Reading time: 4 minutes, 22 seconds Michael Cimino was coming off a fantastic Oscar win for Deer Hunter in 1978, and his next project was supposed to Hollywood’s next big thing. The movie ended up being one of Hollywood’s biggest flops. It ended up destroying Cimino’s career, today we look at Heaven’s Gate. After the […]
Month: October 2019
The Columbus Myth : Great Man or Monster?
Reading Time: 4 Minutes, 55 seconds “In fourteen hundred and ninety-three, Columbus stole all he could see.” – Traditional verse…remixed Pop Quiz… who are the only two people the United States honors by name in a national holiday? Martin Luther King Jr. and Christopher Columbus! Columbus is seen like Jesus Christ by historians, they separate […]
Forgotten: A&P Grocery
Reading time: 4 minutes, 18 seconds From 1915 through 1975, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) was the largest grocery retailer in the United States. Until 1965 A&P was the largest U.S. retailer of any kind. A&P was considered an American icon, that according to the Wall Street Journal, “was as well known […]
