LA County Fire Department Station 127 is been dedicated to Robert A. Cinader, who was the creator and producer of Emergency!1 (as well as work on Adam-12 and Dragnet). While we take paramedics for granted today, they...
Created in 1905 and, currently, containing over 500,000 items spread over 12,000 square meters (just under 130,000 sq. feet), the Musee de l’Armee in Paris is gargantuan. Its collections are separated over historical periods,...
About 15 miles west of Winslow, Arizona, you turn off at the aptly named Meteor Crater Road exit. Nothing is here, save a large and friendly service station, too big for something this close...
Antonio Prohias was the most celebrated cartoonist in Cuba, winner of multiple awards, and especially known for his biting political cartoons. In 1959, Fidel Castro honored Prohias personally, but by 1960, Castro had himself...
A few weeks ago, a friend who had never been to New York was coming to the city on business, but only very briefly. With just a three hour window open in his schedule,...
I was down in Red Bank, NJ over the weekend and took the opportunity to make a pilgrimage to the Quick Stop market from Kevin Smith‘s Clerks. It’s one of my old-school favorites, the...
In 1984, George Lucas expanded his empire, and the Lucasfilm Games brand launched by releasing two games. Rescue on Fractalus! was a first-person flight-rescue simulation, similar to Choplifter. It certainly was a fun game,...
Before he became a universally-accaimmed game designer, Sid Meier was just a recent computer science graduate from the University of Michigan. All-be-it, one who could beat the crap out of an actual retired Air Force pilot, Bill...
