Hillel Slovak was born in Israel but moved to America when he was just a child. He then became high school classmates with his future bandmates in Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis, Flea and Jack Irons. They'd regularly jam together, inspired by a mix of funk and punk. Gigs around...
"I got a mule, his name is Sal. Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal" My all-time favorite was Don Gato. Senior Don Gato was a cat. On a high red roof, Don Gato sat. He was there to read a letter meow, meow, meow. Where the reading light was better, meow, meow, meow. The loo...
But before all that, Boyd was a fashion model in swinging ‘60s London and, alongside Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton. That’s how, at 19 years old in 1964, she found herself auditioning for a secret project that turned out to be the Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night.That first day on s...
where they face 10 years or more in prison. Each is waiting for a welcome from the West that has never arrived. Instead, all but one live in hiding.
Sometimes this is actually rational. For instance, it’s 2024, and an election year. And we know what the fun, zany “experts” who have infested every institution and bureaucracy cooked up in 2020. The near future looks clown world, with a high possibility of crazy cakes, and the ...
heavy naval escorts would catch the Gulf Stream back to Seville on the Carrera de Indias, the Indies Route. (The same current brought the marlin that would lure fishermen like Ernest Hemingway centuries later, the fish traveling “like cars along a highway,” as he put it inEsquiremagazine....
s a daily struggle to feel in control of how people perceive you. Some days Ash is undoubtedly girl, but other times, 100 percent guy. Daniel lacks control too—of his emotions. He’s been told he’s overly sensitive more times than he can count. He can’t help the way he is, ...
He asked me what these birds looked like and said he had just seen a small gray bird fly under the overpass where Iron Creek went underneath the highway. So we kept looking and eventually we spotted it. What a small, fantastic bird it was! There really is no other bird like an ...
Though she sang gospel in church and worked as a backup singer, her career did not take off until she was 40, with the release of a single, “Damn It’s Hot.” As she sang on “I’m Still Here,” despite her show-stopping talent, she was continuously turned down by music ...
She starred in dozens of films in the 1950s and ‘60s, including “The Tender Trap” and “Tammy and the Bachelor”; had her own sitcom, “The Debbie Reynolds Show”; and became a bright light on the Vegas Strip. Her personal life also dominated headlines; her highly-publicized breakup ...