[Surf Music] Puerto, Portugal San Diego band Puerto’s Portugal CD of pre-pandemic tunes is easy to listen to surf music in the whimsical Dennis Wilson B-side vein, with strumming guitars and drum machine sounds. Melancholy lyrics and soft vocals in 6 songs that won’t harsh your buzz. [luxrecords.com]
cd review: Puerto, Portugal
Downtown Lofts Party
[Wayback Machine] Candid A photo of a girl I took at a downtown San Diego art event sometime in the early 2000’s. At the time there were still a few older loft buildings converted from commercial or sometimes something warehouse-like, but used now for intermediate purposes as they await the wrecker’s ball in the path of development. This girl was […]
Gwen Bates, FWSD 2023
[Interview] Gwen Bates Meeting the new organizer of Fashion Week San Diego Gwen Bates has bought the organization known as Fashion Week San Diego from its storied founder Allison Andrews sometime around the start of 2020 I think just as the Covid shutdown descended. FWSD made it though that whole scene and now it’s back. This interview was conducted impromptu […]
Judge Learned Hand, Defender of The Free Press
“It serves as the most vital of all general interests: the dissemination of news from as many different sources, and with as many different facets and colors as possible. That interest is closely akin to, if indeed it is not the same as, the interest protected by the First Amendment; it presupposes that right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues, than through any kind of authoritative selection. To many this is, and always will be folly; but we have staked upon it our all.” ~ Judge Learned Hand, as quoted during The Failing Newspaper Act hearings of 1967 by Senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan.