June is nearly over, and with that we shall celebrate LGBT Pride month (thanks Obama) , yes it's no longer just Gay Pride, which I think is awesome. Here in NYC specifically we've just ended Pride week , a week filled with marches, parades and parties all over the city. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the catalyst for the modern LGBT rights movement. We are still fighting for equal rights but with more and more states allowing same sex marriage and with a democrat in office again, it seems likely [...]
Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven starred in 55 Days at Peking , a 1963 film about China's Boxer Rebellion of 1900. Sammy Hagar, an avid boxer in his youth, became known for rebellion with "I Can't Drive 55," his flip of the bird to the double-nickels that became an MTV staple in 1984. I won't venture a guess as to how Charlton, Ava, and David would have fared, but it's a good thing Sammy wasn't born in Victorian England, where the Locomotive Act—the world's first speed limit—made it illegal to drive a car (known then as a [...]
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