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At 83, the guitarist Happy Traum is remarkably youthful—still playing concerts & teaching. Here is a retrospective of his life in music as captured by 6 songs. 

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Its not poetry, its not comedy, its not just spoken word; its the unique "Word Jazz" world populated only by the late Ken Nordine.

If you know Kitty Kallen at all, it probably is subliminally. Her 1945 number one hit recording of “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” plays during the closing credits of “Avengers: Endgame.” A few years earlier, her 1954 number one hit “Little Things Mean a Lot” served as the musical motif for “Circle of Friends” (the movie in which Minnie Driver has a crush on Chris O’Donnell’s character). A newly published screenplay, “Little Things Mean ...

Blockchain has long ceased to be the domain of tech geeks and enigmatic crypto traders that can recite Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper by heart, enchanting the public imagination with its promise to disrupt industries from peer-to-peer payments to identity verification. It is hard to think of an industry more in need of disruption than that of cross-border payments. While sending money to a local recipient is a matter of searching for their Venmo nickname and coming up with a clever message to...

Bronx Irish Catholic By Peter Quinn, Contributor In the 1950s, the Bronx was a melting pot of immigrants and first-generation families: Jewish, Italian, and Irish alike. Peter Quinn shares his story of what it was like to be a Bronx Irish Catholic, commonly referred to as a B.I.C. ℘℘℘ “Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native land! / Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, / As home his footsteps he hath turn’d…�...