Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 10/2016

As with any creative superstar, Prince’s career had several distinct phases–the video that makes up the subject of this post comes from an ill-defined stretch…

In Russian tattoos, the cat symbolizes a successful thief It was just a couple of weeks ago that we brought you old-school ceramics with pictures…

America’s Funniest Home Videos (and its international offshoots) might represent the most lucrative user-generated content project in history–until the arrival of Facebook and YouTube, anyway.…

The 1980s were a miserable decade for standup comedy–based on the incredible success of men like Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, and Robin Williams, all of…

Last year DM alerted readers to the possibility of viewing all twenty-five episodes of the classic local music show that ran on Los Angeles area…

In 1973, French publisher Felicie published a singular cookbook by Salvador Dalí. The volume was pure Dalí. First off, it was hardly a cookbook, it…

A Tribe Called Quest, reworking of Fantastic Four #49 (April 1966), “If This Be Doomsday!” The Silver Surfer must choose between his master and the…

Fashion photographer Steven Sebring exhaustively documented Patti Smith’s wanderings for 11 years after her return to public life in 1995. Of his movie Dream of…

Several years before the Fugs formed, Tuli Kupferberg was running around Greenwich Village as a poet and pamphleteer. His most successful effort was a 1961…

There’s a certain unadorned beauty to the voiceover pitch in this commercial for a deeply puzzling 900 number consisting solely of shots of people crying…