As I mentioned on Monday, I was surprised and rather flattered to find myself in the Sotheby's catalogue for last week's sale in New York of miscellaneous property of Barbara and Frank Sinatra. My fleeting appearance turned up re Lot 104, a set of personalized golf clubs with a leather bag bearing the inscription "The Thin One": 'The Thin One'—emblazoned on the present golf bag as well as some of the personalized golf balls—was an early Sinatra nickname that was eventually displaced by more familiar ones: The Voice, Ol' Blue Eyes, and The Chairman of the Board. But it had enough cachet still in 1962 that the composer and arranger Neal Hefti—perhaps best known for writing the themes to the The Odd Couple movie and TV series and the Batman ...

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In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark

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A movie for Hanukkah, if you overlook the deer and the portapotty

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Ovine delights from Amazon, and bovine stupidity near and far

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Mark and Tucker on new fronts in the war on Christmas:

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Mark starts the day on the curvy couch and various topics culminating with M Macron's restless subjects:

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Questions from Steyn Club members on Saudi SOBs, British betrayal, conservative cowardice and more:

Mark's Mailbox is made possible through the support of members of The Mark Steyn Club, for which we...

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Mark and Tucker on Bill & Hill's empty stadium tour:

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Steyn on Somalia with chip shops, golf with Sinatra, and a world without CRTV

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We're proud to present a brand new edition of The Mark Steyn Show, recorded before a live audience on the inaugural Mark Steyn Cruise:

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A case that should never have been brought finally ends.

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Cary Katz's four Steyn suits (and counting)

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Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me enters its sixth year in the constipated bowels of DC justice...

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The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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Welcome to the final installment of our first festive Tale for Our Time this Christmas - a seasonal sampling from a beloved American classic by Louisa May Alcott, Little Women at Christmas. This concluding installment takes place one year on from yesterday's - another Christmas Day in an America at war, but one that brings the only present the four March sisters really wanted: Now and then, in this work-a-day world, things do happen in the delightful story-book fashion, and what a comfort that is. Half an hour after every one had said they were so happy they could only hold one drop more, the drop came. Laurie opened the parlor door, and popped his head in very quietly. He might just as well have turned a somersault and uttered an Indian ...

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Welcome to the second episode of the first of The Mark Steyn Club's festive Tales for Our Time this Christmas. This weekend's entertainment is a seasonal sampling of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Elizabeth Lorenz, a First-Day Founding Member from Massachusetts, adds a Little Women vignette all of her own: Thank you so much for reading this story! The Orchard House where Louisa wrote this story is not far from where I live. My only daughter spent the years from 8 to around 16 volunteering there then learned to give tours and spent a few more years at that job. During the Christmas season the girls who volunteer and some of the ladies who give tours all dress in their hoop skirts and mid 19th century attire for the tours which take a ...

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Welcome to the Christmas season at SteynOnline. If you're short of gift ideas, we have some bargains galore among this year's Steynamite Christmas specials - and as always we will have a full panoply of seasonal programming in the days ahead. As I've emphasized since we launched The Mark Steyn Club last year, our regular content will always be free to everyone around the world, but we are admitting Club members to a few experimental features which, in the event they're sufficiently non-incompetent, we may eventually make more widely available. Tales for Our Time is one such - my series of monthly audio adventures ...

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Dennis and Mark are taking a new double-bill out on tour

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In the final episode of Baroness Orczy's unforgettable adventure The Scarlet Pimpernel, the Pas de Calais air is alive with unGallic oaths...

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Welcome to the penultimate episode of Baroness Orczy's tale of romance and adventure in France's Reign of Terror - The Scarlet Pimpernel. In tonight's installment, what's a devoted wife to do when a chap comes sauntering along the Cap Gris-Nez surrounded by fervent revolutionaries and starts singing "God Save the King"?

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It's time for Part Twenty-Two of my serialization of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. In tonight's episode, as the action races toward its climax on the Cap Gris-Nez, Marguerite espies what may yet prove a glimmer of hope...

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On this centenary of the end of the Great War, there could really only be one choice for this weekend's video poem...

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Mark and his guests celebrate a great songwriter (and gazetteer)

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We're honored to present another live-performance edition of Mark's Song of the Week. Bobby Troup was born one hundred years ago and, by way of celebration, here's his biggest hit - sung and played by Tal Bachman live on the inaugural Mark Steyn Club Cruise:

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