About Artemus Gordon

October 3, 1995 was the date of arguably the most watched program in American history. EVERY appliance store that sold televisions, every radio at your desk, everyone driving in their car was tuned into a feed of some sort that was to relay the verdict of the trial of the century. I surmise that more […]

There are very few ways to describe the emergence of Interscope Records in the early 1990s. The catchphrase that should be used is “lightning in a bottle”, meaning capturing something powerful and elusive and then being able to hold it to show the world. The label founded by billionaire Marshall Field scion, Ted Field and […]

Samuel George Davis, Jr. was born December 8, 1925 into entertainment. His parents Sammy Davis, Sr. and his Puerto Rican (or Cuban depending who you ask) mother, Elvera “Baby” Sanchez were both vaudeville performers and who were a part of their “uncle,” Will Mastin’s act “Holiday In Dixieland.” By the age of three once Sammy […]

Ray Bradbury once wrote, “Run fast, stand still. This the lesson from the lizards…Observe almost any survival creature, you see the same. Jump, run, freeze.  In the ability to flick like an eyelash, crack like a whip, vanish like steam, here this instant, gone the next-life teems the earth. And when that life is not […]

Hunter S. Thompson once proclaimed, “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway, where thieves and pimps roam free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side…” Ask yourself, how does arguably the most famous African American man in the country, die in a seedy $3 […]

Hip-hop has been extremely slow to address the topic of the AIDS epidemic in America. I guess it’s not sexy or does not sell enough records to be a topic that is constantly beat into our heads like most of the sounds we hear today bumping down the street or on our television screens. The […]