"Boardwalk Empire," HBO's Prohibition drama returned Sunday night after a year of critical acclaim and sweeping several awards...

... WILL IT BE THIS?? or THIS??? Decisions... Decisions... Tweet

Press play for some groovy mood music I tended bar at Tony's Tap Room up on Biltmore Avenue. The gig was good enough and while I wasn...

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Press play for some mood music Aggie slipped into Nunzio's Tavern at about half past ten. The bar was one of those dark daytime ...

Listen to the title track from Tom Waits’ upcoming album "Bad As Me," due in stores on Oct. 25. on limited edition deluxe CD, CD...

Press play for some mood music Havana, 1953. I told her there was nothing worse than waiting for the hurricane. And this phone cal...

Please press play for some mood music Root Riley hitched all the way from Socorro, New Mexico. Root was good at beatin' the d...

Charles Bukowski -- The namesake of this blog -- would have turned 91 today... Enjoy these two audio readings of his poems and pour yourself...

I'm a sucker for writer documentaries and I'll be the first to admit that I can't get enough of them. I'm compelled to...

Next on my reading list and released about two weeks ago. Via AMAZON: Tom Waits, even with his barnyard growl and urban hipster yawp, ma...

Philip Levine , the Pulitzer-Prize winner known for his brooding and personal verse about the working class, will be the country's new...

... That I've posted in celebration of her 100th birthday. Here's the scoop: The Big Street is a 1942 American drama film, starring ...

Press play for some mood music Patsy was born under a bad sign. That was painfully obvious. His mother, a runaway, gave birth to him near a...