Email Author Johnny Ray Huston

1995 Stories by Johnny Ray Huston

• Night+Day

  published December 27, 1995

  wednesday december 27 Vacant Lot Ira Nowinski's "No Vacancy" records the history of the Yerba Buena Redevelopment Area, documenting... More >>

• Night+Day

  published December 20, 1995

  wednesday december 20 Meet the Beatles ... Again In case you've spent the past month on Pluto, there was another Fab Four revival... More >>

• Books

  published December 13, 1995

  Edited by Eric Weisbard with Craig Marks SPIN Alternative Record Guide (Vintage) Like any art form, rock music has carved for... More >>

• Night+Day

  published December 13, 1995

  wednesday december 13 Portrait of Oscar Today they're called soundbites, but once upon a time they were epigrams, and Oscar Wilde... More >>

• Night+Day

  published December 6, 1995

  wednesday december 6 Gadzooks! Godzilla is over 40 years old. Over time, the nuclear reptile with the sharp spine, glowing belly,... More >>

• Night+Day

  published November 29, 1995

  wednesday november 29 Wonderful Weslia Fresh from an extended stay at New York's Algonquin and a show-stealing appearance at a... More >>

• Samples

  published November 22, 1995

  The Odd Couple Although Black Fag -- a punky, jazzy outfit featuring L.A. drag queen Vaginal Davis and Beck's mom -- was featured in SPIN... More >>

• Night+Day

  published November 22, 1995

  wednesday november 22 Fancy Prancers Founded 59 years ago by Bolshoi Ballet Master Igor Moiseyev, the Moiseyev Dance Company keeps... More >>

• Recordings

  published November 15, 1995

  The Magnetic Fields Get Lost (Merge) Get Lost is the perfect title for this record, fusing Stephin Merritt's cranky,... More >>

• Night+Day

  published November 15, 1995

  wednesday november 15 Sounds and Silence A five-day conference and festival, "Here Comes Everybody: The Music, Poetry, and Art of... More >>

• Night+Day

  published November 8, 1995

  wednesday november 8 Of Oscars and Wire Hangers Faye Dunaway -- what a great name. After winning the 1977 Best Actress Oscar (for... More >>

• Night+Day

  published November 1, 1995

  wednesday november 1 Black Humor Comedian/activist Dick Gregory faces race issues other people sugarcoat or ignore: His '70s-era... More >>

• Night+Day

  published October 25, 1995

  wednesday october 25 Hungry Eye Most people know (and love) William Conrad for his TV roles, especially Cannon, that crime-fighting... More >>

• Night+Day

  published October 18, 1995

  wednesday october 18 Pretty Girls Make Graves Horror doesn't get any weirder than Dario Argento's over-the-top Suspiria. The film's... More >>

• Night+Day

  published October 11, 1995

  wednesday october 11 Blues Times Four The Legends of the Blues All-Star Band brings together four veteran bluesman: Jimmy Rogers,... More >>

• Food Sexy

  published October 4, 1995

  First, some facts. Cibo Matto (it means "crazy food" in Italian) is two Japanese girls who live in New York: Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori. Cibo... More >>

• Red Scare

  published October 4, 1995

  Nadja (Elina Lswensohn) is a trust-fund brat of sorts, coasting on a limitless money supply and a few other family perks. She wears a lot of... More >>

• Night+Day

  published October 4, 1995

  wednesday october 4 Sharin' With Karen Pegged as a ditzy kook after such films as Five Easy Pieces and Trilogy of Terror, Karen... More >>

• Night+Day

  published September 27, 1995

  wednesday september 27 Cum on Feel the Noize Five years ago, when the Orb combined whooshing waves with Minnie Ripperton's bird song... More >>

• Night+Day

  published September 20, 1995

  wednesday september 20 Mr. Big Mouth and Ms./Mr. Mars The tone of Eric Bogosian's writing is conveyed by the title of one of his... More >>

• Night+Day

  published September 13, 1995

  wednesday september 13 Nutty as a Fruitcake Betsy Salkind isn't one character, she's a whole cast of them. In "Betsy Salkind... More >>

• Night+Day

  published September 6, 1995

  wednesday september 6 Pagan Invasion As the author of a column on zines for the Village Voice, Pagan Kennedy has trumpeted the joys... More >>

• Punk Mother

  published August 30, 1995

  "I would rather smell the way boys smell," Patti Smith declared on a 1974 single: Smith didn't want to be stuck with a bunch of passive women in a... More >>

• Night+Day

  published August 30, 1995

  wednesday august 30 Cute Cherubs and Bad Seeds The media-savvy button-pushing of Larry Clark's Kids and Calvin Klein's latest... More >>

• Night+Day

  published August 23, 1995

  wednesday august 23 The Art of Garbage Hey buddy, wanna buy some junk? "Discards" displays (and sells) byproducts from the art and... More >>