Give me your music, your art, your huddled masses of words and rhythms yearning to breathe free.
Dana Spiardi 
The government of Richard Nixon spent thousands of taxpayer dollars, installed loads of surveillance equipment, and employed countless FBI agents in its four-year effort to deport America-loving peacenik John Lennon, whom they considered a major threat due to his left-wing political activism and relationships with anti-war “subversives.” It all started when the former Beatle and … Read more
Guido Barilla, president of the world’s largest manufacturer of boxed pasta, has vowed his company would never feature homosexuals in its ads: “I would never make a spot with a homosexual family,” he said yesterday on Italy’s radio program La Zanzara (The Mosquito). “Not out of a lack of respect but because I do not … Read more
Beatles’ drummer Ringo Starr was so determined that his eldest son NOT follow in his footsteps that he gave the kid but one drum lesson in his entire life. Zak Starkey, who turns 48 today, would have to master the skill all by himself…with a little help from his dad’s good mate, Keith Moon of … Read more
“Don’t take your horns to town.” Mom always told me that (she loved that good human, Johnny Cash). You know, almost all goats – both billies and nannys – are born with horns. Some of our human rulers remove our beautiful crowns by burning them off with a hot iron. It’s called disbudding, and we … Read more
German filmmaker Werner Herzog, who turns 71 today, directed actor Klaus Kinski in his two most acclaimed motion pictures – Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, The Wrath of God. Kinski is regarded as one of the most temperamental – some would say insane – actors of the past 50 years. Kinski continually wreacked havoc on the set … Read more