As usual, there are many, many, many events going on all over the county. In years past I detailed quite a few of them, but lately I’ve remembered that this column isn’t called the calendar for a reason, so I’m only going to detail two shows, all live music with great bands, in an area […]
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The King in Yellow
Written in the last decade of the 19th century, Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow inhabits a high-water mark in the lineage of weird fiction and is like nothing else in the canon, including the other published works by the author himself. Only a couple of the stories follow the titular theme to its […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Aug. 5
I have two festivals to recommend today, each on either end of our county’s share of the 101. First up on the northside at 3 p.m., RampArt Skate Park is home to Bushfest, a metal-palooza full of shredders and screamers, priced at a very reasonable $20 for 13 bands, $15 if you get an early-bird […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, April 3
Another Monday night, another installment of Metal Mondays over at Savage Henry Comedy Club. Tonight’s offering is full of talent, including Greybush, Racket, Sadistic Hallucinations, and Malicious Algorithm at 7p.m. ($10). Those last two sound like something that would happen in the Meta-verse, am I right folks? The Meta-verse … I’ll be here all week, […]
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The Many Rites of Spring
The birth of the modern world, the fresh and terrible 20th century, is a tough date to pin down, but an argument can be made, culturally at least, that the natal fluids ran red and voluminous in Paris on May 29, 1913, when Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring debuted to an audience that was so […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 4
Local metal mavens Greybush are filming a music video at RampArt skatepark starting at 5 p.m. It’s $12 to get in, $5 if you are participating in the shoot, and a deal either way, as this will be another skatepark manifest, featuring War Möth, Flub, Bloodspire and Wastewalker. Having gone to last weekend’s heavy shindig […]
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In Dreams
I’ve been a little out there lately. Mostly late at night, when “the candy-colored clown they call the Sandman” whispers in my ears to inform me of the evening’s entertainment to be displayed in the oneiromantic playground of my dreams. I have a couple events to blame it on, as two of my best friends […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Nov. 14
Metal Mondays continue over at Savage Henry Comedy Club at 7 p.m. Tonight’s bill is a full roster, featuring Greybush, Psyop Victim, War Möth and a band whose name was told to me once, quickly forgotten (my bad) and then utterly impossible to decipher from the flier due to that occasional metalhead habit of borrowing […]
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The Curtain Hits the Cast
I woke up on Sunday thinking about writing about the upcoming election, maybe some piece where I ramp up the direness of the results to see if I am actually a modern-day Cassandra or just another crank (probably). Instead, I was greeted by the news that Mimi Parker, one half of my favorite band, had […]
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Bivalve Bedlam
One of my favorite sounds is the soft rustle of a breeze through the leaves of a tree. I’m talking about broad leaves here, like a maple tree, not the evergreens that tend to populate our forests, and whose branches creak and groan in the wind like the ghosts of old washerwomen attending to the […]