A LOVE SUPREME: HOW JOHN COLTRANE CHANGED THE WORLD
With a single night’s recording session and a 1965 album, “Trane” pointed the way toward a new consciousness...
Alan Bisbort
ELVIS IN THREE PICTURES
It will be 50 years this December since Elvis Presley made his famous “comeback” on TV, and it...
ROCK & ROLL’S WANNABE PICASSOS
Bob Dylan, Ronnie Wood and Grace Slick are best known for their music, but they’ve also pursued the...
NEWS FLASH: EAST GERMAN PUNKS TORE DOWN THE BERLIN WALL!
In his incendiary new book Burning Down the Haus, Tim Mohr documents the “secret history of punk rock...
HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT REVISITED
Classic documentary about the crowd at a 1986 Judas Priest/Dokken concert in suburban Washington D.C. never gets old...
BILL GRIFFITH: THE VIEW FROM HIS COMIX OBSERVATORY
The brilliant cartoonist, comic strip artist, creator of Zippy the Pinhead, inspirer of Belushi/Ackroyd and keeper of the...
TERRY SOUTHERN: THE CANDY MAN COMETH BACK
The master of “black humor,” inspiration for New Journalism and all things gonzo and hip, was also friends...
BEAT TO A PULP: TALKING ‘BOUT OUR GENERATION(S)
Pulp fiction may be fun to think about and the books’ covers are a delight, but the contents...
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION: REMEMBERING THE 60s
In the spirit of the July 4th holiday, we look backward and forward simultaneously, with a little help...
INFINITE JEST: THE LEGEND OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
The acclaimed writer and beloved writing teacher’s suicide ten years ago (Sept. 12) shocked his fans and students....
REAL CHARACTER: MISTER ROGERS
A new documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, reveals the revolutionary simplicity of a children’s TV icon who...
THE SEARCH FOR CRAIG SMITH, A PROMISING L.A. SONGWRITER WHOSE STORY TOOK A DARK TURN
On the brink of stardom, with help from Michael Nesmith, Mike Love and Glen Campbell, Craig Smith took...
RUBE GOLDBERG: THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CARTOON MADMAN KNOWN FOR HIS CRAZY INVENTIONS
Cartoonist Rube Goldberg’s crazy inventions still resonate in the age of smartphones. Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize winner...
BARRY TASHIAN OF BOSTON’S THE REMAINS RECALLS TOURING WITH THE BEATLES IN ’66
Singer, guitarist and main songwriter for the Remains, Boston’s first and finest rock & roll band, recalls the...