[ April 14, 2026 ]
GOLDEN AGE OF ART AND CULTURE: President Trump Fires Kennedy Center Board Members, Names Himself Chairman
“We are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN,”
Making America beautiful again.
“We are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN,”
Making America beautiful again.
Happy Mother’s Day to all our readers and supporters. Moms do the heavy lifting – the unsung heroines of any age.
You’ll be getting one of these daily until the end of house arrest.
Happy birthday, blue eyes (December 12, 1915)
Bow Wow Wow
My girl.
Eeeha. Patsy Montana in 1934.
Because it’s so good.
A towering song for a towering weekend.
John Lee Hooker has everything you need for a Friday night. Pour yourself one or three. Turn up the volume. Think about how great it is to be alive. One bourbon, One Scotch and One beer. I said hey mister bartender come in here! I want another drink and I want it now. My baby…
Magnificent.
For you, America.
The Clash. Tonight’s Friday night open music thread is dedicated to Tommy Robinson.
Louis Armstrong and the Duke Ellington, The Great Summit.
Hey! Ho! Let’s go!
‘Super Trump” is …… super!
The Count and Bennett.
Billie Holiday singing sophisticated music in the age of the neanderthals.
New record out today. Friday night open thread is a tribute to Morrissey.
George Gershwin and Billie Holiday, Embrace me. (1944)
For that’s a lovely way to be…
Joie! Pour le moment …..
Billie Holiday
As in Tatum.
Gilberto and Jobim. Ahhhhhh
We can beat them, forever and ever.
Who can’t relate?
Vaughn with a twist. Because anything Sarah — remixed, shaken or stirred — is supreme.
French culture before the invasion.
This one is for the mensch that Muddy raised.
Louis Prima and Keely Smith LIVE
This is my song. And yours.
The one, the only, the incandescent Dinah Washington.
Clarence’s Santa-laugh is everything.
On the Ed Sullivan Show. Fifty years on, it’s as thrilling now as then. And that pelvic move — great balls of fire.
Leonard Cohen is everything.
Unequaled energy, clarity and verve.
The great singer celebrates the great city.
Because the West is best.
Searingly intense. An unusual performance, but brilliant.
You will not find music more passionate and profound than this.
Don Julio for me, thankyouverymuch.
Charles Aznavour died this week. And France, too — the France of love, romance, beauty, elegance, fashion.
She’s A Rainbow, The Rolling Stones
We lost one of the greats.
Bach: Prelude from Suite No. 1 in G major
Friday night music with long time jazz guitar favorite, three fingered lightening Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli doing Sweet Georgia Brown.
How this evokes my youth, my exuberant, wild youth and that of my generation…..
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Paris, 1960 – what else do you need save for a martini, extra dry, very cool?
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