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This Ain’t No Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980-1995 By James Lough New York’s Chelsea Hotel has a special place in American culture. It has surely been a home, or a home-away-from-home, to more influential artists... read more »
“Punk: Chaos to Couture” Costume Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York (The exhibit runs until August 14, 2013.) “…I, Jackie Duluoz,…big punk…” Doctor Sax Punk was anti-fashion, so the notion of punk couture... read more »
We recently passed a watershed moment in modern American literature, as November, 2012, marked sixty years since John Clellon Holmes introduced the term “Beat Generation” in the New York Times Magazine. To many, this is the sum of all Holmes... read more »
“It’s a sad and beautiful world.” Down by Law a 1986 black-and-white indie comedy starts with gorgeous shots of real life, low-lying New Orleans and two beat characters: Zack the DJ (Tom Waits) and Jack the pimp... read more »
One of the many rewarding aspects of editing Beatdom is that of reading a fine new piece of writing or viewing a great new art submission. Sometimes readers send works which are not intended for publication but are wondrous and shared simply... read more »
Sweets for the sweet: Vincent Gallo is Buffalo 66’s director, star, writer, and composer, but Layla (Christina Ricci) is the cream in the puff, the cherry on the sundae, and the jelly in the donut. She’s a lush movie delight, so innocent... read more »
Is this a punk flick? Maybe a beat-punk film? Celluloid where punk and beat meet? Characters are beat, get beaten, there’s a beat hotel, but a punk by any name is still a punk. Drugstore Cowboy is a great little American movie set in 1971... read more »
“Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg” at the Grey Art Gallery New York University January 15 – April 6, 2013, New York, NY By GK Stritch “Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg” at the Grey Art Gallery New... read more »
Edited and with an Introduction by Bill Morgan. At the point this second volume of his Collected Letters opens, William S. Burroughs has been living outside of the USA for the best part of a decade, now settled in the “Beat Hotel”... read more »
Herbert Huncke was the man who brought the word “beat” to the Beat Generation. He was a New York hustler, the sort of cool street cat that these college kids needed to bring them in touch with reality. He was their gateway to the... read more »
Barbara Spalding:
What The Sea Gives
Down by the sea the
Beautiful grey-blue sea I
Will give y...
Rik:
Excellent poem. Thank you....
Jai:
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Great poem! Thanks.
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marie-francoise:
Hello Christina
I am sorry to hear about your health issues. I hope that trea...
gk stritch:
And the Hippos is quite engaging. Highly recommended for those compelled by the ...
