Singer, guitarist and main songwriter for the Remains, Boston’s first and finest rock & roll band, recalls the days when his band played on The Ed Sullivan ...
A talented Beat poet who was a travel companion to Jack Kerouac, Zen buddy to Gary Snyder and Michael McClure and stepfather to Huey Lewis, Lew Welch walked sou...
SNL got all the ink but SCTV was the place for serious comedy in the 1970s. PKM revisits the funniest clips from the Great White North, featuring greats like Jo...
Orson Welles' ambitious movie version of Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness could have been the greatest American film never made
Orson Welles...
After Thompson's first book, Hell’s Angels, was published, his publicity junket led to some bizarre and downright blood-boiling TV
Hunter S. Thompson was ...
Charles Bukowski, the “Dirty Old Man” of literature, died 24 years ago today. We bring you 24 or so reasons to revisit the master of literary disaster.
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In 1966, the Rolling Stones and Marianne Faithfull were set to create the soundtrack for and play youth gang members in a movie based on the novel Only Lovers L...
"We must either love each other, or we must die." In 1964, two 60-second political TV spots forever changed the tone of American politics, pointing the way towa...
The poet Ezra Pound may have been a crazy old man, but does that cancel out his fascism or his treason?
When I first started working at the Library of Congress...
Chilean film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's version of the movie Dune had a cast and crew lined up that included H.R. Giger, Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger, David ...
Dr. King once said, “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
When Martin Luther King Jr. Day roll...
Though known as a punk rock pioneer, Richard Hell picked up the pen long before he picked up the bass guitar. Richard talks to PKM about his upcoming retrospect...
Slim Gaillard and Lord Buckley helped the King of the Beats locate his inner hipster
Before the Beats jumped into the musical deep end, two stand-up jazz artis...
Tonya Harding never won an Olympic medal and Barbara Graham was snuffed in the gas chamber at San Quentin but both women knew one of America's darkest secrets
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