Archive for 2014/05


News Roundup

MACKLEMORE DRESSES UP AS OFFENSIVE JEWISH CARICATURE AT SECRET SHOW Macklemore Dresses Up As Offensive Jewish Caricature At Secret Show Anti-Semitism is in our rearview mirror just like racism…not. Anti-Semitism is rooted in ignorance. Stereotypes are reinforced as those perpetrating the myths have little to no contact with Jews. Macklemore is lauded at the Grammys […]

The Pickles

We went to Brent’s Deli. I needed to feel something. Others take drugs, drink alcohol, I eat. And since I didn’t get my pastrami sandwich on my birthday, and since Langer’s is no longer open at night, we journeyed out to Brent’s. Which is in Northridge, the epitome of the suburbs. In a strip center. […]

Journey At The Hollywood Bowl

They played my favorite song… Those crazy nights, I do remember in my youth I do recall, those were the best times, most of all Driving around in my car, looking for action, back when you had to leave your house to connect, before the Internet wired us all and blew a giant hole in […]

Rhinofy-Roxy Music Primer

IF THERE IS SOMETHING I was fingering the albums at Virgin Records in Notting Hill Gate long before everybody knew who Richard Branson was, a year and a half before “Tubular Bells,” and I heard this over the in-store stereo and bought it. Roxy Music was the band being hyped in the weekly music newspapers, […]