Monthly Archives: January, 2007
Meet the Beatles again… sort of
Although a small label had unsuccessfully released some singles in 1963, most American rock and roll fans were introduced to a new band from England via Capitol Records’ 1964 album, “Meet the Beatles.†That album, and the subsequent visits by the mop-topped Liverpudlians to the U.S., sparked by appearances on TV including historic performances on […]
Book ’em, Danno… all over again
One of the cool things about traveling to LA is getting to watch KDOC, a local station that unearths old TV shows and airs them. For some reason, whenever I’m in town I get to tune in to old episodes of “Hawaii Five-O.” The show is fascinating to me for several reasons. It fit my […]
“Heroes” on the tiny screen
We don’t have cable TV — at least, not at the moment — and don’t have a TiVo or other digital video recorder. We also don’t watch much broadcast TV. Instead, we catch up on TV series on DVD, thanks to Netflix. We’ve burned through entire seasons of “24,” “Alias,” “X-Files,” “Smallville,” “Sopranos,” “Six Feet […]
The “Long Tail” and my online tribute to a friend, Alan Dumas
Newspapers come and the news is gone the next day. TV reports are even briefer. Magazines tell their stories week by week, or month by month, and then they’re forgotten. But content on the Internet has a more persistent life cycle. Now, content can live forever — or at least, a lot longer than it […]
Say Ramen, Somebody!
The world lost a food pioneer on January 5. Momofuku Ando, 97, the self-professed “Noodle King,” was the man who invented instant ramen — the low budget dining delicacy of college students everywhere. Long before sushi, there was another and more profound Japanese food invasion in the United States. Since the mid-1970s, instant ramen has […]
