We will begin this month’s tour of astronomical happenings with the planets visible in the south-southwest and southwestern sky at dusk.  The brightest is Venus (magnitude – …

The old saw, ‘there are no accidents,’ came from . . . whom?  We all seem to use this phrase but have you ever wondered where it came from?  Famous quotes tend to get corrupted, rearranged, and …

     Could it be that I am slipping?  Scanning the FTV titles for the past ten months, I realized the entire year was about to pass without me writing about a drummer!  How could this be?  It …

       In one of the earlier segments of The Simpsons Tree House of Horrors, they do an extremely funny lampooning of The Shining (the Jack Nicholson version, only here called The Shinning).…

       We recently received a CD entitled Brewed In Buffalo by a guitar / organ / drum trio called Organ Fairchild.  I am betting the title might give you a hint as to where they hail from.…

       We begin our look at November with Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn.  Venus continues to dominate the SW sky at dusk.  With the period of twilight lengthening throughout the fall, Venus w…