By: Lynn Peril

A great gossip, and an acerbic critic of writers and artists in Paris

By: Lynn Peril

Who cares what the world thinks an “old lady” is supposed to look like?

By: Lynn Peril

Lynn Peril on a panel from YOUNG LOVE (1950)

By: Lynn Peril

“There has never been anything like this before in human society.”

By: Lynn Peril

Pianos plink and glide, strings zigzag into space!

By: Lynn Peril

A dancer by training, and an iconoclast by nature.

By: Lynn Peril

She was devoted to comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

By: Lynn Peril

Even if you didn’t know his name, you knew his “Kustom Monsters.”

By: Lynn Peril

Rock‘n’roll, horror movies, and Orange Sun­shine acid

By: Lynn Peril

Find out why “the name of Marie Vassilieff will remain in the history of Montparnasse.”

By: Lynn Peril

Meet the woman who trans­formed paleo­anthro­po­logical field re­search.

By: Lynn Peril

At the age of 15, ARI UP (Arianna Forster, born 1962) was lead singer of England’s all-girl punk band The Slits. No creamy underage dream vixen, she: Up was a teen Medusa who wasn’t about […]

By: Lynn Peril

Dubbed the “Striptease Intellectual” by the American Mercury, GYPSY ROSE LEE (1911-70) wowed the boys with her witty chatter as she removed all but her G-string and two strategically placed bows. An autodidact who penned […]

By: Lynn Peril

A virtuoso pianist with a biting wit, OSCAR LEVANT (1906-72) was equally at home with Schoenberg’s atonalism and Gershwin’s jazzy rhapsodies, dated a series of Broadway chorus girls, acted alongside stars like Fred Astaire and […]

By: Lynn Peril

HARRIET MONROE (1860-1936) was the original zinester. In 1912, at the age of 51, the former Chicago Tribune art editor and moderately successful poet (her “Columbian Ode” — “Columbia! Men beheld thee rise/A goddess from […]