Lou Duro
MY NEW YEAR NOTE
I would like to wish everyone a very happy new year, and not to be fooled into thinking something "special" will happen. It probably...
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Lou Duro
Jul 28, 20234 min read
"'O SOLE MIO"
With the passing of the great popular singer Tony Bennett and the resulting media exposure, I began thinking that so many performers of...
Lou Duro
Jun 29, 20232 min read
MY LITTLE CHICKADEE
After a month in the hospital with a kidney infection, I'm now greatly improved and convalescing at home while being treated as an...
Lou Duro
Nov 19, 20204 min read
IF PINOCCHIO WAS PRESIDENT
It all started with a lie. One of the first things every school kid in America learns is: George Washington, America's first president,...
Lou Duro
Nov 6, 20204 min read
MEET THE LEGEND NAMED RALPH ZENGEN
The phrase, "He was a legend in his own time," may be one of the most overused, and, usually exaggerated, expressions in history, but...
Lou Duro
Oct 31, 20202 min read
MASKS OF THE MASSES
"Who was that masked man, anyway?" That was one of our favorite lines of our youth, usually asked by some awe-struck cowhand on The Lone...
Lou Duro
Sep 29, 20203 min read
OUR ISLAND PARADISE/ ΤΟ ΠΑΡΑΔΕΙΣΕΝΙΟ ΝΗΣΙ ΜΑΣ
It was 1985 when we fled the turmoil of New York City to take up residence amidst the tranquility of this unique island of Crete, a...
Lou Duro
Sep 1, 20203 min read
TABOO TO TOPLESS SUNBATHING? THE BARE FACTS
Leave it to The French. When the whole world is talking about Covid-19, they change the subject, and the headlines, back to its country’s...
Lou Duro
Aug 27, 20204 min read
COVID-19: CAN WE TAKE 2 MORE YEARS?
(Note: This blog posting is not meant to be a “news story,” as information concerning Cov id-19 changes rapidly – practically by the...
Lou Duro
Aug 19, 20205 min read
A FEW WORDS ABOUT “THE VIRUS”
Since no one else is talking about this mysterious virus which is rapidly spreading across the world – and since there is nothing else to...
Lou Duro
Jun 6, 20204 min read
THE OTHER 'ROCKY': HOLLYWOOD'S REAL CHAMP
There's something about The Rocky Horror Picture Show that draws people to see it again and again, as I did last night – for the...
Lou Duro
May 28, 20204 min read
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: STAY OFF OUR ISLAND!
It’s like being jammed between the rock and the hard place, but, at least at this moment in history, the world-famous Cretan Hospitality...
Lou Duro
May 24, 20206 min read
BLAME IT ON LINDSAY:THE CUOMO DYNASTY
It all began in the mid-sixties. Mayor John V. Lindsay had a headache. A serious headache. It stemmed from the first, but certainly not...
Lou Duro
Feb 17, 20204 min read
‘FRIEND’ AND ‘LOVE’: TWO MOST OVERUSED WORDS
With all due respect to the powers that be at Facebook, where do they get off by using the word “friend” in such an extemporary manner?...
Lou Duro
Jan 28, 20204 min read
LIVING IN CRETE: A UTOPIAN WAY OF LIFE – ALMOST
Inspired by an article in International Living magazine entitled “Crete and Corfu: For a Healthy, Simple, Greek Island Retirement,” which...
Lou Duro
Jan 28, 20205 min read
THE GREAT BAMBINO: NEED I SAY MORE?
Well, maybe just a little more. The 2019 baseball season has managed to undo what The Great Bambino spent a lifetime achieving. It...
Lou Duro
Jan 28, 20207 min read
THE ONE, THE ONLY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
Rock Music by any other name, is NOT Rock 'n' Roll When Danny and the Juniors recorded Rock 'n' Roll is Here to Stay in 1957 there was no...
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