by Bill Dal Cerro | Dec 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
[It doesn’t happen often, but I’ve been on a roll this month with my observations on jazz man Vince Guaraldi and the Peanuts franchise. My last blog on the subject made it to the San Francisco Chronicle. This week the Chicago suburb newspaper Daily Herald printed my...
by Rosario Iaconis | Dec 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
America’s debts—Revolutionary and Republican—to Rome resonate 250 years after Washington’s crossing of the Delaware. To paraphrase Monty Python, “What have the Romans ever done for the American Revolution?” On the night of December 25, 1776, in the midst of a fierce...
by John Mancini | Dec 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Salvatore Guaragna, Master of Melodies He had more songs on radio’s Your Hit Parade than Irving Berlin (42 vs. 33). During his long career he wrote 500 songs, scored 300 movies, and even scored 100 of the animated Looney Tunes we watched as kids. He won...
by John Mancini | Dec 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Marconi pioneered wi-fi December was a lucky month for inventor Guglielmo Marconi. On 12 December 1901 he proved that wireless transmission—what we call Wi-Fi today—was possible across long distances. What’s more, he demonstrated that despite the curvature...
by John Mancini | Dec 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
There are only two feature films that reflect negatively on Somalis: Black Hawk Down and Captain Phillips. The former deals with the U.S. involvement in a Somalia civil war (1992), the latter about Somali pirates hijacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea in...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Dec 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
It happened just last week: A few days before Thanksgiving, I was in a department store, looking for some early Christmas gift items, when I suddenly thought: “It doesn’t feel like Christmas yet.” And it didn’t. Temperatures in Chicago were...
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