TIPS ON LIVING FROM CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Charles Bukowski, the “Dirty Old Man” of literature, died 24 years ago today. We bring you 24 or...
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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...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. BIRTHDAY PLAYLIST
Dr. King once said, “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of...
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...
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 –...
THANKSGIVING IS FOR TURKEYS – TOMMY WISEAU’S THE ROOM
PKM Is Proud To Announce The First Recipient Of Our Annual Turkey Award, Celebrating Epic Artistic Disasters, Goes...
WHEN BLACK POWER WAS FIRST IN BLOOM – THE SOUNDS OF REVOLUTION
Long before hip-hop commodified rebellion, and as early as 1964, artists like Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Nina...
WHEN COMICS BECAME COMIX
It may have started with Marvel vs. DC but it led to Robert Crumb and an Underground movement...
ALLEN GINSBERG SINGS! AND SO DO MANY OTHER BEAT POETS!
Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Patchen, Kandel, Waldman, Nordine and Young could have been a Supergroup In 1948, Allen Ginsberg had...