It’s 2:30 in the morning on a Monday in 2013. Matthew Strachota is standing on the sidewalk against the wall of a concrete commercial building with...
Last month we lost a special music friend. Dane Terry lost his life in a motorcycle on February 13. Not only was he a kind and...
On a rare, rainy San Diego night where the asphalt glistens black and slick, people stand outside under an awning, waiting for admission to what looks...
From the brochure: A new work of historical drama, set in 1847, at the height of Ireland’s Great Famine. Featuring an original score of contemporary acoustic...
In 1965 Eric Clapton opted to leave a plum gig as lead guitarist for the hit-making Yardbirds to join John Mayall’s Blues Breakers. The musician was...
Marcus Bashore is probably best known in the Southern California music community as a blues drummer. But, in reality, Bashore has pursued his artistry in several...
If you’re of a certain age, you remember the Gidget movies from the ’60s. Girls in bikinis that seemed scandalous but weren’t, the Watusi dance around...
On February 3,, 1959, while sitting on the broke-down school bus in Fargo, Minnesota, Dion DiMucchi couldn’t feel the weight of the tragedy that had just...
JAVA JOE’S SHOW OF SHOWS It was over 30 years ago that Java Joe Flammini opened the first incarnation of his legendary string of performance venues,...
