by Rob Azevedo Dear Willy, Jenny told me you called the other night. You sounded beaten, like someone had taken a rivet gun to your insides. And before she had the chance to tell me you got laid off from your rugging job, I knew life had you licking the curb. There was […]
By: Darrin Kerr We are the Great Nation Born of independence Become the oppressor The land of opportunity The opportunity to shiver in the streets while hungry The opportunity to walk in space, but not in our inner cities The opportunity to work hard and remain poor We are laws without […]
by Ron Whitehead visited Springfield flew to Louisville drove Bardstown Road to St. Catharine College then on to The Starving Artist Cafe Welcome to Springfield, Kentucky wandered Main street side streets lost for hours small suitcase weighed down with heavy words The Emancipation Proclamation The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln’s words […]
by Anthony Nowicke – originally appeared on Louisville.com May 8, 2014 Hunter S. Thompson was a talent all his own, a breed of genius rarely seen. Tom Wolfe, the godfather of New Journalism, compared Thompson to none other than Mark Twain, calling Thompson “the century’s greatest comic writer.” Thompson grew […]
by Mark Linnhoefer A foul stench in professional journalism… …is slowly creeping up the nose of anyone in the field that has followed the events of the past few days. The horrors of Paris are still haunting the media landscape, the wounds are still fresh, and the question the seems […]
By: Donnie Casto II “The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.” – H.L. Mencken The blood of innocent lives has been shed in France. Paris, it seems, has suffered their equal to our very own ‘Boston Massacre’, an event in which the […]
By: Jeroen Melis 08.01.2015 The day after, people are claiming to be Charlie right now. They have never written, drawn or said any word of sense before. Social media users proclaim ‘Je suis Charlie’ (‘I am Charlie‘) after terror attack kills 12 at Charlie Hebdo magazine office in Paris. Inside […]
By: Ron Whitehead “I write this poem for the victims in Paris today, for all victims of the freedom of speech and of the press, for all victims of freedom, for all who stand up and speak out for freedom, equality, peace and justice for all, for the non-violent spiritual […]
By: Rob Azevedo The sound coming from inside The Woodpecker Lounge was a mixture of brilliance and raw nerve. Last Breath’s legendary blues man, Dick Zaino, was setting off rockets with his red Stratocaster, gassing through songs about guilt and suffering, belting out one after another, looking lean and tanned, his hair slicked sweet, eyes […]
By Maven Cade Leary “God Dammit! Not Again!” I cursed at the world, grateful in the knowledge no sane God could possibly be listening to my bullshit. And even if one could be, it is highly unlikely that he/she would be. Between me and the seven or whatever billion humans […]
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