Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 02/2017

Pro-Sandinista rally, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, June 1979 Photographer: David Gonzalez Clearly the election of Donald Trump has revived interest in mass protest among the rank…

Enter the Dragon was released in Hong Kong six days after the death of its unforgettable star, Bruce Lee. A month later it debuted in…

There’s little doubt that AI and robots pose a very interesting challenge to the assumptions human beings have about work, utility, wages, and productivity. “Labor-saving”…

When MTV ran the world in the 1980s and a few years after, it was de rigueur for bands to release VHS video compilations. The…

From 1977 to 2000, one of the strongest voices in the zine community was an artist and writer going by the name “Teen Angel.” Several…

Despite what recent political rhetoric would have you believe, terrorism is hardly the sole property of Muslims from the Middle East. Timothy McVeigh and his…

The recovery of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros since its near-extinction in the early 20th century has been a remarkable boon for our planet’s ecosystem–even as…

There’s a website out there claiming that in 1992 some company printed a set of 21 Valentine’s Day cards, each with a picture and come-hither…

Rule of thumb, the earlier a Marx Brothers movie was made, the better it probably is. The initial impulse of the brothers’ manic energy and…

There’s no movie quite like Barbarella, the delicious sci-fi allegory about sex and war, based on the Jean-Claude Forest comic book of the same name.…