Auyon Mukharji was bescarved, delivering a mid-set speech full of large words to an audience that devoured them as though they were chubby green olives filled with prosciutto and white cheese. Tom from New Hampshire. Everyone in the crowd knew […]
Paul Simon: Words & Music, the wonderful new exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center opens to the public tomorrow, and it’s something else. This traveling show from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is making its only West Coast […]
Richard Nixon was president and gas was 35 cents per gallon, but John Batdorf has not forgotten the glories of New York’s majestic Carnegie Hall as he performed on stage in 1972. “It was a long time ago with Batdorf & […]
In my continuing effort to highlight DJs from all over the world, I present Rolf Hierath from Germany. He is a big Johnny Cash fan and does no less then three weekly radio shows. Bill Frater: Where and when did you […]
Sunday night brought the wildest winds Seattle had seen in nearly two decades, with roof shingles and tree branches soaring through the air like so many leaves. Performing solo at The Triple Door before the quartet Darlingside was to take the […]
I gave away all my Simon and Garfunkel vinyl in 1997, when Columbia released the excellent Old Friends box set. I figured I wouldn’t need the LPs because the three-CD anthology incorporated all the key album tracks, but I almost immediately regretted […]
