Picture it: Houston, 2025. A mother and her young daughter walk into the doctor's office one afternoon. In the waiting area is a little free library built to look like a red British telephone box. As they scan the shelves, the mother sees a book, well-known to her and once quite controversial but now almost …
Continue reading “I’m just a writer. Malamud’s an author.”: The Golden Girls and Banned Books Week
Today's the day: happy 40th anniversary to The Golden Girls!!! The show premiered on NBC on September 14th, 1985 and was an instant hit that's been making us laugh ever since. I feel like that's almost an understatement given how popular the show still is. NBC started airing daytime reruns of the show in 1989 …
Bea Arthur's Wikipedia page is like a second home on the Internet for me. I stop by probably at least once a week to double check a date in the chronology of her career or even to add an entry to her Filmography. Am I doing the lord's work? Well, not quite, but I love …
This post originally appeared in print in issue 5 of Retrofied magazine. The Golden Girls aired for seven seasons on NBC from 1985 until 1992 and has enjoyed enduring popularity in syndication ever since. The show's four main characters--Dorothy, Blanche, Rose, and Sophia--lived together in Blanche’s house located at the fictional address of 6151 Richmond …
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If you spend any time in Golden Girls fan groups on social media then you know how much everyone loves to post when and where they find merch inspired by the show. It's no wonder because there's so much great stuff out there now, from coffee mugs and t-shirts to figurines and pretty much everything …
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The Golden Girls Fashion Corner 