Curtis Jones

It goes without saying that Monty Python is one of the greatest comedy acts in the world.  Even if you don't quite get their humor, their irreverent and disestablishment comedy have permeated pop culture and survived for over forty years now. With the death of Graham Chapman in 1989, the troupe seemed to be finished. John Cleese had opted out of doing a sequel to Holy Grail before Chapman's death, and with the exception of the odd reunion here and there, there has been no full comedic production from the group since 1983’s The Meaning Of Life.   Until July…

In his 40-years-later look back at the year 1970, Rolling Stone writer David Browne takes us on a trip back to a year that looms large in rock memory but—unlike 1964 (the British Invasion) or 1967 (the “Summer Of Love”)—does not capture the collective imagination. Yet Browne argues that 1970 was the year everything shifted: the year that signaled that the ’60s were most definitely over, and the comfort of the mainstay bands everyone was accustomed to was yanked out from underneath. His tome with the phenomenally long full title of Fire And Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James…