To The Manner Born

I admit to loving The Fantasticks. I blame that on Jerry Orbach. As a young man he had a face for radio, and a voice few would expect able...

Today would be the birthday of Henry Louis Mencken, sage of Baltimore, social critic and spokesman for the civilized minority, attacker of a...

Born on this date in 1890

Not often enough do I include a woman in the Cool Guy's Club, but today I'll make an exception in order to include today's birt...

from The Gentleman's Slipper by Fiona Dreesmann Celebrating his 73rd today is 3 time World Champion Formula One racer Jackie Stewart, Th...

In the early days of this blog I would periodically raise the question "Where's Dominique?". Everyone seemed to have an onlin...

If you had asked me earlier if I could change anything about my appearance, I would have said I wanted to look like a young Burt Bacharach. ...

Today we celebrate the birthday of National Living Treasure, Mr. Tom Wolfe . If you are unfamiliar with his writing, you are missing a snaps...

Cool Guy. Marco Pierre White Admit it. Until Wednesday night's television show you have never heard of Marco Pierre White. Tony Bourdain...