RampArt Skatepark is holding a hip hop show tonight at 8 p.m. hosted by local artist Attribute and the lineup looks like it’s well worth a midweek getdown. Top of the roster is Krayzie Bone, a key player and founding member of seminal ’90s hip hop mavericks Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, as well as affiliated rapper “Big” […]
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River Man
Aldous Huxley had a regular column in Esquire Magazine in the mid-1950s where he once observed, “The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong; the next most distressing thing is to be proved right.” He was revisiting the legacy of his novel A Brave New World during the […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 15
Hot on the heels of the Hip Hop Humboldt Holiday hoedown earlier this month comes another group cypher with a lot of the same names on the marquee. This one’s at Humbrews and it comes in two stages, so listen up. 6-9 p.m. is the free all-ages Fatbol cypher. After 9:30 p.m., however, it’s $10 […]
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New Moon Fever
I don’t attribute much of human behavior to the far-out celestial bodies in our solar system. Credit that to a rebellious streak I’m employing against my now-deceased parents who met in the 1970s in a transcendental “community” that was somewhat active in that archetyping. I don’t worry about which planet is in retrograde. I do, […]
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Summer’s Sweetest Songs
“He’s a moody old man/ song of summer in his hand/ he’s a moody old man.” So begins Kate Bush’s “Delius (Song of Summer),” a gorgeous, impressionistic paean to the English composer Frederick Delius and his assistant Eric Fenby, who was placed into the position of scribe by the master’s deterioration at the ugly hand […]