The longest running Jazz Festival in the world celebrates its 60th birthday this month in beautiful Monterey, California. If you love live music and especially jazz,...
It is damn near impossible not to be a reactionary in the modern-day world; depending upon what sort of historical/hysterical constructs you embrace. And it is...
The medium is the message. – Marshall McLuhan (1911—1980) Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. – Bill Hicks (1961—1994) If...
They began as a sign of the times – a small, high school rock ‘n roll band in the late 1960s. Before long the West Coast...
There’s the known. And there’s the unknown. And what separates the two is the door. And that’s what I want to be. I want to be...
Dogma = the death of creativity. – Anonymous Tribe (as defined by Merriam-Webster): a social group comprising numerous families, clans, or generations together with slaves, dependents,...
Renaissance (as defined by Merriam-Webster): rebirth, revival; a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity. Revolution (as defined by Merriam-Webster): the action by a...
The 6400 block of Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard is a busy place on Sunday mornings. On one side of the street is Amoeba Records, one of the...
PART TWO If everybody were an artist, there wouldn’t be any wars. – Harry Smith (1923—1991) In the age of information, where knowledge is the key...
