SPRING BREAK 2006 WITH THE VANDALS DESTINATION: AFGANISTAN!!!!!!!! Orange County punk rock legends the Vandals will once again take their act to the theater of war next month as they head to Southern Asia to play for the armed forces troops deployed in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. The Vandals, who first made the trek to the region […]
THE VANDALS IN AFGANISTAN
restaurant review: Paradise Lounge
restaurant review: Paradise Lounge & Grill (full bar, & next door: Deja Vu Showgirls) 2730 Midway Drive, San Diego phone: 619-225-8110 review by Kent Manthie Next door to the Midway area Déjà Vu, where the old Boll Weevil Restaurant used to be, new life has been breathed into this colorful little building, in the form of Paradise Lounge and Grill. […]
People Who Didn't Die
Journalist Jill Carroll Released in Iraq By Jonathan Finer and Ellen Knickmeyer Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, March 30, 2006; 11:18 AM BAGHDAD, March 30 — American journalist Jill Carroll, abducted in early January by gunmen in Baghdad, was released to a Sunni Arab political party in the capital Thursday morning after 82 days in captivity. “I was treated very […]
issue 32 music reviews
Music Reviews for issue 32 (with one DVD review) by Vikkee Payge Tarantella Esqueletos This album is the band’s first full-length album, and it’s beautiful. The haunting fiddle playing by Kelly O’Dea flows with the mournful melodies of lead singer Kal Calhoone like water. The album, sung in both English and Spanish, mixes Western twang with traditional Spanish and Italian […]
#32.3 Music Reviews
The Lashes: “Get It” (Columbia Records) A lot of people have this fixed idea of Seattle as a dreary, overcast, depressing rainy place and for good reason, since it does rain all the time there. When you mention that a particular band is from Seattle, one likewise associates the Seattle connection as a de facto genre of music, due to […]
Music Reviews, #32.4
Airport 81: “Get Your Squares Together” (Breathing Room Records) Listening to “Get Your Squares Together”, by Airport 81, a musical project based in San Diego, my senses were piqued. The icy dream-tracks on here make me think of stark European landscapes; gray English overcast landscapes mixed with steely German minimalism. Airport 81 does a fabulous job of marrying mechanized, computerized, […]
Crazy Streak book review
Crazy Streak, By John Gilmore, 2005, Scapegoat Press Review by Kent Manthie Growing up in a small town must be pretty stultifying; anyone with the smallest amount of ambition would do all they can to get the hell out as soon as they’re able. Well, Bobby McGee is no exception. To escape, Bobby had gone into the army a couple […]
donc va la guerre
Dear friends, As you may know, there’s been a recent change in the print cycle of Reviewer. After doing this many years and being consistently issued as a bimonthly, Reviewer magazine will now be a semiannual. The web page will be updated with news and reviews though, so if you have a submission you would like considered, please feel free […]