San Diego is blessed to have one of the premier bluegrass festivals on the West Coast right here in our back yard. The Summergrass Festival, held...
Taking his stream of consciousness literally, writer Jack Kerouac composed the first draft of On the Road in just three weeks in April, 1951. With some...
I’ve lost count of the number of people whom I’ve run into during the past several weeks (as opposed to the seven or so people I...
The pliability and tolerance within political ideology and movements often shows up in the titles and metaphors they bring to the table. The Tea Party, for...
“This tastes really big!” “Yeah, it’s really good!” These were the exclamations shared by my wife and me upon our first taste of the black bean...
Perhaps best known for the energetic recordings and live appearances in the San Diego-based power pop outfit Roxy Monoxide, guitarist Scott Samuels has opted for the...
Bands that play Celtic-based acoustic folk and bluegrass music are often steeped in a tradition of established story songs, reels, and shanties that long ago established...
The best songs hurt. They bring us into heightened awareness of our own pain. They strip away the sugar coating and lay bare the hard truths...
