Cover Star: Poptastic covers of vintage British TV comic ‘Look-In’
Get them young and you’ll have them for life. That was the maxim when I worked in television. It was called “creating brand loyalty,” which…
Author: Paul Gallagher
That time Salvador Dali met Sigmund Freud
Before Salvador Dali met Sigmund Freud during the summer of 1938 in London, the great Surrealist artist had tried unsuccessfully on several occasions to meet…
Boho Life: Photographs of a young Patti Smith (NSFW-ish)
When Patti Smith first met Judy Linn they were two young artists just starting out on their careers. It was one-nine-six-eight. Smith was a poet,…
Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ was his sly way of calling attention to the poor of Victorian England
So, this is Christmas and…no matter what you’ve done, may I wish you all the very best Compliments of the Season, Happy Holidays and a…
Fellini originally wanted to cast the Beatles, Mae West, Groucho Marx and Danny Kaye in ‘Satyricon’
In 1968, Federico Fellini decided he was going make the greatest homosexual movie ever made. What he meant by a homosexual movie, no one was…
Incredible photographs of L.A.’s punks, mods and rockers from the 1980s
Most journalists, bloggers, writers, and what-have-yous hope to find that one special thing very few people know about and get the opportunity to bring it…
Watch underground filmmaker Nick Zedd’s director’s cut of ‘The Reckoning’ by the Greys
The Greys: may or may not be a band from New York that are now a one or two-person operation working out of Mexico City.…
William S. Burroughs’ ‘Blade Runner: A Movie’
1879: Doctor Benway is addressing a crowd of cowboys in the arid deserts of Nevada. ‘”Now, boys, lissen-up, I have two things for sale today.…
Sex, Nazis, and classical music: Ken Russell’s ‘Lisztomania’
Scene: Opening titles. A group of sunny So-Cal cheerleaders kick and shake: “Give it an L. Give it an I. Give an S. Give it…
‘Our Hobby is Depeche Mode’: Exclusive premiere of the ‘lost’ Depeche Mode documentary
Sometimes things get lost because it’s easier that way. Like Jeremy Deller’s and Nicholas Abrahams’ 2007 documentary on Depeche Mode fans called Our Hobby is…