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You know an announcer has become an icon when you appear as yourself on TV shows and movies. That was JIM LANGE , who died this week age ...

We can't seem to escape the icy grip of WINTER . It's only supposed to "warm" to 10 degrees Fahrenheit today, and tonig...

It's difficult reading the NED VIZZINI novel, "IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY," after the events of Dec. 19, 2013. That...

I've finished reading RICHARD COOK'S "IT'S ABOUT THAT TIME: MILES DAVIS ON AND OFF RECORD," and with it a couple of...

If you have had trouble figuring out what MILES DAVIS was doing during his polarizing "electric period," I suggest watching the...

DAVE HOLLAND/SAM RIVERS is so deceptively simple. One album... two players... two songs... DAVE HOLLAND plays bass throughout... SAM RI...

These kids today. Try telling them PETER GABRIEL and PHIL COLLINS were once in a band together... ... and they won't believe ya...

"BITCHES BREW" has always been about 10 years ahead of my time. I thrive on the music MILES DAVIS made about a decade or so b...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of THE BEATLES' inaugural appearance on the ED SULLIVAN SHOW , a watershed moment for television and ...

I've become seriously weary of this WINTER . Another 2 inches of SNOW are coming our way later today, which will give us 40 inches f...

"THE JOY OF ABBA" does more than trace the ascent of AGNETHA FÄLTSKOG , BJÖRN ULVAEUS , BENNY ANDERSSON and ANNI-FRID LYNGSTAD...

I watched on TV as FRANCE defeated ENGLAND , 26-24 , today in a thrilling start to this year's SIX NATIONS TOURNAMENT in Paris. Te...

The magnetic schedule on my refrigerator shows games through the beginning of April, but the SAN FRANCISCO BULLS won't be playing any...

I'm reading RICHARD COOK'S biographical discography (or discographical biography) "IT'S ABOUT THAT TIME: MILES DAVIS ON ...

I can't seem to quit listening to "COLLECTORS' ITEMS." The 1956 studio album by MILES DAVIS features music produced at...

I'm more than halfway through JIM THOMPSON'S 1958 crime novel "THE GETAWAY" and I am wishing I had tallied the murders...

Nothing I had read prepared me for the first time I heard BROTHER CLAUDE ELY . Reviews of the PENTACOSTAL HOLINESS GOSPEL SINGER'S ...

I endured the most comprehensive, invasive EYE EXAMINATION of my life on Friday. I need a stronger prescription for my reading glasses (...

There might not be a POLICE PURSUIT every Friday in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA , but it sure seems like it. I watched today's edition of co...

The girls offered to get me professional help last night as I struggled to put the songs of my CHET BAKER playlist into chronological ord...