Category Archives: 80s

BETTER LUCKY THAN GOOD by Peter Nolan Smith

June 10, 2013 – 6:02 pm

A greasy nor-easter ruined Columbus Day weekend for New York. I shut my windows for the first time in months and dressed to leave my apartment for breakfast at the Veselka Diner on 2nd Avenue. The shoes and jacket seemed unnaturally heavy after a season of shorts and sandals. Luckily Global Warming guaranteed that New [...]

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The Second Coming Of Rockets Redglare

June 1, 2013 – 9:43 am

Rockets Redglare was a native New Yorker. His family was tough. He was born addicted to heroin. His childhood was no fairy tale and Rockets moved to the East Village to escape his past. He couldn’t outrun heroin and his habit became the thing of legends on the Punk Scene. Rockets could score anywhere and [...]

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THE ONLY YEH YEH GIRL By Peter Nolan Smith

May 12, 2013 – 11:47 am

TV, radio, and movies transported the stars of the 1960s to my three red-light suburb south of Boston. Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Buddy Holly were worshipped as dead gods, but my generation’s focus was dedicated to the living as we hit our teens. Bob Dylan’s BLOWING IN THE WIND knocked Elvis off his throne [...]

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Fast Healer by Mark Kamins

April 24, 2013 – 9:43 pm

The headlights reflected off the rain-scarred streets. I saw her eyes,twisted, bloodshot red, dazed, as she looked at me. She didn’t see the gunshot wound. It wasn’t the first and I know it wouldn’t be the last. I had fucked up. It’s fucking hard trying to make a quick peso, a fast G, in the [...]

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SANDWICH RUN by Peter Nolan Smith

April 15, 2013 – 10:21 am

New York nightclubs closed at 4am in 1979, however many people didn’t want to go home after Studio 54 or the Mudd Club, CBGBs. The Mafia ran the after-hour clubs like the Cisco Disco, the 82 Club and the Nursery on 3rd Avenue. Drinks were served with an undesirable degree of danger, so when nightlife [...]

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