Another flip through our 1980s back pages, this time around: interning at one of the first hip hop radio stations ever, getting that first kiss...
More philosophical tango, this time around touching on suppression of speech, everyone getting offended, riding on the fumes of past dreams, unheard words, thoughts missed...
The blurred perspicacity of an indecent single mom
As Jews, Geralda & Yuri Zhislin’s parents miraculously survived the Nazi invasion of the Ukraine only to next feel the persecution of the Soviet Union’s...
Tito Puente was considered hands down the “King of the Mambo”, pushing and molding the genre of Latin jazz known by many names over time....
Even when Charlie Coleman was a kid, hot jazz was fading from the mainstream public’s musical preferences. But knowing great music when he heard it,...
Master Hu is Taoist scholar who discusses with us the relationship between the philosophical and religious spectrum of Taoism, the attempt to incorporate Confucianism, making...
More highlighting of overlooked artists from the 1980’s decade. Including Pseudo Echo, The Lazy Cowgirls, the Roxanne Roxanne answer records, 鄧麗君, 15 60 75 Numbers...
This episode features a guy named Steve C who’s had a lot of disappointment in his life. Date-killing bad memory and bowels, opening for a...
Another philosophical discussion, this time around on such light subjects as martyrdom, socialism, forgiveness, failure and spilling huckleberries. Click here to find on iTunes! Click...
More tubular tripping backwards to the 1980’s where this time around we chat about The Kinks doing it again, a Tennessee Waltz crush in Zimbabwe,...
It’s once again time to don your spandex, caped crusaders! As the Chicago Comicon and Entertainment Expo or C2E2 is this weekend. This year, we...
Holy Mother of Dragons… As if there were any question why it’s the best show on television, the Game of Thrones season 6 redband trailer...
Creating digital worlds in which to explore and interact in used to be the privilege of those who both educated themselves on how to do...
Booyah! The eighth installment of the viral video series Gymkhana features the Head Hoonigan in Charge Ken Block tearing through the streets and desert of...
He’s handsome. He’s talented. He’s made 30 movies, of which everyone in the world has seen or at least heard of one. The truth is, he’s...
On this week’s episode of In the Corner Back by the Woodpile, African-American Hattie Bruce comes from the past tells about her own simple but...
After many snubs throughout his prolific film career, actor Leonardo DiCaprio is the favorite to win Best Actor in the Oscars this Sunday. While everyone...
The hashtag, #FreeKesha, and the movement behind it has rapidly become something far greater than the recent Manhattan Supreme Court ruling and the reaction which...
Actor George Gaynes, best known the world over as “Punky Brewster’s Dad,” and as the lovable Commandant Lassard in seven “Police Academy” films, died on...
More philosophical back and forth at the woodpile, this time around discussing the stuff found in silence, time’s changing medicinal hands and knowing perfection through...
As the motoring press descended upon Chicago for Media Preview Day, Chew-bro-cca and his remote control inflatable sidekick launched Car Wars, our in-depth review of...
Fresh from the 2016 International Association of Jazz Record Collectors convention, we present the first of a series of interviews with some of the organization’s...
Wenzhou church before and after government demolition We’re over in China again and revisiting with our previous guest and friend “Peter”. The young man...
That’s no moon… It’s the sun! And if it’s hovering over the house it means barbecue season is upon us. But don’t settle for your...
On June 6th, 1944, the Allied forces landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy, France, setting in motion the bloody business of retaking Northern Europe away...
Some years ago I had a record shop and there were moments that made all the struggles and heartaches of having a small business worth...
The internet has been ablaze with talk of the new Suicide Squad trailer, which debuted on the CW last night to mostly rave reviews. We’d...
In what is proving to be a tough week for fans of vintage music, film and television, yet another 70s/80s icon leaves us this week...
Millennials will best remember him as Professor Severus Snape, the fictional character in author J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. He is characterised as...