Jack Jones - American singer and actor - (1938-2024) Grant Gustin - American actor and singer - 36 Emma Greenwell - American-born English actress - 37 Frankie Bridge - English singer, former member of S Club Juniors - 37 Mikalah Gordon - American singer - 38 Caleb Followill - American actor and composer, member of Kings of Leon - 44 Zach Gilford - American actor - 44 Emayatzy Corinlealdi - American actress - 46 Angela Lindvall - American model and actress - 47 Karen Elson - English model and singer-songwriter - 47 Jordan Ladd - American actress - 51 Kevin Durand - Canadian actor - 52 Jason Bateman - American actor, director and producer - 57 Dave Grohl - American musician, singer-songwriter - 57 LL Cool J - American rapper, songwriter, record producer and actor - 58 Emily Watson - English actress - 59 Zakk Wylde - American musician - 59 Slick Rick - English-American rapper and record producer - 61 Mark Addy - English actor - 62 Shepard Smith - Former American broadcast...

   ► Some people have zero respect for wildlife. They seem to think that mother nature and her critters are here for their juvenile amusement. A tourist at the Tourons of National Park found out the hard way what happens when you behave like an ahole dipped in stupidity, and in return nature gives you a steaming bowl of instant karma. A driver came upon an elk in the middle of a road who was minding it's own business. Instead of letting the elk cross, the driver decided to slow down and taunt the beast. The entire thing was caught on video by the park. The driver started talking trash to elk by saying, "Watch out buddy. You wanna fight? You wanna go bud." The elk wasn't in the mood to deal with yet another reject of Darwin's Theory of Evolution. The elk rammed its antlers into the car's front tire, deflating it along with the ahole's ego. The elk then sashayed unharmed telling the driver (in elk-speak), "who's your daddy now".  Well done!   R...

Long before she was the Black Dahlia, she was an average girl who coughed through Massachusetts winters and dreamily stared at the sky as if it could grant her a special wish. She was always a girl who wanted something more, something bigger, something better.  Elizabeth Short was born in 1924 outside of Boston, the third of five daughters in a house filled with tension and disappointment. Her father’s business, building miniature golf courses, collapsed during the Great Depression. And then one morning, his car was found by a bridge, and the police thought it was suicide: Phoebe Short, Elizabeth’s mother, knew otherwise. What she was left with were five mouths to feed and no money to do it. Elizabeth was a delicate child.  Pale, thin, with a weak immune system that had a broken filter. Every night, she slept propped on pillows, so her inflamed lungs wouldn’t become filled with fluid, cutting off her airways, making it impossible for her to breathe. Her mother religiously rubb...

Podcast recommendations are often the best ones, and we Peckers always have excellent taste. Comfort listens, deep dives on certain topics, or even just background noise: what's in your podcast rotation right now? Photo Credit: David Fisher/Shutterstock

  Wayne Coyne - American musician; member of The Flaming Lips - 65 Lori Harvey - American model - 29 Tyler Henry - American reality show personality - 30 Natalia Dyer - American actress - 31 Liam Hemsworth - Australian actor - 36 Beau Mirchoff - Canadian-American actor - 37 Julian Morris - English actor - 43 William Hung - Hong-Kong-born American motivational speaker and former singer - 43 Ruth Wilson - English actress - 44 Ginger Zee - American tv personality - 45 Jill Wagner - American actress and tv personality - 47 Orlando Bloom - English actor - 49 Ross McCall - Scottish actor - 50 Michael Peña - American actor - 50 Andrew Yang - American businessman, attorney and lobbyist - 51 Nicole Eggert - American actress - 54 Atoosa Rubenstein - Iranian-American former magazine editor - 54 Shonda Rhimes - American tv producer and screenwriter - 56 Traci Bingham - American actress, model and tv personality - 58 Suzanne Cryer - American actress - 59 Patrick Dempsey - American actor...

    ► Now that her stint on Stranger Things has come to an end. Millie Bobby Brown's (21) next career stop (besides being a young mom and trad wife to Mr. Bon Jovi Jr.) is launching a fashion line. The line will be called, "Mills" and is being  created exclusively for Walmart. BTW, "Mills" should not be confused with MBB other venture, "Florence by Mills". That business includes fashion, cosmetics, perfume, and coffee. Wait..no auto parts or toilet seat covers? Boo-hoo!  Anyway, the "Mills" fashion line (if you can call it that) is aimed at young women who have Fireball Whiskey taste but a Red Bull budget. MBB spewed this out when asked why she selected Walmart:  Read More  and  Here's The Line Up "Her new line for Walmart was designed as a love letter to her younger self, and the girls she continues to meet today, with more trend-geared, flirty and feminine styles priced $10.50 to $26.50, with sizes ranging from XS to XXXL. She saw ...

For decades, the United Kingdom has presented itself as a model of democratic maturity. Procedural. Measured. Governance by pragmatic norms rather than overblown theatrics. Even its scandals arrive packaged and presented with a polite veneer.  However, now that reputation functions less as an admirable virtue than as subterfuge and camouflage. The UK has become a case study in how a liberal democracy can fracture silently, outsource devastating cruelty to the mostly tabloid press, and erode minority protections while smugly congratulating itself on restraint. It is a mistake to view Brexit as merely a referendum outcome. It was a cataclysmic structural event that rewired British politics, possibly forever. It normalized grievance as a governing force, degraded public trust in expertise, and created an unyielding state of cultural agitation. The economic damage is no mystery. It has unfolded exactly as the critics predicted: reduced growth, trade friction, labor shortages, and a con...

Welcome, music sloots to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today by way of a San Francisco gal with incredible talent and understated class, a combo we don't see much in performers these days of any ilk, if at all. Better still, she's still truckin' at age 86. And though it's wintertime, her music will bring back summer. Just listen and you'll feel the heat, the light humidity, a chill band and her freshly reviving voice. Also, San Francisco must have something in the water, because so many terrific jazz vocalists seem to hail from there. It can't be a coincidence. Case in point, Mary Stallings, born in 1939 in the city, the middle child of 11 siblings. Get this: she's also the niece of saxophonist Orlando Stallings, who introduced her to jazz when she was just a wee one after overhearing her scatting to Dizzy Gillespie's "Oop-Bop-Sh'bam." She performed briefly with Uncle Orlando's band and with her church, and while she was still...