Casa Susanna: Charming casual pix of a cross-dressers’ haven in the 1950s and 1960s
“Casa Susanna” was the name of a house in Hunter, New York, a town that is a good hour-plus north of Poughkeepsie, which is itself…
Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 10/2014
Listen to ‘Montage of Heck,’ Kurt Cobain’s mind-blowing music montage–made years before his fame
Nobody better represented the young, angry, art school punk better than Kurt Cobain–a glance at his Journals is enough to convince that his desire to…
Camper Van Beethoven covers Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Tusk’ in its entirety, 1987 (well, actually 2001)
Few bands could generate a good mood as deftly as Camper Van Beethoven did–I keep wanting to call their low-key gems a “hoot.” An likeable…
Talking Heads: Max Headroom interviews Sting and David Byrne
Max Headroom, now there was a weird-ass experiment. In hindsight the digital character is the very definition of a “curio.” It takes only a few…
Watch it now: Spalding Gray’s 1986 monologue ‘Terrors of Pleasure’
I was re-watching And Everything Is Going Fine the other day, Steven Soderbergh’s touching tribute to Spalding Gray, and it made me happy and sad…
Krautrock for Athletes: What 70s East German Olympians just might have listened to while training
I have to admit, they had me going there for a while…. I thought it was real. I stumbled on the Bandcamp page for the…
FUG YOU! The Fugs invade Cleveland, 1967
On May 14, 1967, a benefit was held in Cleveland to assist two local figures on the local literary scene, bookseller James Lowell and poet…
Rich kids and poor kids of Tehran duke it out on Instagram
One of the enduring lessons of the Internet, if not life itself, is that if you’re rich you have to take care about how you…
Cartoonists document Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
Art by Luis Simoes The last few days have seen no small amount of drama in Hong Kong, as disenfranchised students are calling attention to…