Allen Ginsberg. Jack Kerouac. William Burroughs. Lucien Carr.
Lucien Carr?
Carr may be less familiar than the others—all icons of the Beat Generation—but he apparently played an important role in the literary movement’s birth. That...
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21 November 2013
I was in the second grade at Highland Avenue Elementary School in Columbus when President Kennedy was assassinated. The principal made the announcement over the loud speaker, and school was dismissed. I walked the short distance home and...
21 November 2013
Oh tosh, it has begun.
I realize, of course, that I should have been expecting it. But, alas, I was caught off guard.
When I walked into the supermarket last night, there it was: the jingling of that bloody bell in the hands of a...
21 November 2013
On the 31st of July, Yellow Springs Ohio was the site of a major police operation that involved multiple agencies. The resulting standoff left one resident dead from police gunfire and residents with serious questions about police conduct...
14 November 2013
The Columbus International Film & Video Festival closes out this weekend with an array of award winning films from around the world. The Festival, the longest running in the US, started last Thursday and continues through Sunday....
14 November 2013
The early heroes of the AIDS epidemic were honored in How to Survive a Plague, a 2012 documentary that focused on efforts to pressure health officials to devote more resources to fighting the disease.
Dallas Buyers Club dramatizes the...
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