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jack & stella kerouac center for american studies
from jack kerouac, the beats posted in literature by pete_nice
Founded in 2005 with financial support from Kerouac Estate Executor John Sampas, the Jack & Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies has the stated purpose of strengthening "the interdisciplinary study of American culture by facilitating ties between the fields of English, history, philosophy, cultural studies, art, music, sociology, and economics."
The center serves as the home for the Kerouac Writer-in-Residence program, the Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature, Kerouac Scholarships and the New England Poetry Conference.
hemlock grove high school
from hemlock grove posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
Netflix's Hemlock Grove, set in a fictional Pennsylvania town, was filmed mostly in Canada. Hemlock Grove High School is the Ursula Franklin Academy in Toronto.
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from buffy the vampire slayer posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
In Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Torrance High School was the stand-in for Sunnydale High School, located right over the hellmouth in fictional Sunnydale, California.
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from mca, beastie boys posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
This Brooklyn Heights park (formerly Palmetto Playground and before that State Street Park) was rechristened Adam Yauch Park on May 3, 2013, the day before the one year anniversary of his death. It's located near the State St home where Beastie Boy Yauch (aka MCA) grew up.
city lights bookstore
from allen ginsberg, jack kerouac, the beats posted in literature by pete_nice
Founded as an all-paperback bookstore by Peter D. Martin in 1952, the name City Lights is an homage to the Charlie Chaplin film of the same name. Martin also used the name for a magazine he was publishing in San Francisco at the same time.
In 1953, the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti was walking by the storefront and noticed Martin hanging up a sign. Ferlinghetti told Martin he had written for his magazine, and that he had always wanted to own a bookstore. They both invested $500 and became partners in the store.
In 1955, Ferlinghetti heard Allen Ginsberg reciting Howl at the Six Gallery and offered to publish it. The poem was published in 1956, and the resulting obscenity trial was not entirely unexpected given the prevailing attitude towards drug use and homosexuality at the time.
The presiding judge at the obscenity trial declared that Howl was not obscene and that a book with “the slightest redeeming social importance” was guaranteed First Amendment protection.
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