A Brief History Gothic romance fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see The Bride! on Tuesday, March 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM at Phoenix Theatre Great Northern Mall Stadium 10 + RPX, 450 Great Northern Mall, North Olmsted, OH 44070! For your chance to get a pair of passes, please go to http://wbtickets.com/BRIDEHISTORYH3. Passes are first-come, first-serve. The theater is overbooked slightly to ensure a full audience. Therefore, seating is not guaranteed. So, please arrive early! Saving seats for other parties is prohibited. Digging Deeper From Maggie Gyllenhaal (Academy Award-nominated writer/director of The…
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A Brief History On March 31, 1995, American singer and “Queen of Tejano Music,” Selena, was murdered, incredibly by the president of her fan club! The bad fan had as part of her fan club duties the responsibility for managing income from club dues, merchandise, and other Selena income, money that she was embezzling. Soon after the thefts were discovered, the fan gone bad shot Selena to death at the age of 23. Digging Deeper It may be nice at times to have loyal fans, but some fans go too far. Some examples of fans going overboard include: John Lennon,…
A Brief History On March 29, 1951, Copenhagen, Denmark was the scene of one of the most bizarre bank robberies ever, a robbery that cost two people their lives! Digging Deeper Investigators later reconstructed the crime, with the two robbers probably sharing a jail cell after being convicted of treason during World War II. In prison they developed an interest in hypnosis and Asian mysticism. One ex-con allegedly hypnotized the other to rob a bank, and in the process killed a teller and the bank manager. The robber fled by bicycle but was soon captured. The hypnotist half of the…
A Brief History On March 28, 1910, aviation history was made when French aviator, Henri Fabre, made the first take off by an airplane from water in a seaplane of his own design. Digging Deeper The aptly named Fabre Hydravion, was of the “float plane” type, an airplane equipped with floats slung underneath, as opposed to the “flying boat” type where the hull of the airplane is the floatation device on the water. Before World War II, there was a lack of suitable airfields around the world, making airplanes that could take off and land on the water versatile machines. …
A Brief History On March 26, 1812, the first use of the term “gerrymander” appeared in the Boston-Gazette in conjunction with a political cartoon making fun of the ridiculous boundaries drawn for new Massachusetts Senate election districts. The name came from the name of the governor, Elbridge Gerry and the likeness of a salamander that a district resembled. Digging Deeper The idea behind gerrymandering is to create voting precincts or districts that maximize the chance of a certain political party to have representatives elected. Minority parties’ populations are split up to avoid any one or more places where they might…