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I have been a fan of The Roots , the amazing hip hop band out of of Philadelphia (best known as the house band on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” ), for many, many years, but I had never seen them live until this past Saturday night at Ravinia  (with Digable Planets  and Arrested Development ) and WOW. Some Background I became obsessed with hip hop around 1987 and it was my favorite genre of music until the mid-late 90s when I felt it began lose its edge, get repeti

Carl Reiner on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The Glory Days of Late Night. I took this picture of my TV, on my couch, of course. I have been watching television talk shows for as far back as I can remember, particularly the late night shows. When I was a kid, I watched "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" pretty much every night (my parents were NOT strict with me, at all...my dad took me to the theater to see "The Exorcist" when I was 8...so, yeah) and continued to w