By Kyle K. Mann Here it comes in a few weeks: age 64. I’m retiring from the film biz, where I have been a Hollywood Union stagehand for a quarter century. It’s been fun, but I’m done. I am not going to live in some brain-deadening community and play shuffleboard. […]
“As you travel about the city of New York, please utilize your smartphones to photograph the homeless lying in our streets, aggressive panhandlers, people urinating in public or engaging in open-air drug activity, and quality-of-life offences of every type.” Leaders of New York City’s Sergeants Benevolent Association emailed members Monday, requesting they […]
By David Busboom art copyright Josh Chambers The thing began as a five-word text message: COME TO THE DOUDNA STEPS. I was down in Thomas Hall, working on a very tense and depressing one-act play for class, and after a week or so on the project I needed some excuse […]
By Marc D. Goldfinger The first thing I noticed after hugging the kids and wiping the tears away was the mound of plastic garbage bags in the middle of the living room—and the smell. The two big dogs circled around the garbage pile. I saw my daughter creeping under a […]
In 1967, Hunter S. Thompson sat down with author, historian, and broadcaster Studs Terkel on WFMT radio in Chicago. Below is the transcript, in two parts. Audio tracks have vanished. PART ONE
By Matt Byrum I’m an All American Poet. I have diplomatic immunity which protects me from the entire community. I drive out on the backroads of Georgia, Kentucky, the deserts of Nevada and California, burning through the wind
By Tony X Stanton art by Josh Chambers We were playing away rehearsing for a gig that would never happen when Wiggy the bass player started to smell smoke. As Wiggy normally appeared to be stoned into orbit most times, we ignored him and kept playing…badly. When the dense smoke […]
By Maven Cade Leary art by Dan Reece Life’s funny sometimes. It’s just something we say. But it’s true! And not in a haha kind of way, either. When you’re a kid, you just can’t wait to be an adult, free to do all the great and wonderful things that […]
“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the “good life”, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.” ― Hunter S. […]
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