In 1948, New Orleans veteran trumpeter and singer Louis Prima stumbled into a young girl named Keely Smith. She was barely a performer at all, almost half his age, destined for a relatively quiet life; their encounter was pure coincidence. But they went on to invent "The Wildest," the most exciting and successful lounge act Las Vegas has ever seen, an act that became one of the hottest in the U.S. in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Their records were hugely popular, and they were courted b...

Pregiudizi: Prima Serie (1919) è una delle raccolte di saggi più iconiche di H.L. Mencken, l'opera che ha consolidato la sua fama di "Saggio di Baltimora" e di critico più temuto e brillante d'America.Il libro non è un trattato accademico, ma un'esplosione di critica culturale e letteraria scritta con uno stile spietato, ironico e profondamente aristocratico. È un manifesto iconoclasta in cui Mencken usa la critica letteraria come arma per demolire la cultura americana del primo No...

Arthur Godfrey, The Romance of Helen Trent, Our Gal Sunday, The Goldbergs, President Roosevelt’s Address to Congress, Amos and Andy, Joe E. Brown, Major Bowes, Louis Prima, and more all in a row!This is a recording of a full broadcast day, remastered (from the National Archives transcript disks) by Joe Bevilacqua.On Thursday, September 21st, 1939, radio station WJSV (CBS) in Washington, D.C., recorded their entire broadcast day — from sign on, to sign off.T...

El tema de la lucha del hombre entre el bien y el mal no es nuevo en la literatura, pues siempre se han contado relatos sobre la doble naturaleza de las personas; lo que sí es nuevo en EL EXTRAÑO CASO DEL DR. JEKYLL Y MR. HYDE, y de ahí su consideración de clásico, es el tratamiento argumental y el estilo que le imprime su autor. Stevenson se asegura de que lo fantástico se funda con lo realista o de que la culpa se amalgame con la búsqueda; consigue asomarse a la miseria y a la grandeza h...