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The Sweat Descends: Les Savy Fav @ the El Rey
My friend Solly came down last weekend on a miniature vacation from Seattle. She was unlucky enough to have the rain follow her down and catch up to her by Monday, but the weekend
Read More »Handel’s Messiah @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
This is a pretty vast digression from the concerts I’m normally going to review here. For one thing, I don’t normally patronize “the arts.” For another, the bands I see are normally “on tour”
Read More »New Anthems to Breathe: Matt Nathanson @ The Troubadour
Before heading over to the Troubadour for the Matt Nathanson show I took my girlfriend out for an “appreciation night” to thank her for enduring some horrendous traffic the previous Friday to pick me
Read More »Writers on Fire: the Writers Guild Strike and the Malibu Wildfires
On Friday morning, driving down Olympic, I noticed that the marine layer was conspicuously thick and gray. I had been out of town for the fires last month, so I was a bit slow
Read More »Radio Nowhere: Is Clear Channel Sandbagging the Boss’ New Album?
It was recently reported (by Fox News, of all places) that Clear Channel radio stations had been instructed not to play tracks from Bruce Springsteen’s new album, Magic. It’s been impossible to ignore all
Read More »Justifying Your Citizenship in the Red Sox Nation
Why am I rooting for the Red Sox in the World Series? Because I grew up in New England. That should be all there is to it, right? I could spin tales about spending
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