October 20, 2025

Casserole ("Hot dish") Cookbooks for Autumn

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Back in 2019, during the COVID lockdown and a highly-contagious illness was spreading rapidly nationwide and there were no vaccines availabl...
July 14, 2025

Mining Vintage Recipes to Find a Taste of our Childhoods

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There are certain recipes which our mothers (or, in some cases, our fathers) hand down to us because they might have been favorites when we ...
December 3, 2024

Spectrum News Plus on Xumo Play Brings a New Alternative News Source to Millions

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Whether you've noticed it or not, traditional cable TV viewership has been declining as cable companies have relentlessly raised prices ...
November 19, 2024

The Last Kmart Store Closes Its Doors

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My readers may recall that I previously blogged about the now-defunct retailer Kmart and how the Internet Archive has recordings of the in-s...
August 18, 2024

"Mid-Century Modern" Could Become "The Golden Gays" Sitcom Viewers Have Been Awaiting Since Bea Arthur Left The Sitcom "The Golden Girls" in 1992

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From left: Matt Bomer, Nathan Lane, Nathan Lee Graham and Linda Lavin in 'Mid-Century Modern' Photo: Disney/Chris Haston Short Versi...
August 5, 2024

Brooke Shields Could Have Turned Into Another Child Star Gone Bad, But She Turned Out OK In Spite of Odds, Which Were Stacked Against Her

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Back in April/May 2024, Brooke Shields was featured on the cover of AARP magazine.  I recall growing up and my parents used to comment that ...