Sunday, March 8, 2026

On this day in movie history - 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

 

10 Cloverfield Lane


directed by Dan Trachtenberg,

written by Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken and Damien Chazelle,

based on a story by Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken,

was released in the United States on March 8, 2016.

Music by Bear McCreary.
 
Cast:
John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr., Douglas M. Griffin, Suzanne Cryer, Bradley Cooper, Sumalee Montano, Frank Mottek, Kayla Bechor.

On this day in movie history - Mine 9 (2019)

 

Mine 9


directed and written by Eddie Mensore,

was released at Cinequest in the United States on March 8, 2019.

Music by Mauricio Yazigi.
 
Cast:
Terry Serpico, Mark Ashworth, Kevin Sizemore, Clint James, Drew Starkey, Erin Elizabeth Burns, Alpha Trivette, Francine Locke, Elizabeth Houston, Annie Thrash, Owen Vaccaro, Tuesday Beebe, Vanley Boro, Shelby Tsuhlares, Patrick Lemon, Karl Funk, Joseph W. Peterson Jr., Brian J. Cain, Richard Langsmith, John Vella, Dave Jones, Brendon Lewis, Sheldon Lewis, Brecken Lewis, Matthew Keegan Osburn, Scottie Hurley, Tom Sayers, Ralph Campbell, Roger Looney, Dan Justice, Josh Rowe, Brandon May.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960)

 

M Squad
Season 3. Episode 25.

Episode entitled: The Velvet Stakeout.

Released March 8, 1960.

Directed by William Witney.

Written by Stuart Jerome and Maxwell Shane.

Music by Benny Carter.

 
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Whitney Blake, John Shay, Malcolm Atterbury, Oliver McGowan.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - Star Trek, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek / book (2024)

Star Trek (1968)

Star Trek: Voyager (2000)

Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek / book (2024)

 

Star Trek
Season 2. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: The Ultimate Computer.

Released March 8, 1968.

Directed by John Meredyth Lucas.

Written by D.C. Fontana, Laurence N. Wolfe.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, William Marshall, Sean Morgan, John Duke / Barry Russo, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Roger Holloway, Eddie Paskey.

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 6. Episode 19.

Episode entitled: Child’s Play.

Released March 8, 2000.

Directed by Michael/Mike Vejar.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Raf Green, Paul Brown, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by David Bell.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Manu Intiraymi, Tracey Ellis, Mark A. Sheppard, Scarlett Pomers, Marley McClean, Kurt Wetherill, Cody Wetherill, Eric Ritter, Majel Barrett, Michael Bailous, Tarik Ergin, Dieter Horneman, Nichole McAuley, Pablo Soriano.

 

Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek

by Nana Visitor.

Published by Insight Editions.

Published 2024.

Hardcover.

ASIN: B0C7P8NTH2

ISBN-13: 979-8886633016

Description:

Nana Visitor, Star Trek’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews with the stars, writers, producers, and celebrity fans reveal the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere.

The groundbreaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in 1966 was a paradigm shift for women and people of color. Pioneering is no picnic, and she planned to leave the show until none other than the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. contextualized her appearance in people’s living rooms across America as a way for people of color to know they were indeed an important part of the future.

Since then, each Star Trek show has both reflected the values of its time and imagined a future of equality. In her first book, Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek, Nana Visitor sets out to discover both how Star Trek led the way for women, and how each show was trapped in its own era.

For Visitor, this is more than a book about Star Trek. It’s also about how society and the stories we tell have evolved in the last sixty years, and how the role of women has changed in that time.

STAR AUTHOR: Written by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Nana Visitor, famous for playing Major Kira Nerys. This is both her story and her journey through the stories of other women involved with Star Trek from the 1960s to the 21st century.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Features interviews with more than a dozen women who starred in Star Trek, including Kate Mulgrew, Sonequa Martin-Green, Terry Farrell, Gates McFadden, Denise Crosby, Tawny Newsome, and Jess Bush.

INSPIRING STORIES: Explore how Star Trek has influenced women in the real world, including soldiers, scientists, and even astronauts. For the book, author Nana Visitor visited ESA HQ and interviewed astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti while she was in orbit around Earth on the International Space Station.

PIONEERING SERIES: Following the humanistic tenets of creator Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, throughout the decades, led the way in promoting diversity. Youths who grew up with Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, for example, not only learned to accept a woman as a leader but were also able to expand what they could imagine for themselves. The book makes clear how important storytelling is, and how the storytelling of Star Trek has had a profound effect on its audience.

Saturday, March 7, 2026

On this day in music history - Blues, Out of Time, Earthsongs

Blues by Lonnie Johnson (1960)

Out of Time by R.E.M. (1991)

Earthsongs by Secret Garden (2005)

 


Blues

Album by Lonnie Johnson,

recorded March 8, 1960.

Track list: Don't Ever Love; No Love for Sale; There's No Love; I Don't Hurt Anymore; She-Devil; One-Sided Love Affair; Big Leg Woman; There Must Be a Way; She's Drunk Again; Blues 'Round My Door; You Don't Move Me; You Will Need Me.

 


Out of Time

Album by R.E.M.,

released March 8, 1991.

Track list: Radio Song; Losing My Religion; Low; Near Wild Heaven; Endgame; Shiny Happy People; Belong; Half A World Away; Texarcana; Country Feedback; Me In Honey.

 


Earthsongs

Album by Secret Garden,

released March 8, 2005.

Track list: Sometimes When It Rains; Fields of Fortune; The Reel; Always There; When Darkness Falls; Sleepsong; Lotus; Searching for the Past; Daughters of Erin; Half a World Away; Grace; Raise Your Voices.

Enrique Jardiel Poncela, on writing:

 

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
- Enrique Jardiel Poncela.


Charles W. Eliot, on books:

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;
they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors,
and the most patient of teachers.
– Charles W. Eliot.