Frank Sinatra recorded In the Wee Small Hours in 1955 with arrangements by Nelson Riddle. Unlike previous albums, all songs were specifically selected for this one, using only ballads that somehow related to late-night isolation and aching lost love—quite probably inspired by Sinatra’s separation from Ava Gardner after four years of marriage....

“This Grumman jet fighter is invisible. She is electrons. Yet day after day, she makes supersonic flights through an electronic sky,” according to this 1954 advertisement of the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation....

Chicago’s cityscape is a dazzling conglomeration of many different buildings styles. Some of the earliest skyscrapers of the Chicago School still stand proudly erect although overshadowed by the monoliths of Modernism. In between we find streets lit up in blazing fury at night. Looking north from the Chicago Board of Trade Observatory, we spot the LaSalle-Wacker ...

Is the mustache making a comeback? Hollywood celebrities as Nicolas Cage and Colin Farrell are leading the way, wearing their hirsute upper lips as a symbol of masculine pride though according to Playboy it is Brad Pitt in the first place, who recently starred, spotting a mustache, in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, who “may have ...