Allen Ginsberg

Debauchery, Resurrected

Starck Contrast

Another new documentary on the Starck Club revisits the storied Dallas nightclub of the '80s

Hunter S. Thompson Lives Thanks to Dallas' Michael Minzer (and Tim Robbins)

Allen Ginsberg and Michael Minzer during recording sessions in 1987​Michael Minzer sent me an email earlier this week containing the good news: His long-in-the-works Hunter S. Thompson record is finished. Finally. This is the one mentioned two years ago in the Evergreen Review piece done on Minzer ... More >>

From the Curriculum: Some Higher-Ed News and Notes from SMU and UT-Dallas

SMU will host a conversation with the director of the Academy Award-winning doc The Times of Harvey Milk next week at the Angelika​SMU sends words of a media and human rights symposium set for next week -- which includes a tribute to director Rob Epstein, two-time Oscar winner for co-directing the ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Karen Finley and the Delicate Art of Disgust

In the summer of 1986, the Theatre Gallery was all about confronting the established aesthetic sensibilities of the comfortable arts patron. Basically, we loved to shock the shit out of people. Our venue existed to raise the bar on outrageousness and freedom of expression. Example: One of our ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Allen Ginsberg’s East Dallas Drive-By

Allen Ginsberg and Karen X. Minzer at the Starck Club in Dallas in 1986 Driving through East Dallas the other day I had the odd impulse to swing by the old KNON studio. Kind of depressing to see an empty lot taking up that space now. The studio was formerly located upstairs in a wooden 50’s-e ... More >>

Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown

I'm Not There and the changing face of Bob Dylan on film

Drop In

Come in, turn out, drop by for Timothy Leary's art

War on War

Almost four decades later, The Fugs' Ed Sanders is still fighting

Fighting Faith

Plus: A debt to the victims

Tortured Souls

Horribly abused children of the Hare Krishna movement seek justice--and peace--through a multimillion-dollar lawsuit

A Killer Abroad

In 1977, Tyler native Holly Maddux was murdered by Earth Day creator Ira Einhorn. More than two decades later, her family is still waiting for the fugitive to return.

Naked eye

Turn on and tune in to the Dallas Video Festival

On the Road, again

Two CDs devoted to Kerouac and Ferlinghetti give history a Beating

Book 'em

Separating the wheat from the chaff in this year's crop of rock-and-roll tomes

Lady of mystery

The statue doesn't look like a traditional Our Lady of Guadalupe, but its appearance is just the start of the puzzle

Cuba libre

Marc Ribot and his Prosthetic Cubans are Habana good time

Out There

The next generation?

For Lollapalooza, this may be the last generation

Events for the week

Paint it Black

Haunted by his mother's suicide, Dallas-born artist barron Storey has won fame drawing the darkness