When I heard that Texas guitar virtuoso Stevie Ray Vaughan had died in a helicopter crash in August of 1990, I lived in a dorm room with a suitemate that… Read the rest of the article: Video: Is Stevie Ray Vaughan saying that Jimi Hendrix was murdered?
In 2020, Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl), about skateboarding in Afghanistan and produced by Elena Andreicheva and Carol Dysinger, won the Oscar and British Academy… Read the rest of the article: Watch the Oscan-winning short documentary "Learning To Skate In A War Zone (If You're A Girl)"
As more stories emerge about the many lives of George Santos, you may need to check out the Handbasket's Substack, "The Daily Santos," by Brooklyn-based freelance writer, political strategist, activist, investigative reporter,… Read the rest of the article: The Daily Santos, a substack dedicated entirely to the GOP's new superstar liar
"The night is more richly colored then the day" Art Overnight (art_overnight) reminds us that right now, there are street artists hard at work transforming the walls, sidewalks, cracks, and… Read the rest of the article: Cool graffiti: Art Overnight's dancing bear in a tunnel
Alex Gibney's 2007 Oscar-winning documentary, Taxi To the Dark Side, first revealed how the FBI, CIA, and the military, with the knowledge of elected officials and security agents of the… Read the rest of the article: The Forever Prisoner, a documentary about the US torture machine by Alex Gibney
"The Girl from Ipanema" is the second most recorded song in the history of recorded songs, next to "Summertime" by George Gerwin. Then 22-year-old Astrud Gilberto made the song (about… Read the rest of the article: Astrud Gilberto vs. the patriarchy of Bossa Nova
"People didn't want us to forget about Joy Division. That's what we were trying to do" – Peter Hook. "It's like dancing in the rain. That's what I think about… Read the rest of the article: LSD, New Order, and 40 years of "Power, Corruption, and Lies."
Award-winning playwriter, performance artist, director, and producer Virginia Grise has teamed up with producer and conceptual embroidery artist Maricella Infante to create "A Todo Dar Productions." A todo dar means… Read the rest of the article: Theater in unexpected places with artists Virginia Grise and Maricella Infante
George Zimmerman profiled Trayvon Martin by making assumptions about his appearance and clothing, negative meanings intended to criminalize and then justify Zimmerman killing Martin, while claiming self-defense. Remember, Zimmerman not only… Read the rest of the article: See what the White Collar Crime Early Warning System (WCCEWS) thinks of your neighborhood
In the opening scene of Guardians of the Galaxy, Star-Lord, played by Chris Pratt, punches a button on his Walkman and slides, dances, and saunters to the music, at one… Read the rest of the article: Watch Native American rock band Redbone perform "Come out and get your love" (1974)
Since the 1970s, Judith Heumann has worked tirelessly for human rights and dignity, for "equal rights in an unequal world" for disabled people. Working with non-profits, NGOs, and community-based groups,… Read the rest of the article: Rolling Warrior: a polio survivor's memoir of fighting for disability rights
The Magna Carta, the Great Charter, or the Big Letter, signed by King John on June 15, 1215, at Runnymede, a meadow by the River Thames, to make peace with… Read the rest of the article: English commoners' rights come from The Charter of the Forest, not the Magna Carta
Martin Bullock, a "wildlife and pet photoshopper" from British Colombia, creates "animals that don't exist" – and probably never should. Clever, cute, disturbing abominations, his photoshopped intra-species critter mashups are… Read the rest of the article: Martin Bullock photoshops cute nightmare hybrid creatures
For seven television seasons, some follow-up movies, and other projects, Canadian musician and actor Mike Smith played "Bubbles" (and co-wrote) in the mockumentary comedy/drama The Trailer Park Boys. Before the… Read the rest of the article: Bubbles covers David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World."
PM Press has just released Where Are the Elephants?, the new memoir by the prolific and widely recorded English songwriter, folk singer, and children's author Leon Rosselson. "Fierce and funny,… Read the rest of the article: "Where Are the Elephants?" is Leon Rosselson's memoir
From earth, you come and earth you shall return, or some such humanistically grounded scientific phrase leads to a scientifically grounded human question: how many homo sapiens have come from… Read the rest of the article: How many people have lived on the earth since the proverbial dawn of time?
Skateboarding continues to circulate and reform the transitions of concrete, wood, and metal across the globe, hopping curbs and fences, flying and twirling across the air, and, like stoked acrobats,… Read the rest of the article: Skateboarding in The West Bank, Palestine, Walls Cannot Keep Us From Flying.
Pop culture, capitalism, and entertainment in the 1990s created unanticipated and strange fellow travelers. In this clip of outtakes from Saturday Night Live, posted by Nirvana Biglove, NBA star Charles… Read the rest of the article: Charles Barkley's 1993 contact high and Nirvana's SNL outtake
With coastal swells that locals have indicated have not happened since the 1990s, California's shorelines have experienced unprecedented participation by "the atmospheric river" in the reclaiming of the continent and… Read the rest of the article: Surfing the "atmospheric river's" ocean waves
Sri Lankan mangroves are the home for fishing cats. As the mangroves have been devastated by human activity (poachers), environmental catastrophes, and climate change "…there is one creature in these… Read the rest of the article: Conservation efforts for the Sri Lankan cats that hunt underwater
