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Every year March 10th is the Festival of Life in the Cracks Day, celebrating the first signs of spring weather, such as the green sprouts sprouting from cracks in the pavement. It a nice way to honor the rebirth and renewal in life, and see beauty and life everywhere as well. It’s also the birthdayContinue reading “Spring is in 10 days”

March 10, 1876 –It was on this date in 1876 that Alexander Graham Bell (Don Ameche) conducted the first successful experiment on a radical new technology. He put a “transmitter” in one room of his home and a “receiver” in another. He connected them with wire. He then shouted into the mouthpiece of the transmitter,Continue reading “Maybe your teachers didn’t lie to you about this:”

March 10, 1997 – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon and starring Sarah Michelle Geller premiered on WB Television Network on this date. The entire first season was filmed before the first episode went to air, giving them the opportunity to go back and re-shoot various scenes. The scene in the library whereContinue reading “Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered”

March 10, 1978 – TV audiences get to see for the first time, the trials and tribulations of Dr David (and not Bruce) Banner and his travels to find the cure for his gamma ray exposure accident when The Incredible Hulk, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin and Lou Ferrigno, premiered on CBS TV on thisContinue reading “The Incredible Hulk premiered”

ACME‘s favorite sponsor, Raymond Burr’s Nipple Rouge, would like to honor a great American – and wish everyone a very happy and healthy Joe Franklin Day. Perhaps you remembered that last Friday was the 27th annual Shabbat Across America/ Canada, (held once again after being cancelled for a few years due to Covid concerns.) HopefullyContinue reading “You don’t rehearse your dinner conversation.”

March 9, 1979 –ABC-TV aired the documentary Heroes of Rock & Roll, on this date. This was one of the first comprehensive documentaries to be made about rock music.

March 9, 1987 –Island Records release U2’s fifth studio album, The Joshua Tree (the original working title of which was The Two Americas,) on this date. The first two singles, With Or Without You and I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, climb to #1 in America. The Joshua Tree is the band’s best-sellingContinue reading “The Joshua Tree went on sale”

March 9, 1954 –Edward R. Murrow and his CBS news program, See It Now, examined Senator Joseph McCarthy’s record and anti-communist methods on their famous A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy segment on this date. Edward R. Murrow, cigarette smoking, gin guzzling reporter took on the cigarette smoking, whiskey drinking junior senator and demagogue fromContinue reading “Edward R. Murrow Took Down Joseph McCarthy”

March 9, 1967 –The Star Trek episode The Devil in the Dark aired on this date. In it, the Enterprise arrives at Janus VI, where Kirk must deal with a mysterious creature that is destroying machinery and menacing the miners. This episode marks the first and only time an episode begins without the Enterprise orContinue reading “The Devil in the Dark premiered”

March 8, 1994 –Two seminal albums from the ‘90s were released on this date: Soundgarden’s Superunknown and Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral. They enter the albums chart at #1 and #2, respectively.