Posts by Alby

I still can't get over Trump's bonkers statement about magnets, to wit: "Now all I know about magnets is this: Give me a glass of water, let me drop it…

Given the media's eight-year obsession with Donald Trump, you would think the fact that he's odiferous would have emerged before now. A person of my close acquaintance who interviewed him…

Unless you grew up in the '60s, it's hard to imagine how naive the Boomers were in their youth. They actually thought singing about peace could bring it about. Nowadays…

T Bone Burnett is well-known and widely respected as a producer, but before he embarked on that career he was a guitarist – he played in Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue…

The Mummers Parade is hanging in there, even if it's much diminished. The march nowadays runs only from City Hall to Washington Street, in the wrong direction, and it doesn't…

We apparently have the Romans to thank for the annual night of bacchanalia that accompanies the final hours of the waning year. But it's German folklore, which held that how…

Nikki Haley's answer to the trick question "What caused the Civil War?" has caused her no end of grief in much of the country, but should sound familiar to anyone…

Tom Smothers, the comic half of the squabbling Smothers Brothers, died Tuesday at age 86. Though they'll always be remembered for having their top-rated variety show axed by CBS in…