Obituary: Bobby Unser, Three-Time Indy 500 Winner (87)

Photo: Bobby Unser’s victories in the Indianapolis 500 came in three different decades — in 1968, 1975 and 1981. And he overcame a fear of heights to capture the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb 13 times, a record.Credit… ISC Images & […]

See How the Internet Archive Has Digitized More than 250,000 78 R.P.M. Records

 04 May 2021 | Open Culture (original link) In the history of recorded music, no medium has demonstrated quite the staying power of the phonograph record. Hearing those words, most of us envision a twelve-inch disc designed to play at 33 1⁄3 […]

Some US states offering ‘incentives’ to take covid vaccination

Photo: Joints for Jabs was held in New York in Union Square. Free joints were distributed to people who could prove they had received a coronavirus vaccine.Credit…Julia Gillard for The New York Times 03 May 2021 |  Neil Vigdor | […]

Lucinda Williams says she is recovering from a stroke

Click below to hear I Envy the Wind from Essence, which I think is not only her best album but one of the best contemporary albums ever. JP 03 May 2021 | Joseph Hudak | Rolling Stone (original link) A […]