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Aspiring Country Star Herbie Howell Arrives in 1969 Nashville
Aspiring singer-songwriter 26-year-old Herbie Howell drove from Georgia to Nashville to attend a country music convention and hopefully perform for the right people. He found what he was looking for. He was…
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Aspiring Country Star Herbie Howell Arrives in 1969 Nashville
Aspiring singer-songwriter 26-year-old Herbie Howell drove from Georgia to Nashville to attend a country music convention and hopefully perform for the right people. He found what he was looking for. He was able to play for well-known record producer Shelby…
Larry Clark and Harmony Korine on the Making of ‘KIDS’
This “KIDS” Q&A was moderated by film critic Eric Hynes and featured director Larry Clark, co-writer Harmony Korine, actors Chloë Sevigny, Leo Fitzpatrick, and Rosario Dawson, producer Cary Woods, and distribution executive Eamonn Bowles (president of Magnolia Pictures). Learn more…
Larry Clark: ‘I wanted to be a writer but I had a camera in my hand’
Larry Clark is a photographer and filmmaker. He directed “Kids” (1995) and “Bully,” (2001) among other films.
Hunting Luka Magnotta
In 2011 virtually no one knew anything about a young man named Luka Magnotta. Then came the horrifying discovery of the body of Jun Lin in Montreal, followed by a feverish international manhunt and then his arrest in Berlin. Luka…
Humpback Whales Surprise a Family in the Best Way
Two humpback whales surprised a family that were on a boat off the coast of Newfoundland in Conception Bay on Sunday when the whales breach the water multiple times, with Sean Russell capturing the moments on video. The whales jumped…
Daredevil Karel Soucek Attempts Barrel Drop
Evel Knievel interviewed after his friend daredevil Karel Soucek dies during a barrel drop stunt at the Houston Astrodome in 1985. Video credit: KPRC
The Arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell is Just the Beginning
There was little Jeffrey Epstein wouldn’t do to satisfy his lust for young women and girls. It included spending millions of dollars masterminding a worldwide sex-trafficking operation. Countless innocent lives were destroyed. A year ago Epstein was arrested and a…
‘Trouble Behind’: What Racism Looked Like in 1991 Kentucky
Trouble Behind (1991), a documentary by Robby Henson that examines the history and legacy of racism in Corbin, Kentucky, a small railroad community noteworthy both as the home of Colonel Sanders‘ Kentucky Fried Chicken and for “its race riots of 1919, during which over two hundred blacks…
First Person: In the Kingdom of the Unabomber
When psychologist Gary Greenberg wanted to broaden his career, he sought guidance from a more established writer as a means to getting published. But he soon discovered that his mentor was in fact Ted Kaczynski, the notorious Unabomber. Now Greenberg…
The Tuna King
Yukitaka Yamaguchi is the Tuna King. With this video you get to step inside his shop at Tsukiji fish market. Eater is the one-stop-shop for food and restaurant obsessives across the country. With features, explainers, animations, recipes, and more — it’s the…