that, in chemistry, a chemical substance is a form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Chemicals cannot be separated into components by physical…
Afterimages are experienced when a prolonged or intense visual stimulus ceases. Because afterimages result from fatigue in portions of the retina, the visual afterimage seems to move with the eye,…
Beach movies. Those goofy attempts during the 1960s to portray a fantasy teenage lifestyle on film and then sell it back to the teenagers viewing the movie in a theater.…
There’s a couple of problems here. First, this dish is a casserole, a conglomeration of ingredients slowly cooked in a deep dish and presented as an odd-looking loaf. Casseroles are…
Sailor Martin, as described by his creator and “handler”, is an unspeakably vile tattooed and pierced sailor (ventriloquist dummy) who stars in some very funny video mash-ups of vintage songs…
In 1994, a ban on assault rifles was instituted by President Clinton and it has since expired – except for a ban in California. The ban on assault rifles in…
For over 50 years, the Chuck Taylor All-Stars made by Converse have outperformed and outsold any other type of basketball shoe – or athletic shoe for that matter. Known on…