Monthly Archives: August 2008

Del Martin, 1921-2008

By Administrator | Published: Thursday, August 28, 2008
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin From the Associated Press: [Mayor] Newsom ordered American flags at City Hall and the rainbow flag in the Castro District to be flown at half-staff. Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin dies at 87, San Francisco Chronicle
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Isaac Hayes, 1942-2008

By Administrator | Published: Sunday, August 10, 2008
Hayes performing at Wattstax music festival in 1972, introduced by Jesse Jackson. Hayes wanted to be a doctor, but got redirected when he won a talent contest in ninth grade by singing Nat King Cole’s “Looking Back.” –Associated Press Isaac Hayes, 65, a Creator of ’70s Soul Style, Dies
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“It was as if the historical temperature in America went up every month.”

By Administrator | Published: Sunday, August 10, 2008
That’s Norman Mailer writing in 1968 about the Democratic Convention in Chicago. The New York Review of Books has just reissued Mailer’s Miami and the Siege of Chicago; this is a link to my review in Newsday. And here are some excerpts from the book: Nelson Rockefeller’s mouth He had only one flaw—an odd and [...]
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