“I wrote Penitentiary when I was doing time in penitentiary,” said Dr Mongo. “Oscar Wilde was one of my favorite poets at the time. 'The Ballad of Reading Jail' had a great
Day: November 17, 2024
The Garrison Theatre in Claremont, California was filled with the sound of Leonard Cohen’s voice pronouncing a word rarely heard in the United States: “commonwealth.” The text, not listed in the program
Jacques Mesrine was killed on the streets of Paris by French police in 1979. He has become a folk hero for many young urban people in France, especially those who live
“LA is famous for the palm tree and the beach and there is an amazing skyline downtown. I wanted to make a combination of all those elements. The road lined with palm
Over a period of 9 years from 1962 to 1970, the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia forced people of African and Jamaican descent out of Africville - a shoreline Canadian community over
The Los Angeles Film Festival moved downtown this Spring after 15 years in Westwood. One of the films, a documentary entitled Waiting for Superman, presents the failure of the public school system
“The beauty of the Rolling Stones is that each of the five guys feels the beat in a different place,” said Don Was at The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. "The music
Igor Kenk ran a notorious bike shop on Queen St West in Toronto called the Bicycle Clinic. People hung around the shop to watch him work and hear him talk about the
“Adults wage war on children,” said Miller. “How can a child defend himself against a dangerous or toxic parent? The child discovers that his only weapon or defence is imagination and it
For many years the elevated Central Freeway cut Hayes Valley in two, creating a dark urban space that attracted men driving around looking for sex workers and people buying and selling