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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s

The boy I had been following in particular was Fernando Madrid, one of Lydia Madrid’s six kids. Fernando played hooky a lot ...

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Ernest Hemingway’s List of 16 Books Any Writer Should Read as a Part of Their Education

Plus Hemingway's tips on how to write as told to his one and only protégé ...

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Gerda Wegener’s Erotic Illustrations For Les Delassements d’Eros 1925 (NSFW)

Gerda Wegener caused a sensation with her gorgeous images of beautiful women - her art is equal to it ...

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Salvador Dali’s Christmas Cards for Hallmark and Hoechst Ibérica

For Christmas 1960, Spanish artist Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) designed greeting cards for Hallmark ...

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Out of the Shadows – Gerda Taro, War Photographer

Gerta Pohorylle adopted the professional name of "Gerda Taro" after the Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto although initially Taro and Capa shared the name "Robert Capa" derived from Endre Friedmann's Budapest street nickname "Cápa" which means "Shark" in Hungarian. A significant amount of what is credited as Robert Capa's early work was almost certainly photographed by Taro. ...

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Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...

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‘An Utterly Different City’ – London in 1973

Much of the food we tried in London -- and in England generally -- was bland, tasteless, and (in restaurants) overcooked, as we'd been told it would be. Saying no to it was easy. ...

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Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street

How Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter brought down the Tory Government! ...

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The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

In 1961, The New Yorker commissioned Arendt to report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem ...

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Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)

People I like can be divided into two groups: a) those who enjoy and get Charles M. Schulz’s wonderful Peanuts comic strip; b) those fools who don't. All of human life is in the artist and writer's 17,897 comic strips. In 1968 Schulz noticed the Civil Rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King ...

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