Today is the 108th birthday of the musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe. More than forty years after her death, she is finally getting the recognition she

Today is the 108th birthday of the musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe. More than forty years after her death, she is finally getting the recognition she
Today is the 101st birthday of the entertainment legend Carl Reiner. He was brilliant. The world is a better place because he was in it
Today is the 95th birthday of Mr. Rogers. He was the kindest, most gentle adult that kids my age ever knew. He spoke to us
Today is the 195th birthday of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. His plays are performed all over the world to this day and are considered
Forty-six years ago today, the American surrealist horror film Eraserhead premiered at the Filmex film festival in Los Angeles. On its opening night, the film
Today is the 121st birthday of the artist William H. Johnson. His primitive style of painting African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance has become the
Today is the 95th birthday of the composer John Kander. His songs and soundtracks are some of the post popular and immediately recognizable pieces of
Fifty-one years ago today, the film Pink Flamingos premiered. The first time I saw it was on VHS in my living room after high school
Today is the 54th birthday of the fashion designer Alexander McQueen. He was a visionary, an artist, ahead of his time, and perhaps from another
Today is the 84th birthday of the Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev. His strength and grace are unparalleled. The world is a better
Today is the 106th birthday of the American singer, jazz pianist, and actor Nat King Cole. The world is a better place because he was
Thirty-two years ago today, the book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture was published. It gave a generation their identity and their label, even