backroad bohemia.
crash pad
t h e i n s i d e d o p e o n o u t s i d e c u l t u r e
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,
mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or
say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding
like spiders across the stars . . . .” —Jack Kerouac
road warrior
Jack Kerouac is long gone, but his legacy lingers. Celebrating the 50th anniversary
of his landmark Beat-era novel On the Road,
the traveling exhibition Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road and various ephemera from other Beat poets, writers and artists. makes a whistlestop in the Big Apple—the New York Public Library, to be precise.
The show—which runs Nov. 9 through March 16—includes one half of the fabled typescript scroll of the manuscript that, according to legend, Kerouac tapped out in three weeks. The show also includes unpublished Kerouac materials
In a 1939 journal entry, recorded upon arriving in New York to attend the Horace Mann School for Boys, he wrote, "I wish to say that this journal is a continual refreshing resource for my castle, which surrounds me; it keeps me aloof from teeming humanity; it keeps me in contact with myself. By that I mean that a continual flow of ideas from my turbulent mind find their way into these pages invariably."
Learn more: www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm
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sound & vision
BOBBIN' ALONG: Bob Dylan revisited
on new three-disc anthology, film portrait,
DVD documentary, and tribute CD!
news 'n' blues
HART TO HEART: Grateful Dead drummer and percussionist Mickey Hart marks the 15th anniversary of his Grammy-winning Planet Drum album with a reunion CD and tour.
PILLOW TALK: City Lights publishes a new Kerouac memoir
by one of the Beat author's closest confidants.
COLTRANE LIVES! Jazz great John Coltrane's family home in Philadelphia has been declared a national historic landmark.
For jazz fans, the honor places a brilliant artist and innovator back in the spotlight. Renovation plans for this site include the installment of studio space, an archive, a gift shop, and lecture and performance rooms.
aural fixation
BUSH WHACKED: Share your favorite anti-Bush songs!
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MAGIC TIME: Director Stanley Kubrick's provocative 1972 film
'A Clockwork Orange' is finally getting a new look and sound.
CLASH OF THE TITANS: Julien Temple's latest documentary,
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten, burns with the heat
of the British punk explosion.
