February 29th, 2008 02:52am
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The skin-and-ink carnival returns to the Flamingo Hotel this weekend for the 17th annual Tattoos and Blues Festival.
Every year the circus acts try to outdo each other (RIP Capt. Don Leslie, the late great sword swallower who will be remembered in tributes at 7 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday).
We caught up with The Snake Lady (she who dances with a 200-pound python around her neck) in her Lucerne lair.
Paying …
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February 28th, 2008 04:48pm
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By now you’ve probably heard about the Tommy Tutone sightings around Santa Rosa. One night he’s hopping up on stage with Five A.M. at the Russian River Brew Co. (rumor has it owner Natalie Cilurzo’s trying to talk him into playing a little piano there on occasion). Another night, he’s playing a crab feed or doing the Boomer White Stripes thing with Pulsators drummer Johnny Campbell at the Sweet Spot.
Tutone …
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February 26th, 2008 05:26pm
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Last year’s NoisePop kick-off soiree smelled like this:
Chunking up the Mezzanine, Har Mar Superstar was freakin’ hilarious (even in b&w, as was the Extra Action Marching Band)….so what’s on for the launch tonight?
NoisePop Numero XVI promises less skin and more bathing, fewer crack dealers out front and more slave-labor two-wheeled pedicabs for the getaway, kicking it off girlie-style with L.A. dance-party kiddie punk queens Mika Miko (apologies to Shel …
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February 22nd, 2008 03:30pm
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Adored and fondled by critics around the globe, Deerhoof incites more of a bipolar response from the masses.
You either love ‘em or hate ‘em.
I still remember being surprised by occasional heckling and catcalls when the SF indie noise-pop outfit opened for Radiohead at the Greek a few
years back. Maybe it’s singer Satomi Matsuzaki’s flitty vocals. Or the atonal surges and fluttering flights of fancy that bend time signatures and …
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February 21st, 2008 02:33am
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After five decades in the comic biz – 50 years of cussing and cracking on anything anyone could possibly hold sacred – George Carlin is still pissed off.
Just don’t call him a cynic.
Realist, yes.
Skeptic, sure.
Even “disappointed idealist.”
“Cynic is a different word and I don’t cop to it,” he says.
The fast-talking New Yorker who force-fed us the classic “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television,” still logs …
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February 15th, 2008 07:26pm
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Itching to get in the mood for the V-Day Weekend, I hopped a
ride on the jungle love sex tour at Safari West earlier this week. Nothing like getting
all hot and bothered out on the Serengeti.
Spoiler Alert: I never actually witnessed anyone doing the
deed – apparently equivalent to The Second Coming out on the beasty voyeur
circuit (an annual cult ritual started years ago by a San Francisco zookeeper who passed it …
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February 15th, 2008 06:57pm
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Yesterday, while waiting for my Valentine to arrive, I waited for the 6 o’clock bell to chime on the Ferry Building tower in San Francisco while thousands of lovers (and Cupid haters) waited to beat each other over the head with pillows….
It was true love….it was therapy….it snowed goose down for hours:
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February 14th, 2008 05:36pm
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Scratch goatee. Ponder floor. Drag on cigarette.
The guys in Stiff Dead Cat can’t seem to remember any good
road stories.
“Ask us later in the night when we’ve had more to drink,”
says drummer Jesse Rudolph.
On a cloudless Tuesday night outside Forestville,
they’re rehearsing in a moldy cabin with a creek running beneath it. Across the
dirt road is In the Pocket Studios, where they recorded “Molotov
Barbecue.”
The leaky space is also known as Old Man …
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February 11th, 2008 05:14pm
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My pick for best Valentine’s show:
Promising presents galore if you dress in pink, Gabby La La lugs her beast of a sitar (and menagerie of otherworldly music makers) down to
the Toad in the Hole Thursday night because she wants to be your Valentine songbird.
Are you a cheap date? It’s only $5.
And Toady Hole bangers-and-mash maestro Chris Stokeld promises not to sing “Danny Boy.”
I caught lil Ms. La La last …
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February 8th, 2008 02:50pm
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Donning habits and flowing robes, actors Jeremy Berrick and Curtis Hoffmann took a spin around Sonoma Plaza the other day.
They terrorized small babies and cigar-puffing tourists with sacerdotal psalms and melodious morals – all for the sake of improv and character development leading up to the premiere of “Nunsense A-men” this weekend.
Billed as “Mrs. Doubtfire enters the convent,” the musical hail mary opens Friday at the Playbox, 7202 Sonoma …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
