Monthly Archives: June 2016

“Janis: Little Girl Blue”

On October 4, 1970, in Los Angeles, California, Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose at the age of twenty-seven. At the time, she was in her prime, creatively and professionally, and had just finished recording the album, “Pearl.”  The … Continue reading

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“The Resurrection of Jake The Snake”

Alcoholic, drug addict, failure, a lost cause, those were just some of the words I had read in print and heard wrestling fans use to describe the twice-divorced, estranged father of eight, Jake “The Snake” Roberts. The unflattering descriptions were … Continue reading

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