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Kraken's still makin' noise
Glad to hear the Kraken will continue to host live music - that's the first place in Cardiff I ever went to see a band, and locals like Jeff Moore and the Witchdoctors have been regulars on that stage since the Stones' age! As usual, the Reader is the only paper in town with the true and current scoop --
— July 24, 2015 6:30 a.m.
Can Ché stay?
Upcoming shows at the Che include Saddest Landscape, Dangers, and State Fault on October 24.
— July 19, 2015 7:54 p.m.
Comic-Con rocks!
There's also a Comic-Con Concert at Lestat's tonight/Wednesday, a Comic-Con Party at Onyx Room's Rumba Lounge on Friday and Saturday, and Crave Online's "Escape" Comic-Con Party on Friday aboard the USS Midway Museum with Cold War Kids, Bad Suns, Cathedrals, Gwendoline Christie (*Game of Thrones, Star Wars EP VII*), and Nathalie Emmanuel (*Game of Thrones, Furious 7*).
— July 8, 2015 3:10 p.m.
Vinyl avalanche!
Perils o' vinyl hoarding, I once tried to move my 4000-album collection and broke the axle of the rental truck.
— June 25, 2015 6:01 p.m.
Popsicle punk
Update: Contrary to Steve Poltz's "one night only" post about the Rugburns reunion at Bar Pink on Tuesday the 23rd, they're playing at Java Joes on the 24th (with Jose Sinatra, who's on his "farewell" tour) and on the 25th (with Jeff Berkley), according to Java's booker, who posted both shows on the Reader site yesterday. The Bar Pink website still only shows their regular Tiki Tuesday event on the 23rd, so it's anybody's guess whether the 'Burns will really show up there too ----
— June 17, 2015 6:45 p.m.
John Lennon's guitar found in San Diego
Followup report at
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/jun/17/bl…
— June 17, 2015 5:36 p.m.
The Press War
Was just going to browse this, but found it too riveting to stop until I got to the end - fascinating tales of one of our city's early press wars. I chuckled out loud at nearly every one of Foltz's witty - and increasingly acerbic - quotes, especially this from her farewell column in the Bee, with its one-fingered "salute" to her corrupted competitors in the paper news biz: “The editor who would avoid clashing with the opinions of others must write platitudes merely...we did not care to enter a field already so admirably filled.”
— June 10, 2015 7:23 p.m.
My LaserDisc collection numbered exactly one
Bought my first Beta machine in 1984 - first tapes, The Beatles: Let It Be and Easy Rider. Didn't downgrade to inferior VHS until over 10 years later, after filling several hundred beta tapes that I haven't been able to play in a working machine for 20 years now. Held out on DVDs until 2004, when I bought a copy of Pink Floyd: The Wall at the same time as the machine. I still have a dew dozen laserdiscs I bought at a yard sale that I've never had a machine to play. I just last month started finally duping my most rare VHS gems to DVD, including almost 200 hours of the old USA TV cult program Night Flight. Soon, I'm buying a refurbished beta player, so I can start duping the best of those old '80s tapes to DVD. Still never downloaded a movie or watched one on a computer, other than a couple of YouTube rarities unavailable elsewhere. And I kinda want a Laserdisc player, to play those yard sale goodies. I seem to be working my way thru movie tech backwards!
— June 10, 2015 1:42 p.m.
John Lennon's guitar found in San Diego
Interesting theories floating around online about how the Beatles guitar may have landed in San Diego. People are already tracking the tour histories of the next few bands who played the same overseas venue as the Beatles, just after the guitar went missing (accidentally left backstage by Mal Evans), which seems an excellent way to find a band that MAY have gone to San Diego shortly after that. Tho the guitar may have instead stayed overseas for years or decades, it does seem possible that whoever found it KNEW it was "hot," even if they didn't know whose guitar it was, and may have sold it off on one of their next tour stops...in San Diego....
— June 9, 2015 3:35 p.m.
Listen, the All-Star Game's here next year. You guys better clean up East Village
Great writeup on how East Village is rushing from soup kitchen to skyscraper, Dryw! I lived on 12th and Island in the late 70s thru early 80s and have fond memories of that Bohemian Bakery that Navarra mentions, it was just outside my window at the old Palms Hotel flophouse, and many of us practically lived off the day old throwaways. Everyone there was pretty poor. The closest thing to a supermarket was the Popular Market on 12th and Broadway, tho there were plenty of tiny mom-and-pop markets that came and went within any storefront big enough for a vat of pinto beans and a refrigerator. Besides the multiple adult education centers mentioned in the article, there were also something like seven thrift stores within five square blocks, including gigantic half-block Amvets and Salvation Army shops almost side by side along 12th. Didn't cost more than a few bucks to fully clothe and furnish our lives, most of which were spent pretty close to home. Back then, long before we could have imagined a trolley line running in front of the Palms, there was a detox center across the street that doubled as surreal street theater for those of us without a TV and time to soak in the panoramic views from atop the Hotel roof (a sprawling tarpaper oasis for homeless squatters willing to dare the rusty fire escape ladders for a view that went from Golden Hill to Coronado). On the other side of the Bohemian Bakery was a dive-of-the-damned bar called Beasley's, where the disposition of the neighborhood quickly went from mildly disreputable to decidedly felonious. That said, there were also rural touches in East Village, as well as the occasional Victorian home. There was a big gingerbread-trim house on 13th and Island nearly overgrown with shrubbery where roosters went off each morning and thousands of noisy chirping birds roosted in the palm trees surrounding the property, creating a Hitchcockian cacophony that could nearly deafen passersby at sunrise and sunset. A quirky neighborhood, then and now - thanks for the excellent report on it!
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2015/j…
— June 8, 2015 2:21 p.m.
