I first saw Jonathan Richman in 1985 at The University of Chicago’s Ida Noyes Hall. Last night, I saw him for the second time at The Bell House in Brooklyn. One big difference: I do not recall audience members in ’85 trying to make horrible recordings on Iphones in search of social media validation, ironic, since Richman famously does not have a cellphone.
This episode contains all the messages and interviews with Sikay Tang.
In the initial years of Television, Game shows were a popular part of networks’ prime time schedule until a 1959 investigation revealed they were often scripted. During the 1970s and 80s, daytime TV broadcast shows like Password and 25,000 dollar Pyramid. In 1999, Who Wants to be a Millionaire brought the genre back to network Prime Time.
In the summer of 1990, a series of murders spread fear across Gainesville Florida. Nearly eighty years earlier, the collapse of a small bank led to tragedy on the lower east side of Manhattan.
In the mid 1990s, a Destroy All Music Festival held at the Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center in Wicker Park featured bands like Carnival de Carnitas, Scissor Girls, Blowhole and DragKing.
Paul Mason Fotsch 