John Lydon, better known as Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten, tells how great outsiders, from Gandhi to Mae West, have shaped his world John Lydon is King of the Outsiders. Squadron leader of the awkward squad. A punk ploughman with a taste for lonesome ...
17 Sep 2015 - Peter Ross
Dirty. Creepy. Hard to find when you need them. That’s how Jennifer McLaughlin describes some of the public bathrooms she’s used over the years. McLaughlin, a member of the People For Fairness Coalition (PFFC) in Washington, D.C., sits with a small band o ...
18 Feb 2015 - Eric Falquero
Jeannie Alexander grew up “deeply obsessed” with God. Before she resigned as chaplain of Riverbend Maximum Security Insitution in September, her obsession drove her to work with a group of some of the most marginalized members of society. “It’s this very ...
10 Jan 2015 - Amanda Haggard
Ozzy Osborne — the infamous lead singer of heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath — penned a letter to his younger self as part of a series for Street Roots sister paper, the Big Issue UK. He shares it with readers, as told to Jane Graham. I was a rebellious ...
4 Jan 2015 - Jane Graham
When the music industry finally gets its act together, finishes going through its painful digital rebirth and settles on a formula that works for the future, you can bet there’ll be a chapter in the text book on Amanda “Fucking” Palmer. The former Dresden ...
6 Dec 2014 - Laura Kelly
Earlier this year the CEO of the world’s largest oil and gas company joined an anti-fracking lawsuit because of plans to erect a 160-foot water tower near his Texas home. Rex Tillerson of Exxon complained that the value of his property would be harmed. Th ...
4 Dec 2014 - Kevin Gopal
I was driven to do this as I was firmly against the war in Iraq and didn’t see the point in kicking the hornets’ nest. When I started to see people coming back without their limbs, I felt compelled to say something. It wasn’t enough just to march in prote ...
4 Dec 2014 - Bryan Adams
The first of 11 death-row inmates with scheduled execution dates in Tennessee did not meet the executioner as planned on Oct. 7. The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Sept. 25 to postpone Billy Ray Irick’s execution as he and the other 10 death-row inmates wi ...
20 Nov 2014 - Amanda Haggard
It is the last day of filming on “Castles in the Sky.” We are in Eddie Izzard’s trailer, in a car park in Edinburgh. It is sparse, no home comforts here, with just an iPhone, a pair of headphones and a script on the table to hint that it is in use. “You’r ...
25 Sep 2014 - Adrian Lobb
“Who knew, dude?” exclaims director Kevin Smith, as he talks about the small cameo role he gave himself in his 1994 debut feature “Clerks.” “I had no idea I was punching my ticket for the next 20 years.” Silent Bob, the mute character he is most recognisa ...
26 Aug 2014 - Marissa Burgess