FRANK BROWNING
May 31, 20186 min read
Paris, May '68: You Say It Was a Revolution?
The pervasive posters, video-docs, street banners and public seminars in France are clear signs that millions want to remember 1968. But...
Clay Coppedge
May 31, 20188 min read
Fool’s Gold
My own experience verifies what cops have told me — that 10 percent of the criminal population commits 90 percent of all the crimes they...
Bill Bentley
May 30, 20182 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / More Haiku Reviews
With so many reissues falling from the sky, it's time to throw a batch together and try the haiku review spin on them. Whoever said...
Bob Brown
May 16, 201836 min read
U Pull — We Pull
Smitty’s Salvage 15 Acres Used Parts Foreign and Domestic We Pay Cash for Cars U Pull — We Pull Call 313 - JUNK Depictions of engine...
George Rains
May 15, 20189 min read
Ft. Worth Underground
Part 3 of 'Cellar Dweller' The original Cellar was a raunchy coffee house in a refurbished basement on Houston Street in downtown Fort...
Michael Ventura
May 14, 20189 min read
Ventura at 4am / March 24 2018: History As This Afternoon
Note: My first draft was written on the afternoon and early evening of March 24th. Pneumonia intervened. The piece was completed in May....
Bill Bentley
May 9, 201810 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / May 2018
Ry Cooder, The Prodigal Son. When Ry Cooder decides to rear back and hit one completely out of the park, it is always a sight to hear....
Frank Browning
May 8, 20184 min read
Gold: Power, Beauty and Regret
If you’re aiming for Gold (and at some level who isn’t?), go to the Port of Marseille, France’s rough and tough Mediterranean port town. ...
George Rains
May 7, 20185 min read
Step Away From the Duck
Part 2 of Cellar Dweller It was Pat Kirkwood’s idea that we should all get arrested for roasting ducks at the City Park Duck Pond in Fort...
Jon Carroll / joncarrollprose.com / Photos Tracy
May 3, 20183 min read
Jon Carroll / High Desert Gothic I: Artifacts
It all started with a mistake. In the 70s, when we lived in Los Angeles and worked against deadline, we often spent weekends at Joshua...
Elliott Negin
May 3, 20186 min read
EPA Chief Pruitt Even Violates His Own Principles
With Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s job now hanging in the balance, it is a good time to recall that, just...
George Rains
May 2, 20188 min read
Cellar Dweller, Part One
First of Three Parts The Cellar began as an eccentric little coffee house in a dank, dark basement underneath Houston Street in downtown...
