The first celebration of Columbus Day took place in New York City on October 12, 1866. Since 1970, the holiday has been celebrated on the second Monday in October. San Francisco holds the nation’s oldest continuously existing celebration with their Italian-American community’s annual Columbus Day Parade, which was established in 1868.
Despite the negative publicity Christopher Columbus is getting these days, it was October 28th, 1492 that Christopher Columbus Discovered Cuba. Columbus had tried …
Picture, in your mind, a beautiful ballroom. Men in tuxedos and women in gowns. An orchestra is playing beautiful music while the men and women dance the waltz and other folk dances. There is a sumptuous buffet laid out with every kind of delicacy and delicious pastry that that the mind of a master chef can conjure. People are dancing and eating and talking and laughing. Suddenly the bell in the high tower begins to …
AA Milne the author of the Pooh stories nor his young son were quite ready for the fame and …
The House with a Clock Built in its Wall
We are now living in an age where the senses are constantly stimulated. Our eyes are bombarded with images both beautiful and terrifying and the same could be said for our ears. Movies and TV give us story after story, most of them adapted in some way from books. After seeing the film versions of these books we think or feel that we no longer need to go back and read the original material. We …
The Death of Superman
On April 20th, 2017 the revival of HELLO DOLLY opened on Broadway starring Bette Midler and David Hyde-Pierce in the leading rolls of Dolly Levy and Horace Vandergelder. In January of 2018 Bernadette Peters and Victor Garber took on the iconic roles and the show continues to stay strong running at The Schubert Theater in NYC. It was recently announced that Ms. Midler would return to the role in the summer and that …
I have recently been very disappointed in the state of the modern comic book. In the last few months, especially with DC’s Rebirth series, I have wanted to see what was going in the lives of my favorite characters. The New 52 took so much away from the legend of Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and the rest of the DC Universe. I wanted to see what was restored and how and if I was going …
David Bruce Cassidy was born to Jack and Evelyn Cassidy on April 12 1950. His parents divorced when he was young but didn’t tell him. He found out two years later from a neighbor. His Father would marry actress and musical comedy star Shirley Jones who would become a step mother of sorts to David but would later become his TV mom in The Partridge Family. David got his GED early and followed his dreams …
