April 28th, 2008 03:27pm
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In SoCo we fling dried cow dung for the sake of bragging rights.
But down on the Florida panhandle coast (yup, i’m visting la familia back in the Southland again), they wing dead mullet as far as they can down the beach in front of one of the most authentic Southern roadhouses still alive today – the FloraBama Lounge.
Strategy rules: “Fold it like a sandwich, throw it like a …
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April 24th, 2008 08:05pm
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Ever feel like you’re not getting anywhere in life? Like you’re
just shoveling poo?
Spending too much time slinging it?
Therapy: Try winging a cow chip.
Call them meadow muffins, pasture patties or cow pies,
Not to be confused with the donkey apple, the cow chip – a
disc of dung sun-dried into nature’s Frisbee – has been around since, well, the
very first bovine grazer.
And as long as cowpokes have wiled away the time on …
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April 21st, 2008 09:44pm
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Imagine my surprise when I checked in backstage Sunday afternoon at the Green Apple Festival and met up with Dead fixer Dennis McNally only to find out I’d already missed the show – the latest cheeseball reality TV du jour.
It turns out Tommy Lee and Ludacris are racing around the country to see who’s the most green. I kid you not. It’s a new Discovery Channel laugh riot called …
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April 18th, 2008 12:59pm
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It’s been said many times before – most recently by Paula Abdul on “American Idol” and as far back as the age of Ella – “She could sing the phone book and…”Fill in the blank with “sound good” or “I’d listen.”
But here’s what I wanna know: Can she act the phone book?
Saturday night at the Glaser Center, 10 of the finest SoCo actors (Eric Burke, Danielle Cain, Denise Elia, Eliot …
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April 17th, 2008 07:31pm
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“It’s not about drums,” says Mickey Hart. “It’s not about
drumming. It’s about raising energy and transmuting it. You know, changing that
spirit that you get – into something you can work with, something empowering.”
You might know him as the fiery, charismatic Grateful Dead
drummer who toured the world for what seemed like eons.
But at home, he’s just Dad, doing all the little things -
recycling, changing the light bulbs, making the move to …
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April 16th, 2008 03:18am
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It’s been decades, but Chris Blum still remembers the random phone call around 11 o’clock one night back in the ’80s.
“Tom says, ‘Hey, Chris Blackwell’s over here and we’re talking about doing a film. Come on over and let’s talk about it.’”
The “Tom” would be Tom Waits, who was living on the edge of Koreatown in Los Angeles at the time. And Chris Blackwell of course would be the founder …
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April 15th, 2008 06:54pm
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Finally, as foreshadowed in the mythology of indie vinyl lore, Judgment Day has arrived.
(Can I get an amen?)
Repent! You dodgy lil’ downloaders of digital music.
Have you no heart? No soul? No instant recall of Jack Black schooling that poor old Dad in “High Fidelity”?
Here’s a comic reminder passed on by Doug Jayne at The Last Record Store:
Saturday is not Certified Public Accountant Day or Grow Your Own Boss Day….it’s …
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April 12th, 2008 03:48pm
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Hey, I couldn’t make it to the Ani DiFranco show last night at the WFC so I tapped guest blogger Cali Knight to brave the adoring masses and hit all the highlights:
Best Mom moment: Talking about her daughter, Petah, who’s on the road with her, she told the crowd, “So I’ve had a baby hanging off my (breast) for about 15 months now…the things they don’t tell you, like hemorrhoids, …
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April 11th, 2008 08:03pm
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When I met up with Sonoma Valley Film Festival director
Marc Lhormer at the Sebastiani Theater on Wednesday, he was suffering from a
severe case of “club throat.”
It can only mean one thing: The filmmakers are in
town and he was out partying hard the night before.
With an Odwalla I.V. and
the cellphone glued to his ear, he’s giddy about the 11th annual
foodie film festival (which kicked off Wednesday and runs through …
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April 10th, 2008 01:57am
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Ani DiFranco is in a cozy place these days. You can hear it in the way she laughs throughout the interview. The way she talks about being “happy again.” The way she looks back on her loneliness as an angry young punk folkie.
A mom for over a year now, she’s over the lesbians who bashed her for getting married (to a man).
A self-made indie conglomerate, the Righteous Babe label …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
