HILOBROW – Page 1340 – Josh Glenn, ed.

I’VE BEEN EVERYWHERE

By Douglas Wolk

Jim Hanas on: The Fall, The Possessed, Upper Middle

By Jim Hanas

21^st
Jun

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JUNE 21 Today, the...

By HILOBROW

20^th
Jun

Just as it isn’t Burt Bacharach’s fault that his name is now rock-critical shorthand for “This band knows someone with a flugelhorn,” BRIAN WILSON...

By Franklin Bruno

20^th
Jun

In a recent HiLobrow.com post, I casually asserted that the so-called Baby Boomers [I call them the Blank Generation] were born from 1944-53. I’m...

By Joshua Glenn

19^th
Jun

In 1965, SHIRLEY MULDOWNEY (born 1940) beat down the doors of the National Hot Rod Association and became the first licensed female drag racer....

By Mimi Lipson

19^th
Jun

Looking back on it all, from the vantage point of a couple months, it’s apparent that the Susan Boyle Phenomenon (SBP) had very little...

By Joshua Glenn

18^th
Jun

Perhaps JÜRGEN HABERMAS (born 1929) is most dear to us for developing and elaborating over the course of decades an intricately woven Grand Theory...

By Tor Aarestad

17^th
Jun

It’s never been easy to like Eric Reed Boucher, better known as JELLO BIAFRA (born 1958). In my New Jersey high school, the mainstream...

By Jason Grote

16^th
Jun

While it’s conventional to call Oliver Hardy a “straight man,” it would be more accurate to think of the character created by British comic...

By Greg Rowland