The Rap Sheet

It was 75 years ago today that Casablanca , the classic film (and World War II propaganda picture ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid B...

• As Connecticut’s Harford Courant tells it , “The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature award will be given to author Bill Beverly for h...

• Florida thriller writer Lisa Unger has come up with a way to raise money for Hurricane Irma victims in South Florida, Texas’ Houston area...

Here’s an occasion I surely would have forgotten, had it not been for this note on the Web site Television Obscurities: Today marks the 50...

National Public Radio’s All Things Considered program noted this afternoon that “The U.S. entered [World War I] a century ago, on April 6,...

Today marks 100 years since the birth, on April 5, 1917, of Robert Bloch , the American novelist and inveterate punster remembered for penni...

Elizabeth Short shown at age 19 in a police photo, taken in 1943 after she was arrested in Santa Barbara, California, for underage drinking...