Woodstock 99 was meant to be a three-day celebration of music. Instead, it deteriorated into a chaotic mess of human waste, sexual assault, fires, and rioting.It was the 30th anniversary of the most iconic music festival in history. Like the original 1969 Woodstock festival before it, Woodstock 99 was meant to be a three-day celebration of “peace and music.” Instead, it became a hotbed for sexual assault, property destruction, and manmade infernos that necessitated riot police. Read More...
Spider-Man Reimagined As A Black/Hispanic Teenager… MarvelMiles Morales as Spider-Man.
Marvel began discussing the notion of a non-white Spider-Man in the run-up to the first election of Barack Obama. When they executed that notion a few years later, in 2011, the world was introduced to Miles Morales, a 13-year-old boy born to an African-American father and a Puerto Rican mother. Upon the introduction of Morales, original Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee proclaimed, “Doing our bit to try to make our nation, and the world, color blind is definitely the right thing. Read More...
The Baffling Missing Persons Case Of Branson Perry That Implicated A Cannibalistic Minister Public DomainYoung Branson Perry helped out at a traveling petting zoo in his spare time.
Branson Perry disappeared from his father’s Skidmore, Missouri home on April 11, 2001. But the 20-year-old wasn’t alone when it happened. His friend, Jena Crawford, had visited to help him clean the house before Perry’s father returned from a stay at the hospital. Read More...
