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America’s much vaunted Independence Day is still a week away, but we’re dusting off our old Fourth Of July program anyway. This episode holds a special significance for me, and I’m not talking about patriotism. In my brief spoken episode, I offer ambivalent tribute to my state of unemployment at the time. Six years later, [...]

Recently, I’ve been meaning to get some photos of the old Valley National Bank building on the corner of 44th St and Camelback Road here in Phoenix. This year has already seen the demolition of the Washburn Piano Company building on 20th St. and Camelback and the Tempe Geodesic Dome Branch building, on Rural and [...]

Jingle writing legend Steve Karmen is probably best known for such hit songs as “Weekends Were Made For Michelob”, “Hershey, The Great American Chocolate Bar” and “When You Say Budweiser (You’ve Said It All).” In the time since his heyday in the 1970s, Steve has burnished his place in history with several books, including the [...]

Our stamp series has been so wildly popular among Bostworld readers that I couldn’t resist doing one final episode. This time we bring you two empires, one on the wax and one on the wane, along with some of the smaller satellites pulled along in their wake. While the British Empire both celebrates and defends [...]