What could be better than hearing “Good Vibrations” on a hot summer night in America’s premier outdoor concert venue? Hearing “California Girls” for the very first time? “I Get Around” hooked me. I was an avid bowler. I lived to knock down the pins. I was in a league on Saturday and every Friday Mr. […]

They screamed every time Tana Mongeau spoke. Do you know who that is? I don’t either. The woman who runs Beautycon is a force of nature. I met Moj Mahdara at the Atom Factory, Troy Carter’s joint, it’s always the same people, investing in the new and different which you’d expect to be run by […]

This is a bad film and a good one too. It’s bad because the script is hackneyed, too busy with exposition, often unbelievable and certainly unnatural. But it’s good because it illuminates the insecurity of an artist. The most sensitive amongst us create the greatest work, they illuminate our warts, the human condition, that’s why […]

Pigs. That’s what we called the cops in the sixties, before Nixon got elected on a law and order platform, blacks were incarcerated in unprecedented numbers and whites rallied around law enforcement. Oh, what a long strange trip it’s been. Life surprises you. It’s a good reason to keep on keepin’ on. If you’d told […]