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Lou Reed 71 RIP

October 27, 2013 – 2:44 pm

I never saw the Velvet Underground or heard Lou Reed live. Those gaps were added to missing Woodstock or opting to see Sha-Na-Na instead of David Bowie in 1971, but one spring night in 1970 I was lying on the sofa with my high school sweetheart. Kyla’s mother was out with her Portugese boyfriend and […]

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Ken Norton RIP

September 19, 2013 – 7:03 am

In 1973 an unheralded heavyweight from San Diego fought a 12-round match with Muhammad Ali. The former champion was a huge 5-1 favorite against Ken Norton, but from round 1 the ex-marine dominated his opponent, breaking Ali’s jaw in the 12th round. The judges gave the upset decision to Norton. He was not so lucky […]

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Mark Kamins RIP

February 17, 2013 – 5:59 pm

I was stunned to hear that Mark Kamins had passed away in Guadalajara, Mexico. The legendary DJ had discovered Madonna at Danceteria and spun discs all around the world. The famed singer told Billboard, “I’m very sorry to hear about Marks death. I haven’t seen him for years but if it weren’t for him, I […]

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Barney Johnson LIVING FOREVER

January 30, 2013 – 10:10 pm

Last night I attended a wake for a fellow atheist. The service was at a Ukrainian Funeral Home in the East Village. Barney and I had met in 1978. He was my boss at Hurrah, a punk disco on West 62nd Street. He survived the era of errors to be a proudly gay man with […]

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Gore Vidal RIP

August 4, 2012 – 2:33 am

Gore Vidal passed away at the tender age of 86. The provocative novelist wrote twenty-five novels on social and historical issues. My favorite book was 1876 about the stolen election between Samuel Tilden and the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, which harbingered the flawed 2000 election between GW Bush and Al Gore, whom was a distant […]

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