Britain has historically been more a refugee-making country than a refugee-taking one. After celebrity football commentator Gary Lineker expressed his discomfort with the ugly rhetoric accompanying the Conservative government’s proposed “Illegal Migration Bill”, aimed at asylum seekers, the BBC took him off air. An obvious distraction from the widespread economic suffering in Britain and multiple allegations of Tory corruption, Prime …
Live from Brookside at the Rose Bowl, this weekend’s Cruel World music festival features some of the biggest names from the 1980s new wave and goth scenes, including honorary Angeleno Morrissey, English goth O.G.s Bauhaus and New York’s CBGB breakthrough stars Blondie, plus Devo, the Psychedelic Furs, the Violent Femmes, Australia’s Church and local legends 45 Grave and Christian Death. …
Had Coachella been held in the early 1980s, its lineup likely would have included many of the artists performing at this weekend’s Cruel World music festival in Pasadena. Bauhaus, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” There would be no goth movement without “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” a frenetic, cavernous post-punk masterpiece that, at nearly 10 minutes, was a dance-floor staple in darkened clubs. Blondie, …
We all have had dreams about turning a billionaire overnight, waking up to a world where we would not have to do our regular jobs to survive, and everything will be taken care of with the never-ending cash. While it sounds like a fantasy world, the dream almost turned true for this Georgian man named Chris Williamson. Chris had invested …
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