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Mike Gold: Peter Pan, Revolutionary
ByMike Gold May 24, 2017

Never Land will always be / The home of youth and joy / And liberty I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up Not me! Not me! No sir! Not me! I just returned from a family reunion, and it was just about the only type I’d go to. It was a reunion…

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Mike Gold: Jay Lynch – Um Tut Sut!
ByMike Gold March 8, 2017

Every town must have a place / Where phony hippies meet / Psychedelic dungeons / Popping up on every street • Frank Zappa, “Who Needs The Peace Corps?” The late Sixties really did live up to its reputation. In my home town of Chicago hippie central was the Lincoln Park neighborhood around the iconic Biograph…

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