Burtons Cut The Cord In Time For NFL Games

by Kevin Burton    Imagine you went to the grocery store and instead of selecting the vegetables you wanted, you had to sign up for a “vegetable package.”     So, you can’t get fresh green beans unless you also take artichoke, leeks and rutabaga.  “Hey that’s the package, that’s how we sell it, take it …

Reality Intrudes Upon Laverne And Shirley

by Kevin Burton    Shame on me for this, but there was a time when I believed every word of the song from Laverne and Shirley.   That show ran from 1976 to 1983 on ABC. It was a big hit for its first few years, a spinoff from the very popular “Happy Days.” It …

The Sounds They Were A-Changin’

by Kevin Burton    Musical eras, like chocolate bars or ice cubes, are fluid before they are solid, shaped by the temperature of the times.    We can’t always distinguish them day to day. Historians declare them later, according to their differing standards.   But for me there is something momentous about looking at the …