Produced by Howard Hawkes, "The Thing from Another World" is that rare Science Fiction movie to rise above the usual hokey Si-Fi fare,...

It seems every Lincoln biography is intrinsically linked to the Civil War.  Not so, with Jon Meacham's intimate portrait of our 16th ...

As the elected president off Moldova -- one of Europe's poorest countries -- Maia Sandu often uses part of her day to rebut online...

After its surprising but effective military incursion into Russia in August, Ukraine has shown why it is not really seeking territorial...

Driving down Chestnut Street in Philadelphia's "Old Town", you'd never guess that this cobbelstone street once had been the center of...

There’s a freedom to the music of Bela Bartok, a willingness to cut loose from the moorings of Brahms, Mozart, and even Beethoven, to let...

A friend of mine, once walked into a tire store, and said he needed a set of new tires for his Lincoln Continental.  And then told the...

It took 37 years, but Aretha Franklin's miraculous performance at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, in 1972, was...

When Barbra Streisand was twelve-years old, she underwent a dramatic and remarkable change: her ears popped, and suddenly she could hear...

Monday-Tuesday (May 18-19) -- I met my older brother John at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, and together we boarded a direct flight to...

Among Genesis's innumerable meanings is a theory about how truth is gained.  Starting with the famous opening "In the beginning," the...

What do you get when an ex-Beatle travels to Nashville and sits in with the finest group of Country musicians this side of the...

Throughout history rivers have been the lifeline of civilization.  In "Rivers of Power" author and geophysicist Laurence Smith shows how...

Book Review: "The Promised Land" by Barak Obama Reading "The Promised Land" by Barak Obamana is tantamount to taking a semester of...

The miracle of "The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions", is that they happened at all.  The surprise of these sessions is that the music is...

I have read several books about the Civil War, but "Vicksburg" by Donald L. Miller, is the absolute best.  In fact, if you want to...

Had the Marx Brothers been a Rock-n-Roll band, they would have been The Who, the edgy, mischievous British Blues-Rock band that in the...

While their names may not roll off the tongue with the alacrity of John, Paul, George and Ringo--the Fab Four Beatles--in their day John, Paul, James and Peter, were something of a Fab Four themselves, who transformed an obscure Jewish sect into a national religion that stretched to the far reaches of the Roman Empire. John, Paul, James and Peter.  Who were they? JOHN was Jesus' "beloved disciple". He would write the fourth Gospel (The Gospel of John), and the Book of Revela

The Three Wise Men of yore were, of course, the Three Wise Men from the east, who came to Bethlehem bearing gifts for the new-born Jesus.  Little is known about these three, who they were, nor exactly where they came from. The Three Wise Men that I'm referring to we do know a great deal about, and the gifts they offered were so much more precious than gold, frankincense, and myrrh.  These three came bearing the greatest gift of all--divine Love.  I'm referring to Jesus of Na

THEY WERE THE ODD COUPLE of the American Revolution: John Adams, short, stout, emotional, impatient, vain, highly opinionated, and...