(10.24) Sad news — John Brown is dead. This year the Rhode Island Historical Society takes a unique approach to What Cheer Day by reliving a day of mourning. Head over to “Celebrating the Life & Death of John Brown” and learn how affluent Rhode Islanders would have processed a death in the family in …
Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols, and the Ramones there was a band called Death. This pioneering ’70s proto-punk black Detroit band are the subject of a new music documentary ‘A Band Called Death’ opening tonight at the Cable Car. Formed in the 70’s by the teenaged Hackney brothers — Dannis on drums, Bobby on …
[youtube]TTOTop3At1c[/youtube] Pretty much everything in the world worth knowing can be found somewhere in this clip of Cyndi Lauper and the elastic-wearing Lou Albano on Rowdy Roddy Piper’s fake talk show from 1984. The big lug died this morning at the age of 76. Albano didn’t retire from the WWF until he was fifty-three, which …
[youtube]xuv_YcpM4nU[/youtube] I will forever remember Patrick Swayze for his role as the icky creep in Donnie Darko. And also for his #3 hit She’s Like The Wind, which I caught myself singing in the car the other day, even though it wasn’t actually on. Above is his film debut as Ace in Skatetown USA, which …
[youtube]9bOjc70f4p8[/youtube] Dear The Suddenly Late Jim Carroll, You recorded one of the stupidest, most irritatingly catchy songs ever, and then Leonardo DiCaprio played you in your biopic (which was a terrible, terrible movie.) That’s really all I know about you, though I guess you must have had some other more interesting qualities, right? But now, …
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[youtube]TnjwcKm83Ic[/youtube] Unless you’re really into the pop music of the sixties (or the name-dropping Portland indie band Parenthetical Girls), there’s a pretty good chance you’ve never heard of Ellie Greenwich. Surely you know some of the songs she wrote, though: “Be My Baby”, “Leader of the Pack”, “(Today I Met) The Boy I’m Going To …
If you’re looking to buy the perfect holiday gift for your favorite morbid celebrity-obsessed child, perhaps you might want to check out these Gone But Not Forgotten finger puppets, which remind us of those that passed away in 2008, including Jesse Helms, Heath Ledger, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. (Helms is the one with the Bible and …
From the Projo: The Rhode Island State Police yesterday unearthed what they believe are the remains of Joseph P. “Joe Onions” Scanlon, the onetime hood, police informant and victim of an infamous Rhode Island gangland slaying….In April 1978, Pari and Andrew Merola were arrested for whacking Scanlon in Merola’s Federal Hill social club in Providence. …
Jonathan Spencer, consultant forensic scientist and firearms expert, said that although the gun, which fires bullets at a speed of 399 feet a second, was tiny, it could still prove fatal and in the eyes of the law was as dangerous as a machine gun. He said: “The general threshold for perforating the skin is …
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