Tag Archives: punk

This Is Punk

May 9, 2013 – 8:19 pm

Richard Hell “I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldn’t see where to go with it that wouldn’t be fatal.” I’m glad Richard Hell survived the years. THE TROUBLE If this were everything I wanted it to be It still wouldn’t be what I want it to be.

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Punk Is In

May 9, 2013 – 7:13 pm

This Spring New York City is going retro-Ramones thanks to a Metropolitan Museum exhibition featuring Punk Fashion. In 1975 the only stores to buy punk clothing were Trash n Vaudeville and Manic Panic run by Sick Fucks’ Snooky and Tish. Manic Panic closed years ago, however Trash n Vaudeville on St. Marks Place remains the […]

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LOS ANGELES by X

October 22, 2012 – 7:45 pm

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Whiskey A Go Go

October 22, 2012 – 7:13 pm

I saw this poster somewhere and thought, “How cool.” Th Whisky à Go-Go on the Sunset Strip was made famous by the mini-skirted DJ Rhonda Lane, who danced in a cage during Johnny Rivers’s set, thus giving birth to the go go girl. The Miracles scored a 1966 hit with GOING TO A GO GO […]

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MAYBE TOMORROW – A novel by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 2

August 18, 2012 – 10:17 am

The clouded horizon buried the autumn sun and a moonless darkness soon smothered the Connecticut Hills with a wolfish gloom challenged only by the funnel of holiday traffic on the Interstate. Few travelers noticed the rundown motel hidden in the woods off exit 74. Its neon sign had been out of order since the summer. […]

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