About seventeen years ago, I had the occasion to visit a new museum that opened near Trafalgar square in London, UK. The display was divided into two sections, the first being a walkthrough of the bunker offices where Churchill and his command team operated during WWII.
The second part of…
As we move through life we are met with choices. If you move slowly, the choices are bountiful, and sometimes too many.
So you speed up a bit, travelling past successive crossroads at a pace where a decision isn’t an option. Then, you find you’re moving faster and faster, and…
Remember the joke that went around when The Rolling Stones announced their Steel Wheels Tour way back in 1989?
People were calling it the Steel Wheelchairs tour because, at the time, the ageing rockers were approaching their 50s. …
The play on words aside, a better fiction writer is what I aspire to be, and reading better writers like Liam Ireland and Britni Pepper inspire me to pick up my game. Finding these terrific writers on ILLUMINATION-Curated and ILLUMINATION has somehow lit a fire in my brain.
Their inspiration…
Movies of the past still hold magical powers of imagery and symbolism that resonate today.
If you appreciate the artistry and detail that goes into filmmaking and you would like to explore cinema’s rich and diverse history with a discerning eye, please join me on a journey of rediscovery. …
Only in the Golden era of Rock could this bizarre story happen. Back then, police looked for any excuse to pop a rockstar.
Jim Morrison was taking a ride through the desert with his buddies in 1966 when he stopped to kiss a random girl at the side of the…
John Hurt was born in 1940 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. At age eight he became interested in theater while attending a preparatory school in Kent. His passion for acting continued to grow throughout his school career.
John suffered abuse and extreme bullying in grade school because he played a girl in…
Born in Brooklyn in 1941, Ritchie Havens was the decedent of Blackfoot Native Americans on his father’s side, and British West Indies on his mother’s. His grandfather was a member of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
When he was twenty, Havens…
Ahmir Khalib Thompson was born in Philadelphia in 1971 to a musical family. Known as Lee Andrews, his father sang in a Doo-wop group in the 50s. Ahmir’s grandfather sang with the Dixie Hummingbirds. …
1943 in Port Arthur, Texas is the place where a rock legend was born. But Janis Joplin’s childhood was far from legendary. In school, she was constantly bullied for being overweight and suffering from severe acne.
Janis’ parents ostracised her for hanging out with outsiders and listening to Black blues…
