From New Jersey’s shadowy backcountry trails to the icy highways of Maine, the Northeast boasts more than its fair share of allegedly haunted roads. The post The Most Haunted Roads in the Northeast appeared first on Your AAA Network.| Your AAA Network
In Part 2 of our deep dive into the legacy of LoveSong, Todd and Spun along with Ron & Jerry, explore the period when the band began winding down their collaborative work and moving into solo careers or other callings. We reflect on how each member continued to influence the world musically, spiritually, and culturally […] The post A Love Letter to Love Song pt. II [podcast] appeared first on The Brophisticate.| The Brophisticate
Portland-based artist Mike King has been creating gig posters for bands since the mid 1970s. What began as a means of promoting his own bands’ shows turned into a prolific career. He gets paid now, but to begin he worked “in exchange for tickets to the shows, and for beers”. King has worked on posters … Continue reading "REM, Nirvana and More From ‘America’s Poster Champion’ Mike King" The post REM, Nirvana and More From ‘America’s Poster Champion’ Mike King appeared first...| Flashbak
Beginning in 1979, Camilo José Vergara has been returning year after year to take photographs of Fern Street in Camden, New Jersey. We’ve shared more from his project to create a visual archaeology of the USA with his pictures of Vyse Street in New York City’s South Bronx and 65 East 125th Street in Harlem. Now … Continue reading "The View West Along Fern Street Camden, New Jersey – 1979-2019" The post The View West Along Fern Street Camden, New Jersey – 1979-2019 appeared first o...| Flashbak
Or should I say sub-sub-genre? There’s nothing more American than a movie that showcases both our obsessive car culture and sprawling highway system. In 1956, President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act with the goal of building an interstate highway system that would link all cities (defined as having a population of 50,000 or […]| The Harvest Maid’s Revenge
Left to Right: Maranatha Concerts Live album, Keith Green, Greg Laurie, Sweet Comfort My Real Memoir Mark Twain didn’t say, “The two most important days of your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why.” … Continue reading → The post The Public Debut of Me #2 first appeared on Mitch Teemley.| Mitch Teemley
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times is a 1972 Italian-German giallo horror thriller film directed by Emilio Miraglia [as Emilio P. Miraglia] (The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave) … The post THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES Barbara Bouchet! Sybil Danning! Free online appeared first on MOVIES & MANIA.| MOVIES & MANIA
‘Terror you won’t want to remember – in a film you won’t be able to forget.’ Messiah of Evil is a 1973 horror film about a young woman who goes … The post MESSIAH OF EVIL – Free on Pluto TV, Tubi and YouTube appeared first on MOVIES & MANIA.| MOVIES & MANIA
‘The monster movie’ Prophecy is a 1979 sci-fi horror film about the dangers of industrial pollution. The movie was directed by John Frankenheimer (Seconds; The Manchurian Candidate) from a screenplay … The post PROPHECY Reviews of eco-horror monster movie – free on Pluto TV and YouTube appeared first on MOVIES & MANIA.| MOVIES & MANIA
Satan's School for Girls is an early example of the kitschy titling that would later bring us the likes of Satan’s Cheerleaders, and is one of the few TV movies to have been remade (in 2000, with Shannen Doherty in the lead role). The original stars Pamela Franklin as Elizabeth Sayers, a woman whose sister committed suicide under mysterious circumstances while attending Salem’s School for Girls... The post SATAN’S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ’70s TV movie classic – free online appeared first o...| MOVIES & MANIA
Reading Time: 2minutesINTERVIEW ON THE PRICE OF BUSINESS SHOW, MEDIA PARTNER OF THIS SITE. Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed Phil Magness. On a recent Price of Business, Host Kevin Price visited with Dr. Phil Magness of Read more… The post The Free-Market Revolt Against Trump’s Tariffs appeared first on Daily Business Journal.| Daily Business Journal
Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed? I apologize for the photos of my copies instead of my normal hi-res scans. My scanner died suddenly. Goodbye Dutiful and Dedicated Recorder of the SF Volumes. 1. Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin (1985) From the back cover: “Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always … Continue reading Updates: Recent Science Fiction and Fantasy Purchases No. CCCXLV (Ursula K. Le Guin, Alan Garner, Burt Cole, and a Cyberpunk Anthology)| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Note: My read but “waiting to be reviewed pile” is growing. Short rumination/tangents/impressions are a way to get through the stack before my memory and will fades. My website partially serve…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
How do you define "Beatle"?| GOOD
By Nick Corbo-Stewart, Archivist Travelling back to 1975 the United Kingdom had a very different feel, a population of just over 56 million people, coal fired power stations generating electricity, weekly cash salaries, white sliced bread, families with one car, three TV channels, Tom Baker as Dr Who, flares, Leeds United in the European Cup…Continue reading ➞ Photographic Survey of West Sussex: 50th Anniversary of the European Architectural Heritage Year (EAHY)| West Sussex Record Office
Jack Falat worked as a New Jersey Bell Telephone installer based in Passaic, New Jersey throughout the 1970s. A dedicated photographer, he took pictures around New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. Jack has submitted a number of his terrific pictures on 1970s NYC, and the captions are his. As ever, let’s imagine the … Continue reading "Wildly Wonderful 1970s New York City" The post Wildly Wonderful 1970s New York City appeared first on Flashbak.| Flashbak
