Degrees of separation: I, too, found the cover of your January 13 issue offensive. I hadn’t bothered to write because I didn’t think the piece associated with it was written well enough to bother complaining about (KC Strip, “Stork Club”). Further contemplation has changed my mind. In case you haven’t noticed, the other side is winning the cultural war these…
Jimmy the Fetus Hey, kids, Jimmy the Fetus here, your guide to moral values in the Midwest, helping everyone see that what we learned in Sunday school really does matter. Dear Jimmy: A friend of mine was talking about some study in the news that said religion is “in the jeans,” and I wasn’t sure what she was talking about….
John Holway remembers the interview he did with James “Joe” Greene. It had to be around 1970. It was summertime. They sat on the screened-in porch outside Greene’s suburban home in Stone Mountain, Georgia, with Holway’s reel-to-reel tape recorder running. Greene wasn’t a classic storyteller like Satchel Paige or some of the other Negro Leagues players. He just recounted,…
