'Gonzo' icon Acosta honored in Riverbank

Kentucky admen are back with take on Hunter S Thompson's essay In their continuing efforts to promote Kentucky as a "kick ass" state, the team behind Kentucky for Kentucky (ad industry Kentuckians, Whit Hiler, Kent Carmichael and Griffin VanMeter) ...

The Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado. Photo: Lance Richardson Hunter S. Thompson no longer props up the bar, but the Jerome is a storied celebration of US history, writes Lance Richardson. The hotels of the US cover a vast spectrum, from Waldorf ...

In the spring of 1970, a British illustrator named Ralph Steadman had just moved to America, hoping to find some work. His first call came from a small literary journal called Scanlan's. It was looking for a cartoonist to send to the Kentucky Derby.

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours." -- Hunter S. Thompson If Thompson's words were to ever ring more true, it would be when talking New York politics. Last week, prominent local legislators, most notably ...

We admit to not knowing a thing about Hunter S. Thompson's cars, so we don't know if the 1959 Rambler Custom he's using as a makeshift office in the 1960s at the Plumas County Fair was his or not. Those fold-down seats seem rather well suited to the ...

In a display of some truly Hunter S Thompson-esque journalism, Radio Live presenter and the other half of Guyon Espiner, Duncan Garner took some synthetic canabis to show people it's dangerous or something

Hunter S. Thompson spent his early career running from creditors, trying to scrape together enough cash to find a decent place to hole up with his typewriter and finish his debut novel. That's my take on The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate ...

Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanet Managing Editor The Great Barrier Reef extends for 2,000 kilometers along the northeastern coast of Australia. It is not a single reef, but a vast maze of reefs, passages, and coral cays (islands that are part of ...

Where do I begin with this chore of a movie-This kind of movie, dealing more with the horrible, inescapable conformity of high school establishments/institutions, along with the usual "brave rebel" trope squad of cliche