Zombi 2 is a 1979 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci (The Beyond; House by the Cemetery; City of the Living Dead)... free on YouTube| MOVIES & MANIA
An exhibition on Lambeth’s council housing between 1965 and 1980 is taking place this month at the Lambeth Archives (16 Brixton Hill, London, SW2 1ET). I’m very pleased to feature this …| Municipal Dreams
It’s sometimes said that we should go back to the tax system of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, with very high rates of tax on the highest earners. We’ve spoken to people who were around at the time – both tax avoiders and HMRC officials – and looked at the data. Our conclusion: the apparently […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the July installment of this column. One of my favorite forms of SF scholarship is careful identification of a intellectual genealogy–tracing what an author read and engaged in dialogue with. Authors are readers. They also can’t escape references and textual traces of what … Continue reading What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXV| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Margo Herr’s cover for the 1st edition 3.75/5 (collated rating: Good) Alien sex dolls. Carpet stain entities constructing love-nests. Underground retirement community entertainment. Jack Dann…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
“Meeting Across the River” routinely lands last when fans rank their Born to Run favorites. But its noir mood was where the country was heading in the mid-1970s.| Clio and the Contemporary
Rob Clayton, Provision – Architecture of the Post-War Consensus (Stay Free Publishing, 2025) ‘Provision’ might seem, at first glance, a …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
A prelude to Jon Dear’s much anticipated Headpress book, No Diggin’ Here, on the history of the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas.| Headpress
I have long meant to read Joan Didion, but didn’t really know what her writing would be like. I knew she wrote about grief in My Year of Magical Thinking, but – despite having read various reviews of her books over| Stuck in a Book
It’s been a busy day, but I finished an audiobook that I borrowed from the library: The Cement Garden (1978) by Ian McEwan. And boy, what a journey that novella is. I don’t have much time today, so we’re going to| Stuck in a Book
Many people have spoken highly of Stella Gibbons’ The Woods in Winter (1970) – including when I ranked her novels. It comes very late in her body of work, though is almost entirely set several decades early than its publication date| Stuck in a Book
In 1966, The Elementary Science Study published a curriculum, Behavior of Mealworms. It provided opportunities for children to engage in many scientific pursuits with readily accessible larval form of a darkling beetle. In 1977, Hal Abelson and Paul Goldenberg of the MIT AI/Logo Laboratory, published a paper, Teacher’s Guide for Computational Models of Animal Behavior. […] The post Mealworms appeared first on The Daily Papert.| The Daily Papert
The book celebrates the 50th anniversary of a seminal paper by Cynthia Solomon and Seymour Papert. Published in 1971, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer, set the course of education for the next fifty years and beyond. I created the new book, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50, to honor the vision set forth by Papert and Solomon a half-century ago. Four dozen experts from around the world invite us to consider the original provocations, reflect on their implementation, and ch...| The Daily Papert
Looking back on the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon and the wider represenation of trans characters in Hollywood. The post Dog Day Afternoon: A Retrospective appeared first on The Culture Sift.| The Culture Sift
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Schizo is a 1976 British slasher horror film produced and directed by Pete Walker from a screenplay written by David McGillivray. Free online| MOVIES & MANIA
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the June installment of this column. I adore teaching American History for college credit. Every summer I ponder what to change and improve. And this year, I want to integrate a few science fiction stories! My 1950s unit in the spring semester could be … Continue reading What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIV| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
3.75/5 (Good) Zoë Fairbairns’ Benefits (1979) charts the struggles of the British women’s liberation movement in a dystopic near future. An anti-feminist fringe political party called FAMILY comes to power, simultaneously proclaiming family values while systematically dismantling the welfare state. Benefits effectively eviscerates governmental doublespeak and champions the need to organize and educate in order … Continue reading Book Review: Zoë Fairbairns’ Benefits (1979)| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Photo of Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke’s Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution (2025) Over the last few years, I have highlighted a smattering of the vast range of spectacular scholarship on sci…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
What did Consumer Guide have to say about American Motors products in the used car market? Here's a vintage view on AMC.| ClassicCars.com Journal
Many moons ago, Native Americans were on the warpath over the use of the offensive name Redskins for a football team. Woke Americans changed it to the Washington Commanders. Now, our long national …| Envisioning The American Dream
