The Quick 10: The Beatles’ Ed Sullivan Debut
As a big Beatles fan, I sure wish I was there 46 years ago when the Fab Four appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. Since we haven’t quite worked out that whole time travel thing yet, I’ll have to content myself (and you!) with trivia.
1. Although appearing on Sullivan was [...]
The Late Movies: 9 Low-Budget “Classic Alternative” Music Videos
I grew up watching 120 Minutes, an MTV show that aired starting at midnight on Sunday night. This made waking up for school on Monday morning hard, but at least I got to catch the newest “alternative” videos (The Cure, The Replacements, The Breeders, that sort of thing) which rarely aired in the normal MTV [...]
The World’s Largest Chocolate Fountain
Photo: John Locher
In 2005, pastry chef Jean-Philippe Maury created this enormous 25-tiered chocolate fountain for the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas. It’s 27 feet tall and circulates 120 quarts of chocolate per minute:
It wasn’t, you see, quite as simple as constructing a waterfall.
“Water doesn’t change,” Maury said. “Chocolate is complicated.”
It must [...]
