Friday Side Bar: Tribute to George Jones

Austin Food Trucks

“Consider the Fork, A History of How We Cook and Eat,” Bee Wilson

Friday Sidebar: Meteor Explodes over Russa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iCawTYPtehk

Friday Sidebar: Robert Crais

Mr. Crais is the author of the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike suspense novels.  Mr. Crais grew up in Louisiana, on the banks of the Mississippi River.  He’s also written scripts for the television shows, Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey and Miama Vice.  His web page is here.  The First Rule was published in 2010, and is the thirteenth in the Cole/Pike series.  His web page lists them in order.

Friday Sidebar: Star Trek Into Darkness

Earth at Night

New images from a NASA-NOVA satellite reveal the earth at night as never seen before.  Click the photo for more spectacular photos, including an interactive map.

Friday Side Bar: “William Seward, Lincoln’s Indispensable Man,” Walter Stahr

Friday Side Bar: The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power, Robert Caro

Friday Sidebar: Trampled By Turtles

Long week.

Friday Side Bar

British crime writer Phillip Kerr has written s slew of mysteries, set in Germany during and after World War II.  His protagonist sleuth is Bernie Gunther.  You should try to read them in order if you can, but some of them are hard to find in local libraries here.  Here’s a list, in order:

1.March Violets (1989)	2. The Pale Criminal (1990)
3. A German Requiem (1990)	4. The One from the Other (2006)
5. A Quiet Flam (2008)	6. If the Dean Rise Not (2009)
7. Field Gray (2010)	8. Prague Fatale (2011)

Friday Sidebar: The Informationist by Taylor Stevens

The protagonist of this thriller, Vanessa Michael Munroe, is Lisbeth Salander (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) on steroids.  Stevens has a second novel, The Innocent.

 

Friday Sidebar: Boyd’s Blues

The Boyd Lee Dunlop Trio - Boyd Dunlop (piano), Sabu Adeyola (bass), and Virgil Day (drums).

 

Friday Sidebar: “Istanbul Passage” a Novel by Joseph Kanon

Described as a Casablanca-esque espionage thriller by USA Today, it’s 1945, World War II is over but the Cold War is heating up.  Expatriate American businessman Leon Bauer (no relation to Jack as far as I know), who does small time undercover jobs for the Allied Forces, is given one last assignment.  I can attest that you can’t put Joseph Kanon’s latest work down.  It’s full of suspense, double crosses, romance – every page.

 

Friday Side Bar: J.D. McPherson is Playing at This Year’s Minnesota State Fair

A new, irregular, Friday feature, stolen unashamedly from Paul Krugman.  We begin with music but that won’t always be the case.
J.D. McPherson will play at the Heritage at Sundown stage on August 27 & 28.  Check the schedule here.  Performances are free.