pop art

Shepard Fairey DJs at Coachella The OBEY Giant founder and piratey Obama campaign artist who GOT THE PRESIDENT ELECTED will DJ at Coachella tomorrow! From his website, obeygiant.com: UPDATE: SHEPARD AT COACHELLA, THIS SUNDAY!!! Hey people going to Coachella… are you interested in good music, how abou cool t-shirts? I’m DJing Sunday at 2:15 and I’ll be tossing out a […]

suburban sea-caving

Point Loma Sea Cave Exploring video and frame images by Reviewer Rob Did you ever get the feeling that the world was sometimes a place of almost invisible magic and adventure? That just maybe, if you looked a little harder, you’d find hidden treasures that had been overlooked and passed by, and that there was an undiscovered realm right under […]

shows

show coverage Pustules photos and video by Reviewer Rob Straight from Lyon, France, bar band The Pustules brought their high-school marching-band horn antics to Ocean Beach and played at the Harp on Newport Avenue on Sunday, the night after grooving a larger crowd up the street at Portugalia. They performed a long set that included many recognizable covers such as […]

uk scene

interview: Enter Shikari interviewed by Natasha Jones Synth and Metal, a genre that has exploded since Enter Shikari hit the scene, with enough metal for the moshers to get dirty, but enough synth to relax the more fragile; I caught up with Enter Shikari on their recent UK tour where they were debuting some of their second album material, being […]

Young and Beautiful, by Fingerpistol

cd review Generosity You Can Dance To band: Fingerpistol album: Young and Beautiful Reviewed by Billy Bunker I wrote a poem in ( I think it was 9th grade) and the teacher called my parents in and told them I’d plagiarized it. I swore up and down that I hadn’t and ultimately she couldn’t prove me wrong, but I don’t […]

art bio with pictures

Suria Kassimi duesseldorf.de/kuenstlerlebenmyspace.com/suriakassimi Qualification Art historian M. A. Education 1975 – 1980 HdK Berlin 1981 – 1986 Ruhr University of Bochum (Philosophy, Archeology, Art history, Roman languages and literature, Political science and Sociology) 1986 – 1989 Italy: Facoltà di Architettura Florence Università degli Studi di Bologna; div. Gallery practical courses in Rome and Bologna1989 – 1993 motherhood 1998 reaching of […]

NEW HAMPSHIRE BLACKOUT DISPATCH

[Last winter, during the ice storm of December 13, 2008, after after a series of texts amid news reports of regional blackouts, Lisa sent in this story about the terrible weather they were experiencing in New Hampshire. Took a while for me to post it but now with the website redesign I think it’s finally time. ~Rob] The Frigid Northeast […]

This Is The End

This Is The End or, well maybe it is not … of this blog. From now on, (or so I thought) all new posts will be HERE. But now it looks like I might be adding old files to the database and making it all one again. We shall see.