Music 🎼: Lounge Acts: Henry Mancini!
Henry Mancini in the 1960s. Mainstream media has a tiresome habit of overusing terms like “icon” to refer to almost any celebrity represenRead More…
Books 📚: LGBTQ 🏳️🌈 Contemporary Non-Fiction: Long Road To Freedom – The Advocate History Of The Gay & Lesbian Movement (1994) 📖 📚 📖 📚
Front cover of Long Road To Freedom which catalogs numerous accomplishments of the LGBTQ community in the United States during latter half of the 20tRead More…
A Permanent Turning Point
What major historical events do you remember? The terrorist attacks of 9/11 are definitely what stands out most vividly for me although this awfulRead More…
Film 🎥 & Media Studies: Arizona Identity In Western Film: Stagecoach (1939) 🎥 🎞️ 🎥 🎞️ 🎥 🎞️ 🎥 🎞️ 🎥 🎞️ 🎥
Rip-roaring graphics make for a memorable theatrical release poster to promote Stagecoach (United Artists, 1939) This groundbreaking film went a longRead More…
Film 🎥 & Media Studies: Arizona Landscapes & Their Societal Impacts In Western Film – Part 2 🎞️ 🎥 🎞️ 🎥 🎞️
Attempts to tame the vast reaches of the American 🇺🇸 West – and the Arizona deserts 🏜️ in particular was a challenging task at best duringRead More…
Film 🎥 & Media Studies: Arizona Landscapes & Their Societal Impacts In Western Film – Part 1 🎞️ 🎥 🎞️ 🎥 🎞️
The rough, jagged topography of Walnut Canyon, typifies much of Arizona’s vast 113,000 square miles. Travel across the region was (and sometimes stRead More…