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ALEX COX: THE RETURN OF WALKER

David Stewart·March 22, 2022

British filmmaker Alex Cox made his name with Sid and Nancy and cult-fave Repo Man. However, his epic story of greed, Latin American politics and U.S. chicanery, Walker (1987)—set in Nicaragua in the mid-1800s—should have been his pinnacle. With a...

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BELIEVE IT: MARCIA RESNICK’S LENS ON NYC

Sandra Hale Schulman·March 21, 2022

Photographer Marcia Resnick was fully embedded in the Downtown NYC scenes of the 1970s and 1980s. Her “Resnick’s Believe It” feature in the Soho Weekly News (1979-82) was essential viewing, as she specialized in the ‘Bad Boys’ of the city,...

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BREAKIN’ THE LEVER OFF WITH HASIL ADKINS

Bob Pomeroy·March 17, 2022

The amazing West Virginian Hasil Adkins (1937-2005) was a one-man band (guitar, drums) who took rock ‘n’ roll, rockabilly, country and country blues right to the edge of madness. His prodigious supply of self-penned tunes was fueled by alcohol and...

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WHY BARBRA STREISAND MATTERS

Tom Santopietro·March 16, 2022

As she nears her 80th birthday (April 24), Barbra Streisand remains a singular figure in American entertainment. By the age of 28, this brassy Brooklyn girl had already done the unthinkable, winning the EGOT—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards—and she...

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THE FALL AND RISE OF ERVIN NYIREGYHAZI, L.A.’s SKID ROW PIANIST

Tony Mostrom·March 15, 2022

A one-time prodigy from Hungary, who was composing music at age 5, wowing audiences with his percussive piano playing in his teens and being called the second coming of Mozart and Liszt, Ervin Nyiregyhazi, ended his days as a denizen...

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LEADERS OF THE PACK: THE ‘GIRL GROUP’-PUNK CONNECTION

Louis Jordan·March 14, 2022

Is there a link between the Ramones and the Ronettes? The Stooges and the New York Dolls and the Shangri-Las? There’s no denying that a rich vein of musical similarities and mutual fandom existed between these two camps. Louis Jordan...

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KEROUAC: ON THE VERGE OF FAME

Paul Maher, Jr·March 10, 2022

After hand-delivering the final manuscript of On the Road to Viking Press in Jan. 1957, Jack Kerouac spent two drunken weeks in NYC before hopping a freighter to Tangier, to visit and type manuscripts for William S. Burroughs. His mind...

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DOCTOR SAX AND THE GREAT WORLD SNAKE: KEROUAC’S FORGOTTEN OPUS

Catherine de Leon·March 9, 2022

Written in Mexico in 1952 but not published until 1959, Dr. Sax is Jack Kerouac’s most enigmatic novel. Incorporating themes from New England heroes Melville and Hawthorne, Kerouac revisits boyhood scenes in Lowell, Mass., in rich, hallucinogenic prose. The narrative’s...

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ALENE LEE: THE HEART OF A SUBTERRANEAN

Erika Blair·March 8, 2022

Jack Kerouac based his muse/lover “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans on Alene Lee, a mixed race (Black/Cherokee) bohemian writer and intellectual who was a part of the NYC Beat circle of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr. Despite...

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JACK KEROUAC AT 100: HIS MAGICAL JUKEBOX

Alan Bisbort·March 7, 2022

Music was the food that fueled Jack Kerouac’s soul, drove his writing and brought him his rare moments of solace. What would a mix tape by Jack Kerouac consist of? By combing his letters, journals and published writings, we have...

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TOWNES VAN ZANDT: FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG

Alan Bisbort·March 3, 2022

Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997) was a singer-songwriter whose work was popularized by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard and Lyle Lovett, among many others. Some of his tunes (“Pancho and Lefty,” “For the Sake of the Song,” “To Live is...

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FILMMAKER GUS VAN SANT ‘NEVER LEFT THE BEAT INFLUENCE’

David Stewart·March 2, 2022

As an aspiring teenage artist, Gus Van Sant had his head turned by the writing of Jack Kerouac and fellow Beats William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Then, as an aspiring filmmaker at RISD—where classmates included future Talking Heads—he was...

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I HATE WORK: AVANT-GARDE DRUMMER MIKE PRIDE TRANSFORMS MDC HARDCORE INTO PIANO JAZZ

Brad Cohan·March 1, 2022

Two worlds came together when Mike Pride, a powerful presence on the NYC underground jazz and experimental music scene, joined the hardcore giants MDC in 2002. Pride played and toured with the band for three years and several years later,...

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RICHIE HAVENS REVISITED

John Kruth·February 28, 2022

Brooklyn born and raised, Richie Havens (1941-2013) began hanging out in Greenwich Village in 1959, as a street portrait artist and sometime busker. By 1961, he was a familiar face in the folk clubs, playing alongside Dave Van Ronk, Fred...

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Jack Kerouac based his muse/lover “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans on Alene Lee, a mixed race (Black/Cherokee) bohemian writer and intellectual who was a part of the NYC Beat circle of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr. Despite her intimate connection to these writers, the real Alene Lee is nowhere to be found in most accounts and biographies—partly due to her own reticence to speak. Erika Blair did some digging and presents a more rounded portrait of this fascinating woman. Read more!

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