Goodbye To A Hollywood O.G.: Robert Blake
Iconic Hollywood rebel, infamous murder suspect, one of Johnny Carson’s best and frequent guests, actor Robert Blake was born in Nutley, New Jersey.
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Newark and Kailasa, Better Together?
At the beginning of 2023, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka invited the Hindu nation of Kailasa to Newark’s City Hall for a “cultural trade agreement.”
Give Me My Comics….Or Else!
I get how one might be slightly perturbed if someone out and stole and sold one’s comic books.
Does the punishment fit the crime? Surely not. But…
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Here’s to the maids, babysitters and prostitutes. Here’s to the clerks, waitresses and secretaries. How about to all the dressmakers, make-up, hairstylists and stewardess.
And More Keeping Dying
Rossington’s co-founded the Rossington Collins Band with Allen Collins, another original Skynyrd guitarist in 1980, post the tragic Skynyrd plain crash in 1977.
Wayne Shorter, R.I.P.
Virtuosic jazz saxophonist and composer Newark-born-and-raised musician Wayne Shorter died this week at 89. Just last year, Newark renamed a…
U.S.-Based Echo City Capers Publishes in the UK
Ralph & Joe met in Clifton High School in the late ’70s, began a fast friendship, played in local bands, and generally ‘hung out’ throughout their 20’s. Losing touch for 25 years, they reconnected five years ago and began their Echo City publishing concern.
Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming…Keep The Kids Away!
As reported in Britain’s Daily Telegraph last week, Dahl’s publisher Puffin along The Roald Dahl Story Company, are excising words like “fat,” “ugly,” and “mad” from new editions of his kid’s books.
We So Glam
If anybody ever debates with you that New Jersey isn’t glamorous, you can now tell them where to go…literally.
Bruce Springsteen Just Doesn’t Know His Strength
Never let it be said that Bruce Springsteen is not in good shape.