As the holiday season comes to a close, it’d like to present a superb Christmas double featuring singer & actor Bing Crosby, both with music from composer Irving Berlin, and the song “White Christmas”: 1942’s Holiday Inn (co-starring Fred Astaire and Marjorie Reynolds) and 1954’s White Christmas with Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen.

Last week, on June 22, 2021, Harper Collins published Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys, by Trader Joe’s founder Joe Coulombe and editor Patty Civalleri. In a weekend review, Los Angeles Times Book Critic and Culture Columnist Mary McNamara said of the book, “it is just as much fun as you’d expect.”