Music | Music

CRITICAL MASS: Gone for 50 years — The Rolling Stones was Brian Jones' band

You might dispute that. You might point out that little Keith Richards and Michael Jagger rode tricycles together until Jagger's family moved the five miles from Dartford to Wilmington, Kent in 1954.

When I was a kid, many years after he left the band, Brian Jones was my favorite Stone and he was absolutely the leader of the band.

Music | Music

The Best Rolling Stones Songs That Don’t Really Sound Like the Rolling Stones | Pitchfork

Ten times they transcended their blues-rock traditions

Great list of deeper Stones’ tracks not ruined by endless plays on rock stations. For the most part.

Music | Music

Rolling Stones make triumphant return following Jagger's reported surgery

CHICAGO - For anyone who ever doubted Mick Jagger was superhuman, the Rolling Stones’ Soldier Field show Friday would make you a believer.

Music | Music

The Rolling Stones on How They Craft the Perfect Set List

What’s Keith’s favorite show-opener? Why doesn’t Mick like playing “Beast of Burden?” The band shares how they plan a gig ahead of their U.S. tour launch

The guys are back on tour baby!

Music | Music

20 Photos of Frank Sinatra Looking Cool, Drinking Coffee

The Chairman of the Board loved a cup of joe. 

Frank, always cool. Plus: coffee!

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

R.I.P. David Hedison, captain on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and ally of James Bond

The actor also starred in the horror classic 'The Fly.' He was 92.

I always liked him, another sad loss.

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

Kurt Russell Says Starring in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Brought Him Back to His Youth

Kurt Russell Says Once Upon a Time In Hollywood Brought Him Back to His Youth

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

Quentin Tarantino Picks 10 Films to See Before ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’

From "Easy Rider" to "The Wrecking Crew," Tarantino singles out some of the 1960 classics that inspired him to make "Hollywood."

Have I mentioned that I can’t wait to see “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”? This is a good list. I know because I’ve seen most of them. And may own a couple.

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

WATCH: “Captain America” as a Mossad Agent | Israellycool

Actor Chris Evans in The Red Sea Diving Resort, a drama revolving around the amazing rescue and transport of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1981.

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: Everything we know so far

Here's what Quentin Tarantino has said about his latest film starring Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie.

Business & Finance | Startups

4 Fast Ways to Fund Your Business (Without Venture Capital) | Inc.

Avoid raising money from venture capital firms with these four fast and effective alternatives to fundraising.

Business & Finance | Startups

5 come-back tips for startups that have run out of cash | VentureBeat

My team encountered every startup’s worst nightmare: We ran out of money. But we were able to survive and are now thriving. Here's how.

Business & Finance | Startups

While Every Startup Doesn't Need a Business Plan, Every Startup Does Need This | Inc.

You have an idea for a startup. But do you need a comprehensive strategy and plan?

Logos are deceptively simple. We worked on our for months. Many many many months ;-)

Business & Finance | Startups

To Succeed at Business You Need a Startup Mindset

Scalability, innovation and disruption come at a high cost.

Business & Finance | Startups

Pitching your product will kill your fundraising | TechCrunch

Hint: investors want to know why you are the team to build your product now, and more data from DocSend.

Politics | Politics

Can Ilhan Omar Overcome Her Prejudice? - WSJ

I was born in Somalia and grew up amid pervasive Muslim anti-Semitism. Hate is hard to unlearn without coming to terms with how you learned it.

Politics | Politics

Top 9 presidential primary debate moments in US history

As the road to 2020 heats up, here are some of the most memorable moments from past primary debates – ranging from Ronald Reagan and the Clintons to Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Politics | Politics

MENKEN: AOC Is Dividing Americans And Inciting Anti-Semitism

After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) used “concentration camps” and “Never Again” together — a unique reference to the Nazi death camps — and then retweeted leftist Jews hoping to justify the linkage while she simultaneously denied that she ever connected them in the first instance, I honestly thought it couldn’t get worse.

Do people even comprehend why so many of us take this so seriously? Jews, especially over the past few years, have been subjected continually to a rising barrage of antisemitism, physical attacks, an anti-Israel movement that uses propaganda to increasingly mainstream the lie that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, and a never ending exploitation of OUR history to legitimize any number of political agendas. The reason why the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Yad Vashem, the Auschwitz Museum & the US Holocaust Museum stepped in is because hijacking the language of the Holocaust has been a tool of Holocaust deniers for a very long time. So whether people defending "AOC" understand this or not, there is NO valid use of Holocaust imagery absent literal genocide. That is exactly why no one had a problem applying Holocaust imagery to Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia etc., however applying that imagery to detention centers run by the United States, only serves to trivialize the absolute nightmare of genocide.

