IRA ROBBINS: TROUSER PRESS, LASTING IMPACT & LIFE THEREAFTER
Ira Robbins began publishing Trouser Press in 1974 for all the right reasons: love of music on the...
Books
LOOKING WEST WITH LARRY MCMURTRY
The writer and bookseller Larry McMurtry, who died earlier this year at 84, was a Texas native best...
DAVID GREENBERGER: BEYOND DUPLEX PLANET
What began in 1979 for David Greenberger as a D.I.Y. newsletter for the residents at a Boston nursing...
AMERICAN MASSACRE: TULSA 1921
One hundred years ago, the deadliest white-on-black crime in U.S. history took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Not only...
NEW YORKERS: PHOTOGRAPHER SALLY DAVIES SNAPS THE LAST OF THE BOHEMIANS
Sally Davies made her mark in New York as a painter before abruptly switching to photography around 2000....
MILES COPELAND: HIS LIFE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS
Miles Copeland III was already a veteran music promoter and manager when the punk scene exploded in London....
CREATION STORIES: ALAN MCGEE’S LIFE, LABEL, LEGACY COMES TO A THEATER NEAR YOU
Glaswegian Alan McGee was the embodiment of the D.I.Y. spirit of the 1980s and 1990s, bringing Oasis, Primal...
JACK KEROUAC: BASKING IN THE GOLDEN ETERNITY
By the time Jack Kerouac died at 47 in 1969, he’d exiled himself from the 1960s youth culture...
MIDNIGHT COWBOY: A NEW YORK CITY PORTRAIT
Midnight Cowboy (1969) is the only X-rated movie to win the Best Picture Oscar. Now considered an American...
WHEN HENRY MILLER MET GEORGE ORWELL: A CLASH OF TITANS
George Orwell and Henry Miller, two of the most influential writers of the 20th century, had a single...
RICKIE LEE JONES: THE DUCHESS OF COOLSVILLE IS BACK
Rickie Lee Jones is back in the spotlight with a compelling memoir, Last Chance Texaco, and a 40th...
NANCY BARILE: HARDCORE WAS NOT A BOYS’ CLUB
Nancy Barile was, along with countless other women in the city in the early 1980s, an integral part...
CARTOONIST PETER BAGGE: BEYOND PUNK, GRUNGE AND HATE
Music defined the punk and grunge eras, but comics played an essential role, too. Cartoonist Peter Bagge, an...
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER: A SOUL FOREVER ON ICE
Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) was an enigma. The former Black Panther, revolutionary and author was also a murderer, rapist,...