I once was on the editorial staff of an alt-weekly that was then proudly independent, later was purchased by Village Voice Media, and two years ago was sold to the publisher of the local daily. Not only will these print weeklies be missed as training grounds for young journalists who don't mind not getting paid much,…

Whole decade? Not if you count the animated series that premiered in fall 1973.

Rather than multi-cam, I'd want any new Jetsons half-hour to be a single-camera series with no laugh track.

First of all, this article was published in an open-access journal, which means that the authors had to pay for publication (even though their work was ostensibly peer-reviewed). Whether a paper published in this manner is more likely to have methodological flaws is a matter of debate, but I don't see why the topic of…

The photos I saw are of a Dodge Challenger (a coupe), not a Charger (4-door sedan, most often a police cruiser). They're much the same underneath, however.

The Klingons appear only in the first scene of TMP. What was more notable (among fans in 1979) wasn't the new Klingon makeup, or the fact that they didn't speak English; rather, it was that the main Klingon was played by Mark Lenard (who had already played a Romulan commander in an early episode and Spock's father…

Not to mention Susan Howard (later of Dallas fame) as Mara, the only female Klingon seen during the original series, in a fall 1968 episode.

The answer to #1 included this: "…The Boys in the Band, the film of the Matt Crowley play…" It's Mart, not Matt. I don't expect that Dan Savage got this wrong, so was this an error in transcription? Or was it transcribed correctly but then "corrected" later by someone who assumed Matt was correct? Just curious.

Maybe they're going to take the approach that Philip K. Dick took in Our Friends from Frolix 8, wherein…

I don't think anyone's mentioned Between the Lines, Janis Ian's 1975 album. Can't believe I forgot it earlier.

I know both albums very well, and although I think they're both great and enduring, they can't really be compared to each other musically. The production on Blue is so transparent as to be almost undetectable, versus the density of Court & Spark - with For the Roses an intermediate step along the way (kudos to Henry…

The full-band arrangement of "Carey" on Miles of Aisles is one the biggest self-inflicted injuries of Joni's career, as far as I'm concerned. (Maybe it was Tom Scott's arrangement, but she must have approved of it.)

There were three albums of standards with arrangements by Nelson Riddle, not just one. The second and third ones were Lush Life and For Sentimental Reasons. Check out the exquisite electric guitar backing on the first track of Lush Life, "When I Fall in Love."
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I think in my case I prefer the more obscure, devil-oriented lyrics of "Luckie" or "Lu" (the essential first two tracks of Eli) over the more clearcut writing (e.g., "Jesus was an angel and mankind broke his wings") found on Tendaberry. The music's equally good, sure.

"Joni is her own best interpreter"? Generally I agree, but a good argument might be made in favor of Tom Rush's version of "Urge for Going."

Does "late '70s" include 1975? I think your first sentence applies equally well to The Hissing of Summer Lawns, an album I've happily lived without. I do have Don Juan's Reckless Daughter but my favorite track on that one is (what I believe to be) her final studio track accompanying herself on guitar alone, "The Silky…

No Waitresses?

I have been a Star Trek fan since a very tender age (1968, third-season premiere "Spock's Brain") and have no damn interest in Discovery - orders of magnitude less than I'd need to actually pay for it - and the more I think about it, I realize it's all the advance publicity. It would be better if this were still the…

In the original series, fixed dates are indeed fudged by using Stardates - deliberately chosen as a means of avoiding relativity problems - but there are still occasional mentions of elapsed time in (presumably) Earth years. In Wrath of Khan, Kirk explicitly states that he hasn't seen Khan in 15 years (which conforms…

In addition to errors, there have been discontinuities that are deliberate (such as the one between the first and second original-cast movies).