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returning the stones: Palos Verdes Stone

What Might Have Been Doesn’t Matter by Reviewer Rob This is a chunk of limestone I picked up from the side of the road in a development in Palos Verdes above Rocky Point and Lunada Bay areas sometime around eight or ten years ago. In 1963 my dad was a bartender in his mid thirties working at the Plush Horse […]

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Posted on July 22, 2014July 23, 2014
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rocks: sandstone fossil from Blacks Beach

Giving The Rock Back To The Place It Came From by Reviewer Rob I’ve collected rocks in the past but lately have been in the mood to return some of them to the places I got them from. (Below’s post material is from yesterday.) I took this strange rock back to the area I found it today. It’s a sandstone […]

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Posted on July 22, 2014July 22, 2014
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CRAZY EYE: Punkrock Thug Life with Ben johnson

Grammatical Tales On The Road With Tourettes Lautrec Ben Johnson’s adventurous 1997 tale from a tour in his early band to pre-Katrina New Orleans … Back in 1997, my band at the time, Tourettes Lautrec, was headed out on our fi rst nationwide tour. Through countless hours on the phone, calling bars that redirected you to varied booking agents and/or […]

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Posted on December 4, 2013December 4, 2013
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Down with the sickness – Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival Of Animation

[Film] Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival Of Animation Tweet 20th Anniversary, La Jolla Museum Of Contemporary Art, spikeandmike.com The internet has disrupted so many reliable institutions, it looks like Sick And Twisted Festival of Animation is one of them. Back in the early to mid 1980’s was when I first heard about this annual event called Spike & […]

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Posted on August 28, 2013August 28, 2013
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Escape To San Diego, by Ben Johnson

Escape To San Diego Tweet Sometime in the next few months (I don’t remember exactly when) marks twenty years since I moved back from Northern California to San Diego. by Ben Johnson **moving back** In the spring of ’92 I was broke, and many levels of drama had forced my eight roommates and myself to move out of our giant […]

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Posted on August 24, 2013August 25, 2013
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Alfredo Santiago, The Agency Models and Robert Mapplethorpe’s Original Hand-Altered Polaroids

When Outlaw Art Photography Entered Fashion Modeling Tweet THE AGENCY MODELS – THIRTY YEARS LATER, PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE at White Box Contemporary San Diego Resident Alfredo Santiago Remembers Robert Mapplethorpe Foray Into High Fashion Video by Katherine Sweetman, words by Reviewer Rob At the intersection of the fringe art-business world, fashion/modeling and extreme-art photography Robert Mapplethorpe emerged in the […]

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Posted on August 12, 2013August 14, 2013
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books: Secret Carnival Workers

[Books] Secret Carnival Workers by Paul Haines Tweet second review of a previously covered book: SECRET CARNIVAL WORKERS First covered in the Summer 2010 issue of Reviewer Here it is again because it’s JUST THAT GOOD. By Reviewer Rob Secret Carnival Workers (book) by Paul Haines, edited by Stuart Broomer with Emily Haines, with notes by Paul Haines by Carla […]

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Posted on July 4, 2013July 26, 2013
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Leo’s Historic Family Photo

“There is a special place in my heart for old photographs.” ~Leo Malevanchik Tweet San Diego Art and Fashion Photographer, and Former Russian Refusenik, Leo Malevanchik Shares His Precious Family Photo with Reviewer Magazine: Check out Leo Malevanchik’s description of the stern looking people his family heirloom photo below: “The man on the far left is narcom Maxim Letvinov. The […]

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Posted on June 18, 2013June 18, 2013

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