Let’s Start the New Year Right
Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds serving up a midnight feast and also entertaining the customers. Holiday Inn, 1942.
It Took a Long, Long, Time
Finally finished Volume 2 of Gary Giddins’ masterful biography of Bing Crosby. To celebrate, here’s Bing singing It’s Been a…
Rhythm on the River
We’re overdue for some Bing on this page. Crosby not only sings, he provides percussion for Rhythm on the River,…
The Kaleva Incident and the Death of Henry Antheil, Jr.
The name Henry Antheil, Jr, is on a tombstone in Riverview Cemetery, but he is not buried there. Henry, the…
Pulp Artist Gloria Stoll Karn
Allison Meier on 1940s artist Gloria Stoll Karn, who illustrated the covers of pulp mags from Dime Mystery to Rangeland…