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John Weir's short story collection 'Your Nostalgia is Killing Me' is made of linked stories that span a 40-year period, illustrating the power of nostalgia to alternately bring us to tears and make us laugh with a familiarity.

Warhol was a father figure to a generation of dispossessed acolytes. He cherished their youth and beauty and used it to make art that was ahead of the game, but the consequences were real and they were not pretty.   

Loud was part of “An American Family” in 1973, but his wild band, Mumps, never signed a record deal. Now their songs are being released on the 20th anniversary of his death.

Lance Loud was an early reality star. He was also a gay punk pioneer. Mumps, Rock & Roll This, Rock & Roll That: Best Case Scenario, You’ve Got Mumps. Release date: June 4, 2021. by Jim Farber (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- On Feb. 20, 1973, Lance Loud earned a place in musical history that, at the time, nearly stopped his career cold. That night, he appeared with his band, Loud!, on “The Dick Cavett Show” as part of an evening devoted to “An American Family,” the PBS program credited as TV’s firs...

A co-founding member of the band Mumps (with the late Lance Loud of PBS An American Family fame), Hoffman has been associated with a spectacular line-up of influential musical acts including Klaus Nomi, Lydia Lunch, Kid Congo Powers, Ann Magnuson, El Vez, Prince Poppycock and countless others. The previously mentioned Mumps are getting the special reissue treatment with Rock & Roll This, Rock & Roll That: Best Case Scenario, Youve Got Mumps (Omnivore), a single disc 23-track compilation inclu...

Based loosely on the book 1971: Never a Dull Moment; Rock’s Golden Year by David Hepworth, the Apple TV+ series doesn’t strain to cover all the bases.

Getting Rich on TV by Being Crazy Hollywood Commentary A moderately famous friend of mine was asked by a cable network to star in her own reality-television series. The offer was tempting enough that she didn’t turn it down flat. She asked me for advice. I reminded her that all of these shows are created in the editing room by producers looking for the most lurid and nutty angle. With the right editing, even a normal person can be made to look mentally and emotionally imbalanced. Not to be ...

WHEN the anthropologist Margaret Mead published her early essay on the first reality television show, An American Family, she described the genre as…

The California housewife was at the center of a 1973 PBS documentary series celebrated, or blamed, for ushering in the era of reality TV with its frank depiction of her private life.

Pat Loud, reality show matriarch of An American Family, dies at 94 Reality stars Pat Loud, right, the matriarch in "An American Family," and Carole Radziwill, a star in "The Real Housewives of New York City," have lunch at Il Cantinori in New York, May 16, 2013. Robert Caplin/The New York Times. by William Yardley (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Before “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” before the Kardashians, before the idea of living large and unscripted on camera became a TV staple, there was a...