Relevant messages from Kristy Venrick: You have a package coming. Julia and her wife are helping send. I got all the goods together before I left though.
We will continue our friendship and need to get together again soon… I think I saved anything you ever gave me and hope the package shows you how much I appreciate you and all you’ve done!
Julie / Julia sent your package today! I didn’t get to mailing it before we left and they have been busy. It’s coming! And, for some reason, I cannot text (Android) or call people today. Ugh!
I knew that Kristy had kept the back issues of MK ULTRA that I gave to her from 1995-1998. I had know idea she saved pretty much everything I gave to her back in those days. Huge surprise when I checked my mail on 8/12/2025 and not only did she send back issues but classic mid 1990’s MK ULTRA video collections, the second Indpls based ALC O HOLIDAY 1996 invite a printout of an interview I did back in 1996 which was a first edit and very long in depth and assorted MK promo items. It will all be great for the coffee table book. It all meant a lot to me.
Two good friends have moved across the seas. My gawd did we ever share some laughs over the years and so many inside jokes.
As irony would have it Julia Applegate who I know as the Director and Producer of Free Beer Tomorrow, a Columbus Ohio made film at the historic lesbian bar, Jack/s/Summit Station a doc that I provided a good many images that they are using in the film purchased Kristy and Andreas home on Summit Street in Columbus. SMALL SMALL WORLD.
Julia M. Applegate: Alex Zander good people find good people. #cbus
In 1971, Petie Brown, a trumpeter and young lesbian, got a part-time bartending job at Jack’s A Go-Go to support her aspiring singing career. Word spread fast that a lesbian was behind the bar, and soon Jack’s began attracting lesbian women in scores. Petie left the bar along the way, but the word was out, and the bar’s owners welcomed the lesbian patrons. When the bar came up for sale 10 years later, Petie rounded up every penny she had and bought it. In 1980 she renamed it Summit Station, established it as a safe space for lesbians and friends, and thus was born Ohio’s longest running lesbian bar. As Petie tells it, it was one of the first three lesbian bars in the United States. Forty-two years after the opening of the bar, a small group of former patrons banded together to pay tribute to Petie, the bar. and its thousands of patrons.
In partnership with the Ohio History Connection, a historical marker was placed permanently in front of the space that held Summit Station. The marker was dedicated on June 10, 2023. We are raising funds to cover the costs associated with making a documentary film to properly tell the story for future generations.
Being a huge fan of both Michael Madsen and Danny Trejo I was drawn to wacth anindie film I had never heard of. It was disturbing but very very good.
Hope Lost is an Italian English-language sex trafficking thriller directed by David Petrucci.The film stars Danny Trejo, Mischa Barton, Michael Madsen and Daniel Baldwin. The film chronicles the struggles of a young Romanian woman trafficked to Italy. Filming took place in Rome in 2014[and the film premiered at the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival on 20 February 2015.
A young Romanian woman from a small town meets a man claiming to be a film director and he convinces her to come to Rome for auditions. This is a ruse and she is instead lured into a life of prostitution in Italy and then sold by her pimp to a man who intends to torture her and another young woman in a snuff movie.
Four people were killed and 23 others injured in weekend shootings across the city, many of which erupted on the West Side during a chaotic social media-inspired block party, Chicago police said.
What they aren’t telling you:
MK ULTRA Issue #1 Release Party Pittsburgh PA 1/1995
Jeff Brown, Chris Smith (RIP) Pamela Doolin (MIA) Dennard Summers (RIP) Alex Zander, Big Milke Pavlick (RIP) Mark Dlugos and Jimmy Craig (RIP)
MK ULTRA Issue #1 Release Party Pittsburgh PA 1/1995 Dennard Summers and Alex Zander
According to ChatGPT
What Is M.K. Ultra Magazine?
