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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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50 years ago, The Doors’ singer was maced backstage by the cops and then arrested while performing - we take a look at the events that led to the arrest, includ...
PKM Is Proud To Announce The First Recipient Of Our Annual Turkey Award, Celebrating Epic Artistic Disasters, Goes To Tommy Wiseau’s The Room
Thanksgiving with...
Long before hip-hop commodified rebellion, and as early as 1964, artists like Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Nina Simone, Les McCann, Marvin Gaye, The Temptat...
It may have started with Marvel vs. DC but it led to Robert Crumb and an Underground movement that has only grown since the 1960s
You can’t toss a grenade thes...
Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Patchen, Kandel, Waldman, Nordine and Young could have been a Supergroup
In 1948, Allen Ginsberg had what he called an “auditory halluci...
Five musicians who served jail time in their prime - for drug smuggling, armed robbery, weapons charges and more...
“It’s no fun when that iron door clangs shu...
Ed Sanders of The Fugs bridges the gap between 3 very influential, uniquely American subcultures - Beats, hippies and punks
For the past four years, I have tau...
The bathrobe-and-pipe stereotype was just a weird disguise for a shy Midwesterner
As we all know, most red-blooded American males purchased Playboy magazine fo...
On The Road, published 60 years ago, freed young (and young at heart) Americans to trust their guts for the first time
As the anniversaries of major events pil...
Dr. Stanley, chief surgeon at San Quentin Prison for almost 40 years and a follower of eugenics, conducted bizarre medical experiments, transplants and plastic ...
These 10 Tunes Offer a Parallel Soundtrack to Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s PBS series The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War—a war that was never actually “declared”—...
When is a cover song better than the original? Is it flattery or just a cheap rip-off? Please Kill Me explores 12 cover songs that are better than you may expec...
