For the last twenty years of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country singer. Country music scholar Bill Malone writes, "For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that...
(9)THE SIMS 25TH ANNIVERSARY.“The Sims Turned Players Into Gods. And Farmers. And Vampires. And Landlords.”in theNew York Times(behind a paywall). Will Wright kindly requests that admirers stop describing him as a god. “I don’t think God would concern himself with taking out the tras...
GOD AND MAMMON…Clockwise, from top left, the Manhattan Congregational Church in 1927. The church was torn down in 1928 and replaced by the Manhattan Towers Hotel at Broadway and 76th; the completed hotel, designed to wrap around the three-story Jones Speedometer Building, seen in the lower ...
About three weeks ago, my eponymous Holloway Children’s Choir held a party to celebrate the fifth anniversary of our trip to the UK for a competition and tour. Five years ago, I never would have imagined that they would hold a reunion party every year for the next five years, each time...
Jones, turn him out, and proceed to run the place themselves for the sole benefit of the animal community8 Apr 1945 : Future of a ruined Germany As the advance into Germany continues and more and more of the devastation wrought by the Allied bombing planes is laid bare, there are three ...
Jones Long, formerly of Oak Cliff’s Bolsa and Ruins in Deep Ellum, took over the bar program at East Dallas’ Lounge Here earlier this year. She took to her new role with aplomb and creativity, even fashioning faux olives from pickled grapes in her Don Vito, a riff on the classic Go...
I'm heating things up a little in T-Town. They call me 'The Seeker' George Orwell: "There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
5. Eben Holden, Irving Bacheller 6. Janice Meredith, Paul Leicester Ford 7. The Redemption of David Corson, Charles Frederic Goss 8. Richard Carvel, Winston Churchill 9. When Knighthood Was in Flower, Charles Major 10. Alice of Old Vincennes, Maurice Thompson ...