This week commemorates the 40th anniversary of the legendary Stonewall riots.  Let's travel back in time for a moment to New York in the 1960's.  We assume there have always been gay bars, but they didn't exist as they do now; in the 60's they were places where police could safely raid and beat patrons with little fear of retaliatory or legal action.  The majority of these bars were owned by the mafia who paid police off to warn barkeepers of impending raids; so most of the time, bars' patrons could be warned in advance of a raid and pretend they were "straight" until the police left.  In the 60's raiding gay bars and harassing, beating, mocking, arresting, and stealing from their patrons was commonplace.

Don Coldsmith, a family physician who gained worldwide fame with a series of historical novels on Plains Indians, has died. He was 83.  Read his popular Spanish bit saga or his biographies Horsin' Around and Still Horsin' Around.

Michael Jackson's unique blend of soul, funk and rock made him...

If you like romantic comedies and sports comedies, you will probably enjoy the complete first season of My Boys on DVD.

The half-hour sitcom features P.J. Franklin, a spunky tomboy sports writer for the Chicago Cubs, and a group of guy friends that includes her longtime best friend and former...

Brooklyn-based Grizzly Bear's latest album, Veckatimest, is a meticulously well-crafted, densely layered, fantastic new album AND your library has ordered it!

If you haven't heard Grizzly Bear, check out the hypnotic and kinda creepy video for the first single off the album, "Two Weeks," and see what you think.

The French Resistance. An exotic location. A sultry dame. A piano. And a tough-talking Humphrey Bogart.  Not the all-time favorite Casablanca, but that other classic, To Have and Have Not.