‘The pimps and the prostitutes and the body-snatchers. The brothels and the dens of iniquity.’ Burke & Hare is a 1971 British horror film directed by Vernon Sewell (House of Mystery; The …| MOVIES & MANIA
Horror Rises from the Tomb is a 1972 Spanish horror film directed by Carlos Aured. The movie was written by and stars Jacinto Molina.| MOVIES & MANIA
Adios Compañeros is a 1971 Italian spaghetti Western about a lone gunman who tracks down the outlaw gang that killed his friends. Free online| MOVIES & MANIA
Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead is a 1971 Italian Western film steeped in suspense, double-crossing and revenge. Free online.| MOVIES & MANIA
House of the Living Dead is a 1974 South African sci-fi horror film directed by Ray Austin from a screenplay by Marc Marais. Free online.| MOVIES & MANIA
Track of the Moon Beast is a 1976 sci-fi horror film in which a meteor causes a student to transform into a reptilian creature. Free online.| MOVIES & MANIA
Like many of these recipes I cover on my blog, I did not grow up with Tetrazzini. I know I would see it pop up in magazines and across the internet after Thanksgiving as a way to use up those turke…| Quaint Cooking
Scan of the “America On Parade” Booklet from 1975| Starport75
Many years ago, when I first got to meet Quentin Tarantino, my preconception of him as a world renowned film connoisseur was reinforced, and then some. However (and I will get to Cinema Speculation in a... The post Book review: Cinema Speculation appeared first on The Quentin Tarantino Archives.| The Quentin Tarantino Archives
Cinema Speculation is a 2022 non-fiction book by Quentin Tarantino about 70s cinema, which is part of Quentin’s book deal with Harper Collins that also included his novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. As Deadline... The post Quentin Tarantino’s CINEMA SPECULATION arrives November 1 appeared first on The Quentin Tarantino Archives.| The Quentin Tarantino Archives
As Cumberland Terrace’s days wind down, this post will mix old and new material about a complex that sometimes felt lost in time. The Nicest Way From Yonge to Bay for the Holidays Originally …| Jamie Bradburn's Tales of Toronto
Note: My read but “waiting to be reviewed pile” is growing. Short rumination/tangents/impressions are a way to get through the stack before my memory and will fades. My website partially serve…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Piranha 1978 horror movie review, cast and plot overview| MOVIES & MANIA
The Dark is a 1979 sci-fi horror film about someone, or something, on an indiscriminate killing and mutilation spree... free on YouTube| MOVIES & MANIA
Creature from Black Lake is a 1976 American Bigfoot horror film directed by Joy N. Houk Jr. (Night of Bloody Horror... free online| MOVIES & MANIA
Invasion of the Blood Farmers is a 1972 American horror film produced and directed by Ed Adlum... free on YouTube| MOVIES & MANIA
The Incredible Melting Man is a 1977 science fiction horror film about an astronaut whose body begins to melt after he is exposed... review| MOVIES & MANIA
‘Seven Suicides – and they roared back as The Living Dead’ Psychomania is a 1973 British supernatural horror film directed by Don Sharp (The Kiss of the Vampire, Witchcraft, Curse of …| MOVIES & MANIA
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes is a 1973 European Giallo-horror film about a series of murders that occur within a Scottish castle. Review.| MOVIES & MANIA
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a 1973 American television horror film adaptation of Bram Stoker‘s 1897 novel Dracula written by Richard Matheson and produced and directed by Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis …| MOVIES & MANIA
The House with Laughing Windows is a 1976 Italian giallo horror film co-written and directed by Pupi Avati. Plot: Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) arrives in a rural Italian village to restore …| MOVIES & MANIA
From November 2011 through July 2012 I wrote the “Past Pieces of Toronto” column for OpenFile, which explored elements of the city which no longer exist. The following was originally po…| Jamie Bradburn's Tales of Toronto
On a Saturday night filled with the canned laughter of classic comedies like The Jeffersons, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, and Carol Burnett, the October 11 appearance of a live broadcast with irr…| Envisioning The American Dream
Financial Post Magazine, June/July 1970 (published June 27, 1970). In his editor’s note for the June/July 1970 edition of the Financial Post’s recently revamped monthly magazine insert,…| Jamie Bradburn's Tales of Toronto
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Richard J. Golsan— In his interview in Yale French Studies on “The French Seventies,” the philosopher Pascal Bruckner compares the 1970s with our current decade. The 1970s, Bruckner states, was... READ MORE| Yale University Press
The global cooling theory of the 1970s, now debunked, once had scientists and the public fearing a new ice age. Discover why this theory emerged and how it was disproven.| Historic Mysteries
The Pick of the Day is a 1972 Buick Riviera boattail listed by a Huntsville, Alabama dealership on ClassicCars.com.| ClassicCars.com Journal
If you’re a Generation X’er (or older), you may remember that golden age of horror during the 1970s and 1980s, when cheesy paperbacks with titles in red metallic fonts and lurid cover a…| Shannon Turlington
We know that Alan Ball, writer of “American Beauty” and creator of “Six Feet Under,” is interested in repressed homosexuality and death. Both are front and center in Ball’s “Uncle Frank,” set in North Carolina in the 1970s with Paul Bettany as the title character, an NYU college professor who is not out to his […]| EricDSnider.com
