After becoming a commercially successful musician, Jack White moved to the affluent Indian Village neighborhood.
The home was designed by C. Howard Crane, architect of the Detroit’s Fox Theater, Orchestra Hall, and Opera House.
The White Stripes recorded their album “Get Behind Me Satan” in the foyer of this home.
White sold the house in 2006 to move to Nashville, TN.

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Area was a themed nightclub that was extremely popular in downtown Manhattan in the 1980's. The theme of the club would change every six weeks, and the interior would be redecorated to reflect the new theme: specific themes included "Night" (with a masked welder), "Surrealism", "Suburbia", "Red", and "Gnarly" (with skate ramps and boarders.

New York artist (and former boyfriend of Madonna) Jean-Michel Basquiat displayed his work here. Andy Warhol often mention Area in his diaries.

When the Beastie Boys were making the transition from a hardcore band to a hip-hop band, they were hanging out with Rick Rubin quite a bit. After Beasties drummer Kate Schellenbach returned from an out-of-town trip one weekend, she went to Area and saw the members of the Beastie Boys. Rubin had purchased the boys (MCA, Ad-Rock, and Mike D) matching red Adidas sweat suits and sneakers. Kate was not given a suit, and it became clear she was not welcome in the new group.

Kate S. later played drums for the band Luscious Jackson.

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Located in the city of Cross Plains, TX is the family home (and current museum) of Robert "Bob" E. Howard, author of several fantasy and adventure stories and creator of "Conan the Barbarian."

A frequent contributor to Weird Tales magazine, Howard was part of "The Lovecraft Circle", a group of fantasy writers who were influenced and encouraged through correspondence with Lovecraft.

Although Howard never had a book published in his lifetime, by the age of thirty he was consistently selling his stories to different magazines.

In 1936, upon hearing that his mother was entering a coma that she would not awake from, Howard went out to the car in the driveway of this location and shot himself in the head. He was thirty years old.

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Rogue Music is a vintage instrument dealer that has been operating in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan since 1983.

The Beastie Boys had gotten a chunk of settlement money after British Airways had used their song "Beastie Revolution" from the Cooky Puss single in an ad without clearing it. With some of the money, Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys bought a Roland TR-808 drum machine at Rogue Music in the early 80's.

Ad-Rock then used that drum machine to create the beats for LL Cool J's first single, "I Need a Beat."

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Careful in the winter that you don't get hit by snowballs like Heathcliff here.

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