AOC knows this, so does Ilhan Omar. The fact that some Jews, unfortunately, agree with them is a sign of their own devotion to ideology or ignorance of the Holocaust, and our own history (unfortunately, neither is unusual), NOT evidence of authority on the subject. Being born Jewish, or having relatives murdered during WWII, does not automatically imbue you with an authoritative understanding of the Shoah or anything else. Legitimate criticism of the border situation deserves a serious public discussion, you can do that without appropriating the worst genocide in human history, and more importantly, without exploiting the memory of its victims.

Politics | Politics

Concentration Camps? Stop Hijacking Jewish History | The Jerusalem post

US media has now joined the debate about concentration camps.

“The agenda in the US is clear: in order to critique the current administration’s policy, a term often associated with Auschwitz and the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust has been appropriated to score a few political points. In a few months there will be a new controversy, and Jewish history will be hijacked again in a US debate to fit the narrative of whatever group needs to conjure up the Nazi era for their own benefit.

Increasingly in the US every day, the Holocaust is watered down and universalized in order to become an American event. Last year the former National Security Agency and CIA head Michael Hayden compared the US separating families at the border to Auschwitz.”

Politics | Politics

Missing Charles Krauthammer

A posthumous collection edited by his son Daniel clarifies the great columnist's legacy to American, and to Jewish, discourse.

If I had a topic on my page named "Genius" it could have just as easily been called "Charles Krauthammer."

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

Forget Self-Driving Cars. Bring Back the Stick Shift.

Technology meant to save us from distraction is making us less attentive.

Reps men drive a stick. Or at least know how. Same with cool women.

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

Remember When You Could Call the Time?

You still can, and thousands of people do it every day.

I used to love calling the Time Lady! It was a big deal when I was a kid. It seemed so adult. So this is very cool AND there is a YouTube video embedded with the Time Lady’s voice which in hasn’t heard in decades. Someone needs to bring her back-but the other old timey number here is also extremely cool. Now you will always know what the old school time is!

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

Billy Dee Williams Issues Weather Warning to Star Wars Fans: 'Don't Forget Your Cape’

You heard Lando.

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

10 Turkey Myths, Debunked

Let's talk turkey—specifically, turkey myths.

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

82 Restaurants That Give You Free Food on Your Birthday

Keep those emails comin'.

Fres stuff!

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

The Case Study houses that made Los Angeles a modernist mecca

These homes helped to define modern architecture.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

The grooviest bachelor pad in Chicago modeled its kitchen after The Brady Bunch

The only thing missing is Alice!

When I was younger I used to want to be rich so that I could build a replica of the Brady Bunch house. This guy, partially, did it. It's not exact, but it evokes the era and it's still very cool in that mid-century way.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

The Vanishing World of Neon Motel Signs - Atlas Obscura

A photographer has spent decades capturing these symbols of Americana and the open road.

I love these old signs. Many years ago, before everyone had a camera on their phone, I wanted to put together a coffee table book about old neon signs. That was in the '90s. It is very sad to watch the rapidity with which these signs are disappearing. It was/is an endemic part of Americana. Worse, their replacements are the boring, generic, sameness of the typical 21st century roadside experience, which has replaced style with monotony. Not just hotel signs either, but all signage. Have you seen Las Vegas lately? It looks a lot more like any other new urban environment than Las Vegas. It's just another symbol of the current American desire to replace individualism with conformity.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Don the Beachcomber to close Sunday in Sunset Beach; new location being sought

Renowned tiki restaurant Don the Beachcomber will close Sunday night after nearly 10 years at its Sunset Beach location, the restaurant announced Friday.

Southern California is intent on becoming nothing but a soulless land of giant steel and glass boxes.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

The legacy of ‘Mad Men’ won’t be its clothes or its cocktails. It’ll be all that modernist furniture.

How “Mad Men” has influenced our tastes in design.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

WATCH: Paul Anka in Israel: I Told BDS to F*** Off! | Israellycool

Legendary American crooner Paul Anka is performing in Israel tonight. Ahead of the show, he was interviewed by Israeli television.

Yeah he did. I saw him here in L.A. this Spring and he was phenomenally good. Not “for his age.” Just good. He seemed like a nice guy. Now I KNOW I like him!