- Origins & Identity
M.K. Ultra Magazine was founded in 1995 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by Alex Zander, who served as publisher, editor, promoter, and managed staff operations - Style & Mission
It began as a modest, 28-page newsprint tabloid with a small print run of about 250 copies. It positioned itself as an anti-establishment, alternative-culture magazine focusing on what was viewed as “dark” or underground content during the mainstreaming of alternative music. - Growth & Reach
By the early 2000s, it had evolved into roughly 100-page issues, featuring full-color glossy covers and centerfolds. The magazine gained international distribution, appearing in outlets such as Tower Records and Desert Moon Publications. It even sponsored two national tours headlined by Invisible Records’ artist Pigface. Issues were priced around $5 each by this stage. - Radio & Podcast Extensions
In 1999, M.K. Ultra Magazine launched a weekly radio show called MK ULTRASOUND on Pittsburgh’s Rebel Radio WJKL 94.3 FM. It later expanded via syndication on Flagstaff, Arizona’s LOUD RADIO Network KLOD 100.1 FM. The program featured cutting-edge, non-mainstream music, uncensored interviews, and a dark, controversial sense of humor—running until early 2002.
In April 2019, the magazine’s team launched the MKULTRASOUND Podcast, a weekly, uncensored, NSFW show discussing pop culture, social media, free speech, and more - Current Status & Content
The website continues to feature sections like Innerviewz, Reviewz, Photo Galleries, Diary of a Damned Man, and Static: The Rocumentery, indicating that it remains active in alternative music journalism and commentary mkultramagazine.com+1. The founder Alex Zander is now associated with Chicago, according to the magazine’s Facebook presence Facebook+1.
Summary
M.K. Ultra Magazine is not related to the CIA’s infamous MKUltra mind-control program. Instead, it is a DIY, alternative-music magazine born in the mid-1990s, deeply rooted in subcultural, anti-establishment sensibilities. Over time, it grew from a small Pittsburgh tabloid to a globally distributed glossy magazine, complete with radio and podcast extensions.
Tuesday evening as I was watching the HOPE LOST film I received the following message from Jason Harmon: Go to HBO Max and type in Anthony Bourdain choose Parts Unknown and look for Season 7 episode 5. He’s in Tbilisi, Georgia. I think there are other episodes he’s in Georgia but this one was just on Pluto so I looked it up for you.
There is a saying in Georgia that one of the things you do not mess with is the food, and in his travels to the cities of Batumi and Tbilisi, Anthony Bourdain experiences exactly why that is, as he eats and drinks his way around this fascinating country on the edge of the Black Sea.
Anthony Bourdain visited Tbilisi and other cities in Georgia to film episode 5 of season 7 of Parts Unknown; it is his only on-screen visit to the Republic of Georgia but a memorable one because it shined a light on the incredible culinary scene and wine-making heritage of the country.
Tbilisi is the city that Melita comes from. I watched it, enjoyed and it made me hungry. Wednesday night late after Melita arrived from her most recent journey. She loved it as I knew she would. Earlier in the evening I watched an episode where Anthony came to Chicago and then I watched his doc: Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain which is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon
Now Jason as he does has me hooked on another series or two around Bourdain. I really like one of the Chicago episodes and have begun looking into the man’s life. A real rebel that I wish I was made more aware of while he was alive. I really enjoyed the doc’: Roadrunner which I just watched on Wednesday prior to Melitas return.
Bourdain’s book The Nasty Bits is dedicated to “Joey, Johnny, and Dee Dee” of the Ramones. He declared fond appreciation for their music, as well as that of other early punk bands such as Dead Boys and The Voidoids. He said that the playing of music by Billy Joel, Elton John, or Grateful Dead in his kitchen was grounds for firing.[Joel was a fan of Bourdain’s, and visited the restaurant.
On No Reservations and Parts Unknown, he dined with and interviewed many musicians, both in the U.S. and elsewhere, with a special focus on glam and various rockers such as Alice Cooper, David Johansen, Marky Ramone, and Iggy Pop.[107][108] He featured contemporary band Queens of the Stone Age on No Reservations several times, and they composed and performed the theme song for Parts Unknown.[109]