by Jim Algie | Jan 26, 2021 | Blog, Music, Personalities
The passing of the cult-famous punk singer of SNFU last year inspired a torrent of online tributes from fans, critics and musicians like Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, but few of them came from those who first knew him as a teenaged skateboarder from Edmonton....
by Jim Algie | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog, My Writings, Personalities, Stories
What sort of cold-blooded executioner leans over a sub-machine-gun bolted to the floor, takes aim at a target on a white curtain in front of a condemned man strapped to a cross, and then pumps 10 to 15 bullets into his back? A family man, a rock musician, an altruist,...
by Jim Algie | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog, Features, Music, Personalities, Profiles, Stories
On the first anniversary of the passing of Anthony Bourdain, Jim Algie looks at the spiking suicide rate in the West and how a man who survived a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge is leading a revolution in suicide prevention and awareness. My brother and I were nine...
by Jim Algie | May 22, 2020 | Blog, Book Reviews, Music, Personalities
The former frontman of Green on Red, Dan Stuart, discusses the group’s rise and downfall, his 15-year hiatus from the music biz and how personal tragedies inspired three acclaimed solo records and two books. Words by Jim Algie. Some 15 albums and EPs into his...
by Jim Algie | Dec 17, 2019 | Blog, My Reviews, Personalities, Profiles
After the recent arrest of a serial killer dubbed Thailand’s “Jack the Ripper,” released from jail earlier this year only to kill again, Jim Algie looks back at a true crime show from 2013 called “The Masseuse Murders” which chronicles...
by Jim Algie | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog, Book Reviews, Personalities
Over five decades in the kingdom, William Warren, a friend to both Jim Thompson and the most famous expat murdered in Bangkok in the 1960s, produced more than 50 books and hundreds of articles, writes Jim Algie, before his death in 2017. When I first arrived in...
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