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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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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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 […]
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Rock of Ages
I’ve been reading about and looking at a lot of prehistoric art recently. Maybe when the future looks bleak enough, it’s a survival instinct to look back at the far distant past. Maybe it’s because I’ve been slowly making my way through David Graeber (RIP) and David Wengrow’s excellent 2021 book The Dawn of Everything […]