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Kraken's still makin' noise
Glad to hear the Kraken will continue to host live music - that's the first place in Cardiff I ever went to see a band, and locals like Jeff Moore and the Witchdoctors have been regulars on that stage since the Stones' age! As usual, the Reader is the only paper in town with the true and current scoop --— July 24, 2015 6:30 a.m.
Can Ché stay?
Upcoming shows at the Che include Saddest Landscape, Dangers, and State Fault on October 24.— July 19, 2015 7:54 p.m.
Comic-Con rocks!
There's also a Comic-Con Concert at Lestat's tonight/Wednesday, a Comic-Con Party at Onyx Room's Rumba Lounge on Friday and Saturday, and Crave Online's "Escape" Comic-Con Party on Friday aboard the USS Midway Museum with Cold War Kids, Bad Suns, Cathedrals, Gwendoline Christie (*Game of Thrones, Star Wars EP VII*), and Nathalie Emmanuel (*Game of Thrones, Furious 7*).— July 8, 2015 3:10 p.m.
Vinyl avalanche!
Perils o' vinyl hoarding, I once tried to move my 4000-album collection and broke the axle of the rental truck.— June 25, 2015 6:01 p.m.
Popsicle punk
Update: Contrary to Steve Poltz's "one night only" post about the Rugburns reunion at Bar Pink on Tuesday the 23rd, they're playing at Java Joes on the 24th (with Jose Sinatra, who's on his "farewell" tour) and on the 25th (with Jeff Berkley), according to Java's booker, who posted both shows on the Reader site yesterday. The Bar Pink website still only shows their regular Tiki Tuesday event on the 23rd, so it's anybody's guess whether the 'Burns will really show up there too ----— June 17, 2015 6:45 p.m.
John Lennon's guitar found in San Diego
Followup report at http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/jun/17/bl…— June 17, 2015 5:36 p.m.
The Press War
Was just going to browse this, but found it too riveting to stop until I got to the end - fascinating tales of one of our city's early press wars. I chuckled out loud at nearly every one of Foltz's witty - and increasingly acerbic - quotes, especially this from her farewell column in the Bee, with its one-fingered "salute" to her corrupted competitors in the paper news biz: “The editor who would avoid clashing with the opinions of others must write platitudes merely...we did not care to enter a field already so admirably filled.”— June 10, 2015 7:23 p.m.
My LaserDisc collection numbered exactly one
Bought my first Beta machine in 1984 - first tapes, The Beatles: Let It Be and Easy Rider. Didn't downgrade to inferior VHS until over 10 years later, after filling several hundred beta tapes that I haven't been able to play in a working machine for 20 years now. Held out on DVDs until 2004, when I bought a copy of Pink Floyd: The Wall at the same time as the machine. I still have a dew dozen laserdiscs I bought at a yard sale that I've never had a machine to play. I just last month started finally duping my most rare VHS gems to DVD, including almost 200 hours of the old USA TV cult program Night Flight. Soon, I'm buying a refurbished beta player, so I can start duping the best of those old '80s tapes to DVD. Still never downloaded a movie or watched one on a computer, other than a couple of YouTube rarities unavailable elsewhere. And I kinda want a Laserdisc player, to play those yard sale goodies. I seem to be working my way thru movie tech backwards!— June 10, 2015 1:42 p.m.
John Lennon's guitar found in San Diego
Interesting theories floating around online about how the Beatles guitar may have landed in San Diego. People are already tracking the tour histories of the next few bands who played the same overseas venue as the Beatles, just after the guitar went missing (accidentally left backstage by Mal Evans), which seems an excellent way to find a band that MAY have gone to San Diego shortly after that. Tho the guitar may have instead stayed overseas for years or decades, it does seem possible that whoever found it KNEW it was "hot," even if they didn't know whose guitar it was, and may have sold it off on one of their next tour stops...in San Diego....— June 9, 2015 3:35 p.m.
Listen, the All-Star Game's here next year. You guys better clean up East Village
Great writeup on how East Village is rushing from soup kitchen to skyscraper, Dryw! I lived on 12th and Island in the late 70s thru early 80s and have fond memories of that Bohemian Bakery that Navarra mentions, it was just outside my window at the old Palms Hotel flophouse, and many of us practically lived off the day old throwaways. Everyone there was pretty poor. The closest thing to a supermarket was the Popular Market on 12th and Broadway, tho there were plenty of tiny mom-and-pop markets that came and went within any storefront big enough for a vat of pinto beans and a refrigerator. Besides the multiple adult education centers mentioned in the article, there were also something like seven thrift stores within five square blocks, including gigantic half-block Amvets and Salvation Army shops almost side by side along 12th. Didn't cost more than a few bucks to fully clothe and furnish our lives, most of which were spent pretty close to home. Back then, long before we could have imagined a trolley line running in front of the Palms, there was a detox center across the street that doubled as surreal street theater for those of us without a TV and time to soak in the panoramic views from atop the Hotel roof (a sprawling tarpaper oasis for homeless squatters willing to dare the rusty fire escape ladders for a view that went from Golden Hill to Coronado). On the other side of the Bohemian Bakery was a dive-of-the-damned bar called Beasley's, where the disposition of the neighborhood quickly went from mildly disreputable to decidedly felonious. That said, there were also rural touches in East Village, as well as the occasional Victorian home. There was a big gingerbread-trim house on 13th and Island nearly overgrown with shrubbery where roosters went off each morning and thousands of noisy chirping birds roosted in the palm trees surrounding the property, creating a Hitchcockian cacophony that could nearly deafen passersby at sunrise and sunset. A quirky neighborhood, then and now - thanks for the excellent report on it! http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2015/j…— June 8, 2015 2:21 p.m.