One of the most legendary figures in zine culture and spoken word music, David Greenberger, is the subject of new documentary "Beyond the Duplex Planet" which premieres March 12 at Austin's South By Southwest festival. Go here for showtimes. I've known about Greenberger for a long time; I began publishing a zine in the early 1990's and then an e-zine version of it in 1995....

In 2016, Parma, Ohio resident Anthony Novak created a Facebook page parodying his local police department. Though he deleted it after one day, soon afterwards he was arrested for an obscure felony: "disrupting public services." Though he won his trial, his lawsuit was dropped and this lead to the head writer of the comedy publication "The Onion" writing an amicus brief for the Supreme...