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Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth |

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This article is more than 22 years oldObituaryEd 'Big Daddy' RothThis article is more than 22 years oldCalifornian artist who built a sub-culture from the motor carThe American artist and eccentric car designer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who has died aged 69, was a pioneering figure in one of California's most colourful sub- cultures. He was also the man who inspired Tom Wolfe's new-journalism story, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965). Read More...

Everything But the Girl

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Thurston Moore’s massive new memoir has a Kim Gordon–shaped hole in it. Photo: Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images By time of their breakup in 2011, Sonic Youth had released essential studio albums during four U.S. presidencies (and a pretty good one, 2009’s The Eternal, during a fifth), erected an unlikely bridge between the noisy underground and mainstream alternative radio, and barreled through every permutation of guitar music with KISS on one end of the spectrum and Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music on the other. Read More...

How Much Money Does the Cast Make per Episode (And the Surprising Reason Lisa Vanderpump Invested in

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TV How much money does the cast from 'Vanderpump Rules' make per episode today? Plus, Lisa Vanderpump invested in SUR for one main reason. Published on January 10, 2020 2 min read When restauranteur Lisa Vanderpump became a partner at SUR in 2005 she had no idea that her refined British lifestyle would be turned on its head. Vanderpump and husband Ken Todd invested $500,000 to develop SUR. Read More...