Fifty years ago–in the perfect pop culture year of 1966–Woody Allen did his first film project for American International Pictures, home to Roger Corman, monsters,…
William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece, The Exorcist, was a landmark in horror cinema, a cultural phenomenon, and (if adjusting for inflation) the ninth highest-grossing film of…
Okay, so it’s Monday… That’s bad enough already, but it’s also a Monday in January and much of the eastern part of the US of…
Jean-Jacques Burnel and Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers on the stage at Battersea Park in London, September 16th, 1978 Back in 1977, the members of…
’50s Portland horror hostess, Tarantula Ghoul Everyone knows about Vampira, the 1950s TV horror movie hostess whose iconic character drew influence from the Morticia character…
Vienna, world capital of classical music and opera, might have more musicians per capita than any other major city. It certainly feels that way when…
The magazine version of the controversial advertising campaign for Black and Blue from 1976 In 1976, the Rolling Stones released Black and Blue, their first…
It’s ten years old and has been viewed over three million times, but I’m constantly surprised that whenever I reference this thing in conversation, no…
Giorgio Gomelsky with a young Eric Clapton looking on. Giorgio Gomelsky died of cancer earlier today. He was 82. Gomelsky opened London’s Crawdaddy Club in…
You know those Pink Floyd laser shows that set trippy visuals to either the entire Dark Side Of The Moon album or to a hodgepodge…