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While historians have for decades researched and documented the US victory over Japan in World War II, recent studies have revealed just how devastating the war was for Japanese civilians, particularly those subjected to bombing raids by B-29 Superfortresses of the US Air Force. Barrett Tillman’s 2010 title Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945 […]

 TONIGHT’S VIEWING 8:00CBS Gore Squad Elite investigators uncover a different child murder every week.WTF Unknown Mysteries: The Real Facts Exciting re-enactments of events that never happened.XXX Movie: Satanic Rites of Lesbula (Erotic Horror)CBC Chung’s Beat An Asian-Canadian detective and her Aboriginal partner solve crimes in Vancouver’s underworld. 9:00MOV Love Is Flying High (1933) A nightclub […]

In his poignant 1994 biography of the World War II Royal Air Force hero Guy Gibson, Richard Morris told how the celebrated leader of the “Dam Busters” squadron, on a morale-boosting tour of North America in 1943, received news that the rest of his bomber crew had been killed on a subsequent mission flying over […]

I grew up on the classic comic books of what are now known as the medium’s Silver and Bronze Ages, from the late 1960s through to the early 1980s. And from my youngest years I tried to replicate the work I found therein; at about age five I was even confident enough in my skills […]

Here are a number of propositions concerning a currently contentious issue in world affairs: Each of these statements may be contested; each may contain errors of fact or emphasis.  But none of them make reference to Jews, Jewishness, or the faith and culture of Judaism.  How is it, then, that so much of the criticism […]

Reposted, with revisions, from 2020: Here are some people who are likely to die within the next five, ten, or fifteen years: the two remaining Beatles, the four three original Rolling Stones, the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin, as well as Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson and Brian Wilson; Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, […]

Those of us who write professionally about popular culture have to balance the detached appraisal of the critic with the partisan appreciation of the consumer. After all, the movies, music, television and other media we review aren’t just artistic statements but leisure products as well, so they ought to be described with some of the […]

Blair and Gary MacLean were a Canadian comedy duo in the 1970s and 80s, whose taboo-busting career has been compared to Lenny Bruce’s and George Carlin’s. MacLean and MacLean also had a bit of Cheech & Chong’s countercultural irreverence, although their material was considerably cruder and more juvenile: among their best-known numbers were “Dolly Parton’s […]

While there’s already a decent biography of Charles Fort, Jim Steinmeyer’s The Man Who Invented the Supernatural (2008), Joshua Blu Buh’s 2024 book Think To New Worlds: The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers extends the study past the individual to his long-term influence. Fort, who died in 1932, was a self-taught scholar […]

Just about every big-name artist of the Twentieth Century, at one time or another, has been paid homage (or imitated, or exploited, if you prefer) by sound- and/or lookalike acts called tribute bands; Elvis and the Beatles most often, but hundreds of other stars too. For fans, the appeal of classic songs and iconic images […]