Herbie Gets His Due

from Lee Bailey’s EUR WEB HERBIE HANCOCK JOINS L.A. PHILHARMONIC: Jazz great named creative chair; begins two-year tenure in 2010. The Los Angeles Philharmonic has tapped Herbie Hancock as its new creative chair for jazz, a post that oversees jazz programming at...

Baatin Gone

from The Detroit Free Press Slum Village rapper Baatin dead at 35 Detroit native, known for spiritual lyrics, had recently returned to group BY BRIAN MCCOLLUM • FREE PRESS POP MUSIC WRITER • AUGUST 1, 2009 Titus (Baatin) Glover, the Detroit rapper who co-founded the...

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman

from the New York Times The Art of Rebellion From “The Art of Harvey Kurtzman” More Photos > By STEVEN HELLER If not for Mad magazine, there might never have been (in no particular order) 1960s youth culture, underground comics, Wacky Packs, “Laugh-In,” “Saturday...

A Heart Valve Tree

from Oregon Health & Science University Heart valves grow on trees At the time of the receipt of the Howard J. Stroud Papers (Accession 2007-015), we posted a short notice in this space. Beyond creating a basic inventory of the collection, not much processing has...

Create Your Own Library Card

from Kimbooktu.com Library Card Generator January 17, 2007 Filed under: Humour — Kim @ 1:34 pm This great fun! On this site you can make your own library card. You can put anything on it. If you press the button to make it a couple of times you get all sorts of...