LOUISVILLE, KY (March 10, 2015) – GonzoFest Louisville is exactly one month away. This year’s festival returns on April 11 to Waterfront Park’s Harbor Lawn to celebrate its fifth year of honoring Hunter S. Thompson. Renowned Louisville sculptor, Matthew Weir has been selected as the statue artist for the life-size […]
GonzoFest Louisville, in collaboration with Revelry Boutique Gallery, is throwing a Gonzo Art Party in effort to raise funds for GonzoFest Louisville 2015. British artist and illustrator, Ralph Steadman was a long-time friend of Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman partnered with Thompson drawing illustrations for several of Thompson’s articles and books, and has provided art for GonzoFest […]
“The Bristol Bar and Grille is a great place for the Hunter S. Thompson banner! after the HST event in 96, I was at a late dinner with Hunter and some other folks at that very Bristol (he convinced them to seat a group of us altho it was long […]
I received an email from Ralph Steadman this morning. A pleasant surprise indeed. After scolding Ron Whitehead for introducing him to another Fat American Gabacho on the interweb he went on to give me several answers, but some of them to questions I may have never asked. Among them this […]
From Gonzo Today Poetry Editor Ron Whitehead Ralph Steadman has joined GonzoFest 2015 in our efforts to Bring Bill to the Ville!! he just sent me this: RON Here is my pic of Bill MURRAY as Hunter in Where the Buffalo Roam – where it all started……….Hope you can open […]
EXCERPT FROM RON WHITEHEAD’S PRESENTATION FOR HST’S INDUCTION IN THE KENTUCKY WRITERS HALL OF FAME ON JANUARY 28 “Back at the motel we talked for a while about America, the South, England – just relaxing a bit before dinner. There was no way either of us could have known, at […]
By Eduardo Ritter – Brazilian Journalist and PhD student Hunter S. Thompson. Doctor. Louisville. Kentucky. 2437 Ransdell Avenue. Ron Whitehead. Brazil. Cemetery. 36th Street. Old 502 Winery. Muhammad Ali. Rock ’n Roll. Blues. Poetry. Literature. Journalism. Gonzo Journalism. Kentucky Derby. GonzoFest 2014. All these words, and many others, never leave […]
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 Ron Whitehead i’m going straight bought myself a flat top haircut so stiff I can carry a tray of martinis waiting on people someone to open up her purse and give me a tip cause i don’t have a clue anymore as to what’s going on but i do […]
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