Tax Day blues

Did you get your taxes done today? Below, as you can see, the nice girls at Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club, Deja Vu, on Midway Drive offer relief to those seeking an extension. 🙂

The Armed Citizen

The Armed Citizen In the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting, one should not be too quick to condemn gun ownership, as it’s not always a bad thing. Our country needs to deal with mental illness, overall criminal behavior and society’s tendency to foster violence as a form of conflict resolution, not disarm. It’s too bad there were so few […]

Good Karma

Reviewer Magazine, available at Karma Coffee Shop, 1544 N. Cahuenga Blvd, in glamorous Hollywood-land, California. Photo by Jim Steinfeldt:

music reviews – John Ralston

Music Reviews by Kent Manthie John Ralston: “Needle Bed” (Vagrant Records) In an interview with the Miami Herald recently, John Ralston told reporter “I write everyday…it’s the only thing I do that really is something just for me.” On Ralston’s new CD “Needle Bed” it shows. A few months back, Ralston was playing in South Florida’s Legends of Rodeo when […]

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. November 11, 1922–April 11, 2007, R.I.P.

Kurt Vonnegut, dead at 84. The world has lost a great satirist and far-seeing humanitarian. ~RR

The Frames show review

The Frames @ The Belly Up, 4/6/2007 Show review and pic by Natalie Kardos Even though Irish band The Frames has been around since 1990, they’re just starting to make waves over here in the United States. Those ripples were readily apparent last night at the Belly Up Tavern. Even though there seemed to be more of a crowd for […]

The Thermals show review

The Thermals @ The Casbah,, 4/5/2007 Review and pics by Natalie Kardos “Hardly art/hardly garbage.” So spoke the Thermals in “No Culture Icons” off of their first album, More Parts Per Million. And so goes their music. Hardly art, insofar as it’s punk rock and thus rebelling against traditional art forms. Hardly garbage, because, well, it’s damn good music. And […]

Dirty Kings CD review

Dirty Kings CD review by Shannon Bates Dirty Kings Electric Dirt Even the cleanest of us would be intrigued by a band named Dirty Kings. The gritty guitars slide nicely into the first crunch of B.B. Cox’s angry-sexy voice. The album kicks up a notch for the second track, “Dirty Brown” (one of my favorites). While most of the lyrics […]