Patti Smith performing at CBGB on the club’s closing night
Patti Smith in front of CBGB on Oct. 15, 2006 Today is Patti Smith’s birthday and a little over five years since CBGB’s closed. So…
History Archives: 12/2011
‘No One Cares’: Short documentary on the regeneration of Liverpool in the 1960s
It’s a myth still perpetuated by lazy BBC producers and bourgeois Guardianista’s that the 1960s in Britain was a golden decade of freedom, wealth, happiness…
Elvis Presley: “Santa Claus Is Back In Town” & “Blue Christmas”
The jungle room at Graceland all decked out with Christmas cheer. When he was cool, he was very cool. A black leather clad Elvis croons…
Ali MacGraw sells the Polaroid Swinger, from 1965
The Polaroid Swinger was one of the cutest cameras ever made. It was also the first inexpensive instant camera at only $19.95. Add to this…
Scott Walker is pissing himself, should win a special political Darwin Award!
This is THE BEST: Hapless Wisconsin governor Scott Walker wants people who protest his administration to pay for their First Amendment rights! He even wants…
All the World (and the Media) is Your Stage: Occupy Wall Street, Act II
The clueless conservatives chatterboxes on Fox News and AM talk radio cheering on the evictions of the rapidly dwindling in number Occupy sites around the…
Stanley Kubrick: Photographs of New York from the 1940s
Before he began directing films, Stanley Kubrick was a photo-journalist with Look magazine, starting his career in 1946, and was, apparently, their youngest photographer on…