Interview: Pam Grier Author of Foxy: My Life in Three Acts
Grand Central Publishingwww.hatchettebookgroup.com A gentleman answers the phone. “Hello?” “Hi, can I please speak with Pam Grier?” “Just a minute.” Strains of opera music can be heard in the background. About a minute goes by, then faint shouting can be heard in the distance. “Pam!” There is a long pause. “Pam!” Another pause. “Pam!” Another […]
Feature: The Jazz Age: New perspectives on the era that begat Gatsby.
The Astaires: Fred & AdeleBy Kathleen Riley Oxford University Presswww.oup.com The shows written for the Astaires’ singular talents changed the very shape of the American musical. Their first major collaboration with George and Ira Gershwin, Lady, Be Good! in 1924, was, according to Gershwin biographer Howard Pollack, “one of the quintessential American theatrical works of […]
Excerpt: Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978 by Steve Crist and Hugh Holland
On a sunny L.A. day in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland was driving up Laurel Canyon Boulevard when he saw something he, and most everyone else, had never witnessed before. Something that made him stop his car and grab his camera. Because, out of the corner of his eye, it looked like one […]