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All Dolled Up!!  

A New York Dolls Story – Found Tapes: In the early 70’s Bob Gruen and his wife Nadya Beck bought a video camera and filmed around 40 hours of footage from the New-York Dolls. This is a must see!!   Artist Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine The New York Dolls created punk rock before there […]

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Sadako vs. Kayako Teaser Trailer

  Though a teaser trailer for The Ring vs. The Grudge (aka Sadako vs. Kayako) was already released, today we’re getting to a more complete glimpse into the meeting of the two scariest late 90s/early 00s Japanese cinematic spirits with exceedingly distinctive gaits. Kadokawa and NBCUniversal’s mashup film originated last year as an April Fool’s […]

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Interview with Sterling Morrison

This interview conducted by Gregg Barrios was originally printed in Fusion, March 6, 1970. Sterling Morrison was once described as the most underrated person living. He has been with The Velvet Underground since the dawn of history and hopefully will continue in that capacity forever. He was also called indomitable as well as an astute Italian duke. In any case, he […]

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Ron Galella

SMASH HIS CAMERA! by Roger Ebert He is a viper, a parasite, a stalker, a vermin. He is also, I have decided, a national treasure. Ron Galella, the best known of all paparazzi, lost a lawsuit to Jackie Kennedy Onassis and five teeth to Marlon Brando, but he also captured many of the iconic photographs […]

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Post-Mortem Photography

Sleeping Beauties By today’s standards the practice of post-mortem photography (also known as memorial portraiture or mourning portrait) might be considered somehow creepy but once put in its proper context, it will come out as a completely different picture. Post-mortem photography is the taking of a photograph of a deceased loved one and was a normal part of American and […]

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