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

OMG, Just Shut Up: An Open Letter to Linda Sarsour | Jewish Journal

Dear Linda Sarsour, This is an appeal to you on behalf of the Jewish community for you to stop speaking for us, about us or to us.  I know you’ve ignored

The single best article I have ever read about Sarsour & why her brand of antisemitism is so insidious. The same type of nouveau Jew hatred wielded every single day by the people who promote BDS.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

FINALLY: Twitter Says 2018 Tweet in Which Farrakhan Compared Jews to Termites Violates New Rules

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Photo: Reuters / Rebecca Cook. Twitter on Tuesday said it was requiring Nation of …

It's way past time for this to happen. Farrakhan is a pig.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

The Long Legacy of the Shoah in Scandinavia – Tablet Magazine

Within the Northern European countries that make up Scandinavia there has been a revival of active scholarship and popular interest into the treatment of Jews during World War II. The subject is very much alive in these countries and much more so than in

This is fascinating, although I am disappointed that the story of the Danish King confronting the Nazis is basically not true. The bottom line is that if other occupied countries had acted differently: millions more of us would have survived. The stories of Denmark and Sweden, but not Norway, name that clear.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

The real Birthright: Inheriting our Jewish story | The Jerusalem post

These sleights of hands and oversights rest on a bigger distortion – the barrage of claims that young American Jews are abandoning Israel.

Science & Technology | Science & Space

How going to the Moon changed the universe—back on Earth

What we get wrong about Apollo.

Science & Technology | Science & Space

The birth of the electronic beep: The story behind the sound that rules our lives.

The story behind the sound that rules our lives.

Science & Technology | Science & Space

Why the Moon landing matters, 50 years later

We owe our current digital age to the 1960s Space Race. What will today’s Space Race herald for the future?

Science & Technology | Science & Space

Michael Collins Is the Forgotten Astronaut of Apollo 11. He's Perfectly Fine With That.

Michael Collins orbited the moon on July 20, 1969, while his colleagues, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on it.

Science & Technology | Science & Space

Would we have landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, if JFK had lived?

JFK’s private conversations and public statements in his last year as president crackle with high-stakes gamesmanship and Cold War intrigue.

News | News

Al Jazeera’s Disgraceful Holocaust-Denying Video Showcases Qatari Evil For All To See

Over the weekend, Qatari regime propaganda outfit Al Jazeera published and subsequently took down an unfathomably anti-Semitic video that questioned the number of Jews murdered by the Thir

I've been arguing for a decade that Al Jazeera isn't a legitimate news site, yet millions of Americans are deluded into believing what they are seeing is new, when the reality is that they are an antisemitic, Holocaust denying, pro-Islamist rag that is the state news of Qatar. That didn't stop Ilhan Omar from quoting AL Jazeera the day after they did this, of course.

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President Trump hosts Oval Office celebration for 4 World War II vets - U.S. - Stripes

President Donald Trump treated four World War II veterans to an Oval Office meeting Thursday, fulfilling a birthday wish for 95-year-old Allen Jones and giving three other veterans age 100 and older a day to remember.

I love this story. I especially like that one of the men is visiting all 50 states so that people can meet a WWII vet because, and this isn't in the story, he regretted not meeting a Civil War vet when he had the chance. We're a young country. Most people don't realize that just a few lifetimes separate us from our nation's founding.

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How Southern Cal athletics got caught in college admissions scandal

Admissions consultant William Singer allegedly worked with USC senior associate athletic director to get students admitted as walk-on athletes.

I worked hard to get into USC. As an alumnus I noticed years ago that the entire idea of the "Trojan family" is a marketing ploy and a lie. In my case, I had serious concerns about professors at the school, antisemitism, and Holocaust denial. SC literally wouldn't even meet with me to discuss these issues. They ignored dozens of calls and emails. They are frauds. I am assuming that it is the same at all of these schools: MONEY is all that matters. for them.

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Holocaust Knowledge Gap Is Global Crisis

A new study finds that almost half of Canadian adults (49%) could not identify a single Nazi camp or ghetto, while a majority (54%) of Canadian adults and more than 6-in-10 Canadians under thirty-five did not know that 6 million Jews were murdered during

Let’s be honest about this, much, not all, of the ignorance stems from antipathy to the Jewish people and the Arab world’s concerted effort to make Holocaust denial mainstream (even mainstream universities like my alma mater, USC, have normalized it).

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CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill

CNN severed ties with contributor Marc Lamont Hill on Thursday, following comments the university professor made about Israel and Palestine in a speech at the

Good. He absolutely deserves this. He is a scumbag, as are his defenders.