In an effort to catch up with bathing suit season and burn a few extra calories, I took a walk around the neighborhood after work one Monday. As I turned a corner, I noticed a …
August 1, 2019
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Wallace E. Cunningham’s Razor House
The “Razor House” at 9826 La Jolla Farms Road is so named for its location on a three-quarter-acre lot near Razor Point. The house is perched along the cliffs just south of Black’s Beach; in …
August 1, 2019
Algernon Charles Swinburne: the English counterpart to Edgar Allan Poe
August There were four apples on the bough, Half gold half red, that one might know The blood was ripe inside the core; The color of the leaves was more Like stems of yellow corn …
August 1, 2019
Sacri Monti’s Spinal Tap moments
“Last summer, our tour manager had a sleepwalking problem. One mellow night at a hotel in Milan, Italy he got up while everyone was asleep and took a nap — butt naked — in the …
August 1, 2019
Electric hoedown with hillbillies on steroids
Influenced by Hank Williams Jr., Merle Haggard, and similar renegade country stars, Sickstring Outlaws call themselves “hillbillies on steroids” and describe their live show as an “electric hoedown.” Frontman Ron Houston started off as an …
August 1, 2019
How Mike Wallace helped turn TV news into show business
Remember 60 Minutes, America’s first TV news magazine? Remember its tenacious terrier of a host, Mike Wallace, he of the insistent, accusatory question? Yes? No? C’mon, the guy interviewed Putin just a few years ago. …
August 1, 2019
Red House Kitchen’s “Donax Don’t Tell” — a beautiful, scrumptious mess
My friend Hank and I are both desperately trying to lose weight. I can’t seem to break 210. That’s why I’m coming to meet Hank at this brekky/lunch place he told me about. It’s a …
August 1, 2019
Iration and Chali 2na guest on reggae band Hirie’s latest
Carnifex’s seventh studio album World War X, which drops August 2 via Nuclear Blast, will be supported on the Summer Slaughter tour with the Faceless, Rivers of Nihil, Nekrogoblikon, and Brand of Sacrifice. The first …
August 1, 2019