Author: Amber Frost

That’s a lot of butch in one photo My favorite Hemingway anecdotes always revolve around him being absurdly macho–like when he mocked F. Scott Fitzgerald…

I never want to make too many assumptions about our readers or their workplaces, but I think it’s only fair to give y’all a warning:…

Talking Heads, fresh-faced and downright cherubic. When this song was recorded, Talking Heads were still a three-piece band–keyboardist Jerry Harrison had yet to join–and though…

My original plan for this post was a silly little holiday essay, something to give us a laugh, something flip. I love flip. I excel…

The only feds I’ll ever love… Listen people, you probably know me well enough by now to realize that I’m no austerity hawk! I’m as…

My love of “AM Gold” is well-documented on this blog, and I defend the soft-rock/easy listening genres of the 1970s as an artistic movement of…

By the way, the other woman in this photo is Dorothy Pitman Hughes, an amazing activist who has received neither the press nor the institutional…

Nice body language, Dick. Photo credit: Elliot Erwitt. In 1959, Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev met in Moscow in a highly publicized diplomatic event. The…

A lot of folks are familiar with “Tokyo Rose,” a series of English-speaking female broadcasters who trolled Allied forces during World War 2. The idea…

Not just a potato twice the height of the Rock of Gibralter… a sexy potato twice the height of the Rock of Gibralter You may…