So, we’ll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, […]
So we’ll go no more a roving…
S&R Honors: Terry Jones
Gavin Chait Terry Jones: Monty Python star dies aged 77 Cat White NOOOOOOOO! Now there was a Scrogue.
7’2″ and wise beyond measure: S&R Honors Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“A culture can admire both the physical and intellectual.” An intellectual. That’s a word that often conjures up an adjective – effete, thanks to Nixon’s former vice president. Intellectual is a word […]
Scholars & Rogues Honors Our 100th Scrogue: Leonardo Da Vinci
Writers, artists, journalists, educators, historians, scientists, engineers … and dreamers of every stripe – all have reason to revere the legacy of the archetypal Renaissance Man. S&R is proud to honor Leonardo […]
S&R Honors: Claude Monet
Claude Monet was born with the gift of seeing things new and without any necessary devotion to denotation. Yet in later life, he saw almost nothing. What filtered through the cataracts – […]
S&R Honors: Stephen Hawking
We recently lost one of the greatest minds on the planet when physicist Stephen Hawking died at age 76. Much has been written about the man’s accomplishments, and I suspect this will […]
S&R Honors: Colin Kaepernick
Justice. Fairness. Sacrifice. Service. Humility. Aren’t these qualities on which we Americans pride ourselves? Few people were more in the news in 2017 than former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the […]
Tom Petty…anything that’s rock and roll’s fine….
Out of a catalogue of superb music, all of which I like a lot, most of which I love deeply, “Anything That’s Rock and Roll” is still my favorite. “It’s sort of […]
Walter Becker: every word was true… (S&R Honors)
Walter Becker and his partner Donald Fagen created some of rock’s darkest music, giving voice to the disenchanted, the cynical, those who, to paraphrase, want a name when they lose. “All night […]
Vivian Maier was a stealthy street-camera recon patrol (S&R Honors)
Unknown, unpublished in life, photography icon is now enjoying a post-mortem renaissance… Vivian Maier shot up the streets of Chicago, but no one ever called the police nor filed any kind of […]
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