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DECOUPAGE!: L.A. POST-PUNKS ON TV! SEALED WITH A KITSCH!

Tony Mostrom·February 1, 2022

In the late ’80s, L.A. performance artist and musician Craig Roose took his breezy, ‘60s-obsessed “drag” character “Miss Summer Caprice” to the airwaves, making “her” the star of his music and comedy cable TV show, Decoupage! With Summer Caprice! PKM’s Anthony...

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WHEN AIM MET THE SLA: STARRING DENNIS BANKS AND PATTY HEARST

Sandra Hale Schulman·January 31, 2022

Patty Hearst’s kidnapping riveted the nation like few others in the 1970s. Equally riveting, but far less covered, was the fate of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and its charismatic leader, Dennis Banks, on trial for his part in the...

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AL KOOPER REMEMBERS PART II

John Kruth·January 27, 2022

He was a participant in some of the great musical moments of the past half century, as musician, songwriter, singer, producer and collaborator extraordinaire. He’s also a great raconteur and in this segment, Al Kooper remembers the time he spent...

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AL KOOPER REMEMBERS, PART I

John Kruth·January 26, 2022

He was a participant in some of the great musical moments of the past half century, part of Bob Dylan’s band when he “went electric” at the ‘65 Newport Folk Festival, accompanist for Village folk ‘royalty’ (Joan Baez, Judy Collins,...

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GYPSY ROSE LEE: WOMAN OF MANY TALENTS

Erika Blair·January 25, 2022

Gypsy Rose Lee will forever be associated with Gypsy, the musical adapted from her own memoir by Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim. But there was so much more to Rose Louise Hovick than her (undeniable) talents as a...

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ANGUS MACLISE: THE PETE BEST OF THE PUNK GODFATHERS

Alan Bisbort·January 24, 2022

Angus MacLise (1938-1979) was, as the Velvet Underground’s original drummer, an essential element of their early free-form sound, particularly on songs like “Heroin,” “Venus in Furs” and “Black Angel’s Death Song”. Because he left the band before they released an...

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THE MYSTERIOUS BARD: PETE BROWN’S JOURNEY FROM THE BEATS TO CREAM

John Kruth·January 20, 2022

Before Beatlemania and the British Invasion, Pete Brown was one of the UK’s few professional poets who made a living performing verse, alongside Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. From there, he toured with a backing band that included...

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FROM BIBA TO HULA: DESIGNER BARBARA HULANICKI STILL COOL AT 85

Sandra Hale Schulman·January 19, 2022

Barbara Hulanicki began her career in clothing as a fashion illustrator and photographer in the late 1950s. By the 1960s, she was designing threads for the likes of Twiggy, Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull and, later, David Bowie and selling them...

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PHOTOGRAPHER ALLAN TANNENBAUM: ON THE SOHO NEWS BEAT AND ELSEWHERE

Gregory Daurer·January 18, 2022

[All photos © Allan Tannenbaum, except where otherwise noted.] Allan Tannenbaum sits atop a photographic archive the size of the Matterhorn (see https://www.sohoblues.com/), a reflection of his extraordinarily varied career. The New Jersey native made his name as the staff...

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ALI: JUST SAYING THE NAME LIGHTS UP A ROOM

Alan Bisbort·January 17, 2022

It’s fitting that today is not only Martin Luther King Jr. Day but also the 80th anniversary of the birth of Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (after 1964, known as Muhammad Ali). Either way, this is a great day. Both men...

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R.I.P EVE BABITZ: THE QUINTESSENTIAL L.A. WOMAN

Ingrid Marie Jensen·January 13, 2022

When Eve Babitz died on December 17, the light dimmed a bit in Los Angeles, the city she loved and came to completely embody. As it turns out, her friend and mentor Joan Didion outlived her by only one week....

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RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK: A TORTURED LOVE AFFAIR WITH ROCK ‘N’ ROLL

John Kruth·January 12, 2022

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the blind jazz visionary, inspired a who’s who of rock music, including Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, Jethro Tull, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Tim Buckley and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Kirk, a master...

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INSIDE THE WINDMILL WITH PHOTOGRAPHER LOU SMITH

Ingrid Marie Jensen·January 11, 2022

The videos and photographs of Lou Smith have been tearing up YouTube and Instagram in recent years, launching the careers of many young rock ‘n’ roll artists out of the U.K.—his epicenter being The Windmill Brixton, a grotty but loveable...

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TOMORROW WITH TOM SNYDER: A RECONSIDERATION

Alan Bisbort·January 10, 2022

During the punk era, Tom Snyder carved out a post-midnight corner of the TV landscape with his show, Tomorrow. After staggering in from the bar or the club, you could switch it on and unwind to the always unpredictable guest...

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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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