EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: ROCK & ROLL WAS INVENTED IN WILDWOOD, NEW JERSEY! – BY DEKE DICKERSON Deke Dickerson·June 12, 2019Deke Dickerson charts the birth of Rock & Roll music—as we know it—to the early 1950s, and a...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfDeke DickersonHistory·11 Comments
PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS Burt Kearns·June 28, 2019The faces of these three actors were familiar to Baby Boomers raised on TV situation comedies. Their private...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfBurt KearnsCool PeopleHistoryTV·3 Comments
‘WHERE’S THE BAG, MR. KARDASHIAN?’: OR, HOW I EXPOSED O.J. SIMPSON’S ACCOMPLICE AND SET THE STAGE FOR A TV EMPIRE Burt Kearns·July 3, 2019Four weeks after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, a tabloid news producer made a...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfBurt KearnsCrimeHistoryTV·0 Comments
ANDY WARHOL AND THE BEATS IN DENVER: A CONVERSATION WITH MARK SINK Zack Kopp·July 29, 2019Denver photographer, street artist and gallery owner Mark Sink talks about the Andy Warhol he knew, the one...All Please Kill Me PostsArtHistoryInterviewsNewsPhotography·2 Comments
MANCHESTER’S UNITED: BUZZCOCKS’ STEVE DIGGLE SPEAKS HIS MIND Amy Haben·August 1, 2019The brainy and witty Buzzcocks guitarist Steve Diggle opens up about the origins of punk in Manchester, the...All Please Kill Me PostsAmy HabenInterviewsMusiciansNews·2 Comments
HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN: J.G. BALLARD IN THE 1970s Jeremy Reed·August 6, 2019The novelist J.G. Ballard created language so unique that, according to renowned poet and novelist Jeremy Reed, he...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksHistory·1 Comment
FRAME OF MIND: 20 YEARS OF THE DC MUSIC SCENE Sharon M. Hannon·August 8, 2019When Antonia Tricarico moved from her native Italy to Washington D.C. in 1997, she felt a kinship with...All Please Kill Me PostsHistoryMusiciansNewsPhotographySharon M. Hannon·1 Comment
JERRY LEWIS, J.D. SALINGER & THE JEWISH HOLDEN CAULFIELD Burt Kearns·August 12, 2019There were once two men named Jerry: Salinger and Lewis. And one of them wrote a famous novel,...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksBurt KearnsFilmHistory·0 Comments
COMPLIMENTS OF CHICAGO’S STREETS Peter Pavia·August 21, 2019A visually stunning new book details the history, rise and fall of “social athletic clubs” in Chicago, before...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksPhotography·1 Comment
JESSE MALIN: FROM D GENERATION TO REGENERATION Todd McGovern·August 26, 2019Like the Ramones, Jesse Malin grew up in Queens, one generation later. Steeped in Kiss, Elton John, The...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleInterviewsNewsTodd McGovern·1 Comment
THE MURDER OF ALFALFA Burt Kearns·August 27, 2019Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer was the most popular star of the classic Our Gang comedies. But the facts of...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfBurt KearnsCrimeFilmHistoryTV·7 Comments
WHEN JACK (KEROUAC) MET MAX (BODENHEIM) Paul Maher, Jr·September 2, 2019When the young Beat novelist (Kerouac) met the old bohemian poet (Bodenheim) in 1951, they were headed in...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksHistory·3 Comments
JORDAN: DEFYING GRAVITY AT THE DAWN OF PUNK Amy Haben·September 5, 2019Working in Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s Sex shop on King’s Road in London at the dawn of...All Please Kill Me PostsAmy HabenCool PeopleInterviewsNews·2 Comments
JABBERJAW: WHEN AN L.A. CLUB CREATED ITS OWN SCENE Lucretia Tye Jasmine·October 1, 2019What started as an all-ages coffee bar and acoustic venue in 1989 turned into a must-play showcase for...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfHistoryLucretia Tye Jasmine·0 Comments