Eating people is the ultimate control You won’t find Dahmer’s Diner on the bill at the Cannibal Bar in Mission Beach. In fact, DD has been banned from all but two venues in town, SOMA …
September 19, 2021
On May 15, 2005, Young was named Poet Laureate of California.
An excerpt from Young's work ran in the Reader music section: Somebody Done Hoodoo'd the Hoodoo Man
Articles by Al Young
Dahmer's Diner, Nico, Deadheads, Paul Williams
Al Young: How magic inspired my poetry
Crazy-quilt patches of somber and giddy sound formed the literal fabric of my tender world. I grew up in homes where the verbal jam session was a floating and usually festive fixture. Clusters of people …
April 6, 1995
Charles McPherson at home and at ease
Is the ballad still valid? Even in the half-light of the Palace Bar at the Horton Grand Hotel in San Diego's muted Gaslamp District, I can see nothing but mock seriousness in Charles McPherson's movie-star …
October 27, 1994