Author: Howie Pyro

This isn’t horror‑camp—it’s delirious subversion.

NOTE: This post, written by the late Howie Pyro, was originally published in 2020, when For the Love of a Glove had just opened. It’s…

Julien Nitzberg. Shit-stirrer, rebel director, artist, punk rocker and genius are some titles bestowed on this forward-thinking, back-slapping smart-ass. You might know him from his…

In Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground the sordid tale of the fetish world, this so-called “bizarre underground,” is revealed to be…

Well, since everyone is talking about wishing they could buy Glenn Danzig’s now iconic house since yesterday’s popular Dangerous Minds post–good news! We all can!…

I had heard about this impossible-to-see episode of The Name of the Game–a cutting edge television show that ran for seventy-six 90-minute episodes from 1968…

It was fifty years ago this week that the future began with the Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol, and his banana. The destruction and rebuilding of…

Like science fiction becoming reality, or worse, satire becoming reality, this 1968 off-Broadway musical–or to quote the subtitle, this “dirty politics musical”–immediately opens eyes very…

Hey America! Here’s a wild Donald Trump-inspired playlist that all the hip kids are tuning into! I did an expanded version of this on my…

The many roads that led to the happening that was to be referred to as “punk” are varied and often way more interesting than punk…