Charlie’s Stash

from The Thread HOW CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S WIFE SAVED HIS BACKYARD FORTUNE By Sean Braswell Charlie Chaplin was having lunch in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when he heard some devastating news on September 19, 1952. The British screen legend and longtime U.S. resident...

Virgin Mars

from Business Insider Richard Branson says he’s 6 months from going to space — but Mars belongs to Elon Musk by Tom Turula Richard Branson’s private space program Virgin Galactic has long promised to democratize space travel. After thirteen years of development...

Kubrick’s Right-hand

from Daily. Beast Stanley Kubrick’s Right-Hand Man Speaks: The Personal Toll of Working With a Genius Leon Vitali’s career spent working alongside Stanley Kubrick is a case study of both selfless devotion and self-destructive mania. He wouldn’t have it any other way....

Red-Right 88

from BobFreyMusic.com BOB FREY Hey Everybody, Below is a newly recorded version of my 20-minute (!!) ode to the Cleveland Browns “Red-Right 88”.  It first appeared on my record “Tape From Minnesota” (2004).  I decided to re-record this song,...

AIM Gone

from The Atlantic AIM Was Perfect, and Now It Will Die A eulogy for the chatting service, which will shut down on December 15 by ROBINSON MEYER Axel Heimken / AP You kids don’t understand. You could never understand. You walk around in habitats of text, pop-up...