Written in Mexico 1952 but not published until 1959, Dr. Sax is Jack Kerouac’s most enigmatic novel. Incorporating themes from New England heroes Melville and Hawthorne, Kerouac revisits boyhood scenes in Lowell, Mass., in rich, hallucinogenic prose.…

I established my drinking/fashion ethic in my mid-teens, during the ‘70s, just outside Boston, in the city of Lynn. It is notorious, not because it was home to historic figures and rock stars, or that the Boston Strangler was ultimately caught there,…

Betty White, Mike Nesmith and Dwayne “Dobie Gilli’s” – Why These People Were (and Still Are) Cultural Icons The end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 were marked by a mass exodus of elders from the planet. Some of us may have felt a passing bit of…

Drink is a necessary accessory. What you drink, where you drink, how you drink and with whom are strong indicators of who you are, how much you know, and to which tribe you belong. From ripped jeans and cans of PBR to basic black and a dirty martini,…

Veronica Lewis is a true individual. If you haven’t heard of her by now, you’re going to and you’ll be impressed and inspired in a very big way. Smack dab in the middle of a woe-is-us pandemic, 17-year-old Veronica Lewis has broken the charts with…

By the time Jack Kerouac died at 47 in 1969, he’d exiled himself from the 1960s youth culture he’d partly inspired with the likes of On the Road and The Dharma Bums. Bloated by booze and reactionary politics, he bore little resemblance to that…

Reg and Ron Kray were the OTHER Glimmer Twins of the Swinging Sixties in London. Notorious gangsters, murderers and sadistic club owners, they were the yen to Mick and Keith’s yang but, for a time, they were part of the same hip milieu. The Krays…

This Halloween, let your playlist reflect the fact that rock & roll has always been permeated with occult archetypes, and its dark subject matter has inspired many a song from the ridiculous to the sublime. The truth is, from the beginning, it has…

Lucien Carr wasn’t just the person who brought Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs together in New York, he also provided a “New Vision”—the name of his manifesto—around which this circle could initially unite, before they became…