Melvin Van Peebles on the cover of Intellectual Digest, August 1972
Charlie Smalls, photographed by Martha Swope, circa 1974, via NYPL I’ve been a fan of Charlie Smalls ever since first seeing John Cassavetes’ FACES, which includes his great “Never Felt Li...
seanhowe : > Exterior of the Losers Club on La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles. > From Flareup (1969). > John Cassavetes had previously filmed the interior of the club�...
Autumn 1967: In their book The Espionage Establishment, David Wise and Thomas B. Ross reveal Tracy Barnes’ Domestic Operations Division of the CIA, which, “by 1964,” operated from fifth flo...
THE THREE FACES OF CHICO (Warner Brothers, WS 1344) 1959 Chico Hamilton (d), Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet, fl), Nate Gershman (cello), Dennis Budimir (g), Wyatt Ruther (b), plus Paul H...
TANGANYIKA: MODERN AFRO-AMERICAN JAZZ Featuring Buddy Collette (reeds), John Anderson (trumpet), Gerald Wiggins (piano), Jim Hall (guitar), Curtis Counce (bass), Chico Hamilton (drums) Octo...
Reader’s Digest depiction of Alberto Sicilia Falcon, 1978
Newsday reporters John Cummings and Ernest Volkman, circa 1977. Cummings (1931-2016) covered things like the Bay of Pigs, the JFK assassination, Selma, the CIA, the Mafia, Barry Seal—you know...
Last, desperate gasp of True magazine, which folded within months. The publisher later bought Sassy, in 1995. “One word describes the new TRUE magazine: macho (ma’ ché) n. a strong, viri...
The Los Angeles Times reviews Love at the Whisky, 1966.
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CBC Times, November 23, 1958.
“We’re joined by author Sean Howe to talk about his new book, Agents of Chaos , about Tom Forcade, the Yippies, the Zippies, the feds, and the fakes.” This was a ton of fun!
“WHO WAS TOM FORÇADE? A revolutionary guru? A hippie con man? An undercover cop? In Sean Howe’s brilliant book, he’s a weird one-man secret history of seventies America, a mystery man who ...
How ‘High Times’ Became the 'Playboy’ of Weed I’m absolutely thrilled to say that you can read an exclusive excerpt from my new book in ROLLING STONE! Please let me know what you thi...
soupy-sez : > Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) Elliott Gould just before he wrote “Do the Ostrich”
seanhowe : > “Who was Tom Forçade? A revolutionary guru? A hippie con man? An > undercover cop? > > “In Sean Howe’s brilliant book, he’s a weird one-man > s...
ALAN MOORE’S FIVE TIPS FOR WOULD-BE COMICS WRITERS 1. Don’t. 2. No, really don’t. 3. DEFINITELY don't—I mean it. 4. Whatever you might be imagining about a life of writing, it’s...
“Who was Tom Forçade? A revolutionary guru? A hippie con man? An undercover cop? “In Sean Howe’s brilliant book, he’s a weird one-man secret history of seventies America, a mystery man...