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Contributing Author Bill Bois examines a Music Row murder shaped by corruption, fear, and the quiet mechanisms that once powered an entire industry. His account traces the long arc from a single night’s violence to the slow, uneasy unraveling of a system that preferred its shadows intact.
In this week’s dispatch, Contributing Author and historian Bill Bois introduces us to a man who heard a weird noise on Radio Moscow and thought, quite reasonably, that his radio had finally given up. Instead, it turns out Paul Pena was just warming up for his eventual career as Tuva’s most improbable “Earthquake,” proving once again that the universe rewards curiosity—and occasionally, bathroom acoustics.
Richard Feynman, a Nobel-winning mind used curiosity, clarity, and a bit of showmanship to change history. In a piece that captures that rare mix of brilliance, mischief, and pure joyful curiosity, Contributing Author and Historian Bill Bois delivers a wonderfully bright portrait of the physicist who treated the universe like a favorite percussion instrument.
It’s another another fun and historical ride, this time to WW II Europe, with Contributing Author Blossom W. (ALERT: Incoming Pun:) “You’ll bearly believe this, but”