Through the collapse of the former Yugoslavia – through a decade of infection of pervading nationalism and through the storm of the worst battlefield on the European soil ever since World War II – the number of victims was the easiest topic for bickering among local politicians in post-Tudjman-Milošević era. […]
“I wanna glide down over Mulholland, I want to write her name in the sky. I wanna free fall out into nothin’. Gonna leave this world for awhile.” 1:35 PM PT — Sources tell us at 10:30 Monday morning a chaplain was called to Tom’s hospital room. We’re told the […]
I recently wrote an article on the riots in Charlottesville, VA. I was compelled to write the story, yet it was challenging, as I grew up in Charlottesville. My dad got his PhD at the University of Virginia. We kept season tickets to the football games. I had many of […]
Between 1830 and 1860, more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reached freedom thanks to networks of anti-slavery resistance — commonly known as the underground railroad. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Columbia University professor Eric Foner is out with a new book, “Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.” The […]
“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 […]
So what is Valentines Day? Where did it come from. What kind of terrible fucked up things from long ago do we now emulate in ignorance and bliss? Modern Valentine named after the Roman Christian Saint Valentine, carrying on the rituals of the old physical Roman Empire into the new […]
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