What’s cooler than a book about what’s cool?
How about a really cool Web site about cool?
That’s the gist of catalog-of-cool.com, the new site based on the 1982 book with the same name by Gene Sculatti, former director of special issues for Billboard magazine and veteran music-industry wag.
The site launched in September but recently expanded with added features.
You’ll find the five coolest cars as determined by ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons (hint: one is Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s “Beatnik Bandit”), rave reviews on recent albums from Los Straitjackets and the Rutles-esque British Invasion Revival and paeans to such coolios from the past as jazz pianist-composer Vince Guaraldi and the Baja Marimba Band.
There’s even a history of how “cool” itself has been defined and anointed over time.
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Edited by Cara DiPasquale (cdipasquale@tribune.com) and Victoria Rodriguez (vrodriguez@tribune.com)
