July 30th, 2008 02:51am
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Ozomatli at the Fillmore or the Warfield is one thing. It happens all the time: The steady barrage of horns and rhythmic diaspora that engulf a crowd. The massive Latino wall of sound that stirs up a happy, jumpy frenzy. Ozoheads around the world have come to expect it.
But at the Sonoma County Fair, it’s an entirely different dynamic. Just ask the kids who took the stage for the last …
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July 29th, 2008 05:08pm
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When George Carlin’s final comedy album, “It’s Bad For Ya,” comes
out today, you’ll hear the Santa Rosa crowd chiming in every step of the way -
especially, in what is now an almost eerie riff about getting old: “You know
what I’ve been doing?” Carlin said. “Going through my address book and crossing
out the dead people. It gives you a feeling of power, of superiority, to have
outlasted another old friend.”
Recorded at the …
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July 27th, 2008 05:57am
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It’s something they don’t prepare you for on “American Idol”: A bug flying into your mouth while you’re belting out a song.
(In fact, do Simon and the gang even prepare you for outdoor shows?)
Three years after winning “American Idol,” Carrie Underwood has moved on to Country Queen. She’s traded in the aw-shucks Okie-from-Muskogee charm for a sassy Nashville swagger.
Saturday night, in front of more than 4,000 screaming fans at Konocti …
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July 24th, 2008 05:15pm
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This week’s entertainment equation goes like this: Short
attention span + incomplete sentences = Top 5 List.
1. Has it really been a year? Paul Stokeld (”Hello, mate!”)
and the gang down at The Toad in the Hole are celebrating a year in the
business of raising a pint and staging all genres of music in Railroad Square. It
all starts tonight with Brian Kenney Fresno and The Lemon Lime Lights. Saturday
is the official anniversary …
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July 17th, 2008 02:58pm
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When sales whiz Richard Milton Hollingshead Jr. invented the
drive-in movie back in the ’30s, he mounted a Kodak film projector to the hood
of his car and projected images on a screen hung from two trees.
It was DIY before DIY.
These days, the exact same scene goes down guerrilla-style.
Movie mobs converge on the Oakland warehouse
district or stake out the railroad tracks in Santa Cruz, screen “A Clockwork Orange” and
vanish like a pack …
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July 15th, 2008 06:49pm
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Tom Waits, the man who loathes scalpers so much he singlehandedly
revolutionized the way Ticketmaster does business with ticketless entry (show
your credit card and ID at the door) recently had a change of heart: He decided
to get in on the action and scalp his own tickets.
Holding charity auctions from Phoenix to Atlanta, SoCo’s Boo
Radley hawked tickets to his own sold-out shows and raised over $15,000 for Summerfield
Waldorf school, Children’s Village of …
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July 12th, 2008 05:14am
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OK, this was my quickie mini-review that ran in the paper after seeing only three songs (I had to file something by 9:30 p.m. that’s just the way newspaper deadlines go):Props are everything in physical comedy and Friday night at the Mystic Theater Billy Bob Thornton had all the essentials: The cigarette lit in the dark, the Bud Light held high for the most applause in the first three songs …
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July 10th, 2008 04:28pm
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If you missed it, here’s my interview with Billy Bob Thornton, who’s dropping by the Mystic Friday night with a schticky lil hillbilly outfit called The Boxmasters.
Here go a few audio excerpts from the interview:
- On the inspiration behind the line “I’ll give you a ring when
you give me back my balls” and the curse of pot-smoking epiphanies
- On the never-ending media curse of Angelina and the Playboy interview …
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July 10th, 2008 03:06pm
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Gabby La La has done it all: She’s recorded with Macy Gray,
shared many a stage with Primus ringleader Les Claypool and backed up Snoop
Dogg on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”
She’s played The Fillmore, The Warfield and Bonnaroo, even
appearing on “Romper Room” when she was a kid.
Rumor has it she’s working on a pilot for a children’s show,
but that’s total “gossip” at this point, she says.
In describing her music, words …
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July 2nd, 2008 02:14am
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Here are a few loose ends before I head out for a quickie vacation:
Tucked away amid all the generic Fourth of July blast-offs and rocket launches, the town of Monte Rio does something kinda cool: Organizers stream a curtain of water from the Monte Rio Bridge and project images onto the hydro screen while fireworks go boom overhead. Get there around dusk on Saturday, July 5.
Friday’s fifth annual Bicycle Santa …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
