Here comes the sun(nmer) and the new AmericA Magazine. Ride with AmericA over the smouldering Route 66, feel the heat in Texas, cool down in Edmonton Canada and move over rover, cause in American Songbook Mr. Jimi Hendrix takes over….more…
ghosts in the desert
“There never was another place where, in proportion to the population, so many murders were committed without the criminals being brought to trial or even apprehended.” This is what a certain John Riggs wrote some 130 years ago about the time and place in which the Techatticup mine seems to be frozen in nowadays. Underneath […]more…
sweet caroline
Life in Boston wasn’t too sweet right after the bombing at the Marathon. But then Neil Diamond came into town. Five days and 7 innings after the attack, tens of thousands shouted ‘So Good, So Good, So Good!’ at the top of their lungs and with tears in their eyes. The unofficial anthem of the […]more…
all i want for christmas
When Thanksgiving is over and jack-o-lantarns have transformed into pumpkin soup, thirteen keys descent from heaven to earth. The Holiday Season has kicked into gear, and though she sings ‘I don’t want a lot for Christmas’, dollar bills fall like snowflakes on Mariah Carey’s bank account. ‘All I want for Christmas’ has become a holiday […]more…
elvis the pelvis
Elvis A(a)ron Presley, son of Gladys and Vernon Presley, wasborn on January 8 1935 in East Tupelo, Mississippi. Elvis’ middel dame, Aron according to this birth certificate, is one of the corner stones of the ‘Elvis lives’ theory. On his tombstone we read Elvis Aaron Presley. A typo made by Vernon or the civil servant […]more…
america magazine #3 2017
The fall edition of America Magazine hit the stores including one article by journeylism.nl featuring The King a.k.a. Elvis the Pelvis before he left the building. The article is available in the publication section of journeylism.nl, through this link and on the journeylism homepage.more…
moonwalker
One legendary evening in March 1983. Motown has been around for 25 years and that calls for a party. After having performed with the Jackson Five, Michael takes to the stage and start singing Billy Jean. About halfway into the song, the audience gasps. Jackson seems to float an inch above the stage, sliding backwards […]more…
la mission
The Mission District in San Francisco is one of the most colourful neighbourhoods of this shining city on the hills. Its walls are the painted stories of the (for now) mostly Latin American population. Are the pictures on these walls fading now gentrification takes over? Only time will tell if La Mission’s history will soon […]more…
fallingwater
The icon of American architecture is hiding in the woods of Pennsylvania. Fallingwater is Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece. A work of art that he envisioned to be an integrated part of its surrounding nature and built over the Bear Run waterfall……click here for full article published in America Magazine issue #2 – summer 2017more…
america magazine #2 2017
The summer edition of America Magazine – an Elvis special – hit the stores including four articles by journeylism.nl which are now available online in the publication section of journeylism.nl in September. The topics of the four articles are American Songbook – Michael Jackson, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, The Mission District in San Francisco and Las Vegas’ […]more…