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Fiction: Afterlife Volume 2 (Chapter 21)

by Mike Monroe March 21, 2016

If you’ve never read Afterlife before, click here to go to the first chapter. Photo via. Afterlife is a sci fi/western action serial published every other week. Join us in a post-apocalyptic journey through a future where life has become little more than a struggle for survival. However, where there’s life, there’s always hope.

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Fiction: Afterlife Volume 2 (Chapter 20)

by Mike Monroe March 7, 2016

If you’ve never read Afterlife before, click here to go to the first chapter. Photo via. Afterlife is a sci fi/western action serial published every other week. Join us in a post-apocalyptic journey through a future where life has become little more than a struggle for survival. However, where there’s life, there’s always hope.

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Fiction: Afterlife Volume 2 (Chapter 19)

by Mike Monroe February 22, 2016

If you’ve never read Afterlife before, click here to go to the first chapter. Photo via Afterlife is a sci fi/western action serial published every other week. Join us in a post-apocalyptic journey through a future where life has become little more than a struggle for survival. However, where there’s life, there’s always hope.

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Cab Spotting

by Tony Shea February 21, 2016

Counting cabs on Saturday February 20, 2016 from the second floor window of the NYC public library on W. 114th St. and Broadway from 1:24 p.m. until 1:26 p.m. when the security guard became suspicious and asked me to stop. How many cabs do you count? A:25 B:28 C:29 or D:[See the answer below]: NOTE: […]

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Lockin’ with Hip-Hop’s own Fred Astaire: Shabba-Doo (aka “Ozone” from Breakin’)

by Nate "Chops" Johnson February 19, 2016

Within minutes of walking into Shabba-Doo’s dance class for the first time, I could tell that his sessions weren’t a “vanity project”; i.e. staging generic dance classes to make money just because he has a big name in the industry. He actually does care that his students learn something by the end of the hour. […]

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Fiction: Afterlife Volume 2 (Chapter 18)

by Mike Monroe February 8, 2016

If you’ve never read Afterlife before, click here to go to the first chapter. Photo via Afterlife is a sci fi/western action serial published every other week. Join us in a post-apocalyptic journey through a future where life has become little more than a struggle for survival. However, where there’s life, there’s always hope.

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William Burroughs 102

by Tony Shea February 5, 2016

image via America’s ultimate “Junkie”, William Burroughs would have been 102 today. One of the primo Beat writers along with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Paul Bowles, Burroughs was an unrepentant drug addict for most of his life, traversing some truly weird cerebral territory along the way and somehow living to be 83 years old, […]

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Lux Interior is Dead – Long Live Lux Interior

by Tony Shea February 4, 2016

His parents called him Erick Lee Purkhiser, but everybody else knew him as Lux Interior. The frontman for psychobilly inventors The Cramps died on this day back in 2009 at the age of 62. While not as well-known as some of his contemporaries including Iggy Pop, the Ramones, and The Misfits, Lux Interior was every […]

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Stars Turn Out to Celebrate Arthur Miller

by Tony Shea January 26, 2016

Arthur Miller would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. To honor the great American playwright the Arthur Miller Foundation for Theater and Film Education kicked off its inaugural benefit event last night at Broadway’s Lyceum Theater. The event was a star-studded affair featuring a bevy of Hollywood mainstays including Bradley Cooper, Alec Baldwin, Peter […]

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Fiction: Afterlife Volume 2 (Chapter 17)

by Mike Monroe January 25, 2016

If you’ve never read Afterlife before, click here to go to the first chapter. Photo via Afterlife is a sci fi/western action serial published every other week. Join us in a post-apocalyptic journey through a future where life has become little more than a struggle for survival. However, where there’s life, there’s always hope.

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Silver Screams are Triumphant

by Tony Shea January 17, 2016

Silver Screams finished the last leg of their tour last night in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, playing a triumphant show at The Grand Victory. The rowdy crowd was more than ready for the band’s raucous blend of hardcore/post-punk/rock and roll. And the band did not disappoint, tearing through their set with absolutely ferocious efficiency, sprinkling in some […]

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By Grabthar’s Hammer! Remembering Alan Rickman

by Bill Chott January 15, 2016

You may not know my name, but you’ve probably seen me as “that guy” in dozens of projects on TV and film. I played a very small role in the film Galaxy Quest. I was the nerd at the convention who gets his autograph from (Alan Rickman’s character) Sir Alexander Dane and proudly announces, “By […]

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Where I Stand – Bowie Bids Farewell – Hollywood Blvd

by Nate "Chops" Johnson January 14, 2016

Like everyone else in the world, I woke up Monday morning to the unexpected news that David Robert Jones (aka David Bowie) had passed away after an 18 month battle with cancer. I got the news from a friend right at the very end of a Snapchat video, so it didn’t really register with me […]

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