(NYTimes) “The Wire” premiered on HBO on June 2, 2002. In the two decades since, its reputation has only grown, as has its audience. It is ...

(LoC) James Henry Neel Reed, known as Henry Reed, was born on April 28, 1884, in the Appalachian Mountains of Monroe County, West Virgin...

(Wikipedia) Edward Everett Horton (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) was an American character actor with a long career in film, thea...

(Wikipedia) Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress, talk-show host, and bon vivant. ... ...

  (thedailybeast) ... Yet these American girls paid a price for their strawberry leaves and coronets. Most had grown up in modern homes...

  (Wikipedia) The Columbia Phonograph Company was originally the local company run by Edward Easton, distributing and selling Edison phon...

  Les Misérables has finally arrived in theaters! Boy, the music is beautiful, but what the heck is going on? The Daily Beast expla...

(Wikipedia) Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. Call...

(NYTimes) Having worked before at the intersection of Hollywood and history, helping a tiny bit with a respectable movie about the Cuban mi...

(Wikipedia) Howard Ellsworth Rollins, Jr. (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 1996) was an American television, film, and stage actor. He is...

(Smithsonian) It was 50 years ago this coming Sunday that the Jetson family first jetpacked their way into American homes. The show laste...

(NYTimes) ... Ostensibly the new series is about a former boxer and Civil War veteran turned police detective, Kevin Corcoran (played by ...

(Wikipedia) Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter and folk music...

(boingboing)  UC Santa Cruz launched the Grateful Dead Archive Online last Friday with tens of thousands of items. But it wouldn'...

(NYTimes) “A nickel-plated son of a bitch.” That was how David R. Locke, an Ohio newspaperman and the most daring comedian of the Civi...

(Baltimore Sun) Only people who know where to look would be able to pay respects to Norman Chaney, who is buried in an unmarked grave in B...

(NYTimes) THERE is an almost Sisyphean sensation that comes from navigating the network of hallways, elevators and escalators at the Los Ang...

(thisisnottingham.co.uk) ... Both on screen and in the flesh today, raven-haired Cusack looks much younger than his 45 years, thanks in part...