It’s a great night to pre-game and tailgate the upcoming weekend, as we have an early evening metal show at the Siren’s Song Tavern at 7 p.m. The line-up consists of Oakland’s Merked, an insanely fast and unrelenting grind-type of act, along with local heroes Kolonizer — the punk band with the delightful pink Barbie […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Feb 9
Portland, Oregon’s Fox Medicine is a metal band with bright imagery, referring to their genre as “bubblegum doom.” Which is fairly on the mark, as far as I can recall from the last time I caught their act when they rolled through town. Tonight these glossy blitz-makers will be posted up at the Siren’s Song […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 8
There’s a big metal show tonight at 7 p.m. at Savage Henry Comedy Club. Los Angeles powerviolence band ACxDC has had a large touring schedule lately and are headlining one with New Orleans newcomers Brat, whose style of punk and metal comes with a pink glam patina. On the undercard are local heroes Malicious Algorithm […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Nov. 6
I don’t mind boosting another Metal Monday night at Savage Henry Comedy Club because the lineups are good at balancing local talent with touring acts, I’m happy to support anything resembling a local metal scene and this regular gig is dependable, and Mondays are a tough field to carve out anything lasting on, and I […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, April 24
Here we go again, another Metal Monday over at Savage Henry Comedy Club at 7 p.m. Los Angeles grind band Cancer Christ joins forces with a squad of local acts, including Dead Drift, Mystery Meat and Human Soup Hot Tub, the latter of which wins the ignoble distinction of making me gag every time I […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, April 18
What’s that you say? You’d like a little more metal in your ears? Well, here ya go. The Siren’s Song Tavern is hosting Canada’s death metal act Atrae Bilis (“black bile”) at 7 p.m., for a show that will include support acts Echo Death and Sacrophilus Satanicus. As I do with as many of the […]
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The Gold Bug
After having proved the metal with aqua fortis, which I found in my apothecary shop, likewise with other experiments, and read the long article ‘gold’ in the Encyclopedia Americana, I declared this to be gold of the finest quality, of at least 23 carats.” — From “The Discovery Of Gold In California,” by “Captain” John […]
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Survey Markers and Olympic Medals
Observant walkers strolling down Ninth Street in Eureka between A and L streets may have wondered about the occasional incongruent circular metal discs anchored into the south sidewalk bearing the words “CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS,” “HUM-101” and the date 1971. Incongruent because Ninth is outside Caltrans jurisdiction. In fact, the discs are centerline markers of […]