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Historic Photos of Broadway: New York Theater, 1850-1970

With approximately 3 million photographs, the Billy Rose Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is an overwhelming resource for theatrical history. In Historic Photos of Broadway: New York Theater, 1850-1970, Leonard Jacobs, Back Stage's national theatre editor and co-chief theatre critic, makes this mass of memories a bit more manageable and meaningful, selecting 240 works that chronicle the story of Broadway over more than a century's worth of theatre.

Orchestra Baobab

Orchestra Baobab was formed in Senegal 1970. The hand-picked musicians produced a fantastic blend of Cuban and West African rhythms. Changing musical tastes saw the band break up in the late 80s. But Orchestra Baobab reformed in 2001 and recorded an album co-produced by another African music legend, Youssou N'dour. The music is brilliant. And people in Ontario had a rare chance to see the band perform live at Toronto's Harbourfront and the Ottawa Bluesfest in early July.

Cheech and Chong Take Over MySpace

I am a long time fan of Cheech and Chong. Ever since the 1970's I have been watching them and cracking up to their antics. I was just a kid then, but my parents were pretty open minded and let me watch a lot of things I probably shouldn't have been watching, Cheech and Chong was just one of those things. Now they're on MySpace.

Children's gardening programs grow environmental stewards

COLLEGE STATION, TX –- A new generation has come of age since the first celebration of Earth Day in 1970. For this and future generations, environmental awareness is an important and burgeoning point of reference.

Queen Guitarist Brian May Goes Astronomical

May started his research into Zodiacal Light -- the triangular glow visible after sunset in the West and before sunrise in the East -- in 1970, then took a 30-year rock star break. He finished it in 2007 at Imperial College London.

Frost Sparkling on Mars Phoenix Lander Mirror

Phoenix_taletell_3 Mars Phoenix sent home a series of images of frost accumulating on the mirror of the telltale --a four-inch instrument used to sense wind direction and velocity on the lander. Although frost was also seen accumulating on the ground a few days ago, and around rocks during the Viking missions in the 1970’s, this image is striking because of how the frost sparkles on the mirror’s surface.

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