LEW WELCH: A BEAT POET’S DISAPPEARING ACT
A talented Beat poet who was a travel companion to Jack Kerouac, Zen buddy to Gary Snyder and...
Alan Bisbort
WHEN SCTV RULED THE WORLD
SNL got all the ink but SCTV was the place for serious comedy in the 1970s. PKM revisits...
THE HORROR! THE HORROR! ORSON WELLES’ HEART OF DARKNESS
Orson Welles’ ambitious movie version of Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness could have been the greatest American film never...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON VS THE HELLS ANGELS
After Thompson’s first book, Hell’s Angels, was published, his publicity junket led to some bizarre and downright blood-boiling TV...
TIPS ON LIVING FROM CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Charles Bukowski, the “Dirty Old Man” of literature, died 24 years ago today. We bring you 24 or...
THE GREATEST ROCK & ROLL MOVIE NEVER MADE
In 1966, the Rolling Stones and Marianne Faithfull were set to create the soundtrack for and play youth...
THE ADS THAT ATE DEMOCRACY
“We must either love each other, or we must die.” In 1964, two 60-second political TV spots forever...
THE MAD POETS SOCIETY
The poet Ezra Pound may have been a crazy old man, but does that cancel out his fascism...
THE GREATEST MOVIE NEVER MADE – ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY’S DUNE
Chilean film director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s version of the movie Dune had a cast and crew lined up that included...
RICHARD HELL, MAN OF LETTERS
Though known as a punk rock pioneer, Richard Hell picked up the pen long before he picked up...
HOW JACK KEROUAC FOUND HIS GROOVE
Slim Gaillard and Lord Buckley helped the King of the Beats locate his inner hipster Before the Beats...
DAVID BOWIE’S SON LAUNCHES THE DAVID BOWIE BOOK CLUB
The second-best thing to a PKM Book Club would be a David Bowie Book Club. Since the former...
I WANT TO LIVE!: TONYA HARDING MEETS BARBARA GRAHAM
Tonya Harding never won an Olympic medal and Barbara Graham was snuffed in the gas chamber at San...
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED THE NIGHT JIM MORRISON WAS ARRESTED ON STAGE 50 YEARS AGO?
50 years ago, The Doors’ singer was maced backstage by the cops and then arrested while performing –...