The story of the West Memphis 3 is the kind of perversion of justice that fuels East and West Coast…
Phil Freeman
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David Bowie has always enjoyed an inflated reputation based primarily on being there first. He anticipated, and arguably initiated, the…
This Vader is not in any way affiliated with Darth Vader, Lucasfilm or any related entities. It’s a Polish death…
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Electronic music seems to have one specific, defining characteristic: it must be made on keyboard- or computer-based instruments, not with…
Just deciding to remake Point Blank was a big mistake on Mel Gibson’s part, but he compounded the error in…
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (2001), Norman G. Finkelstein Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in…
The PBS series Frontline has aired documentaries on all sorts of "controversial" subjects over the years, and they’ve finally gotten…
Its difficult to imagine a member of the rap group Wu-Tang Clan being familiar with Woody Allens Whats Up, Tiger…
The Ghastly One documentssometimes in excruciating detail and other times in a manner so telescoped as to lose the reader…
Punk didn’t die in 1980, when mainstream media stopped paying attention. It just went underground, sprouting up in small, insular…