Posted November 12, 2013in Rap Sheet
Posted November 06, 2013in Film Review
Under Bixby Bridge
“Big Sur” 2 stars Rated R 74 minutes Drama Starring: Jean-Marc Barr, Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas Adapting Jack Kerouac’s late career novel “Big Sur” (1962) proves an awkward challenge for director-screenwriter Michael Polish. That isn’t to say that the film is a complete failure, but it is disappointing. Nonetheless, it
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Posted November 06, 2013in The Sound
The truth about Pink
Whenever I see Pink, it reminds me of how much people like to hate Taylor Swift. Pink (or P!NK, if you’re nasty) and Swift have both made pretty decent livings doing basically the same thing: singing about crappy relationships. But then the paths diverge. While Pink remains almost unassailably adored,
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Posted November 06, 2013in Locker Room
Extend disc golf season with a glowing competition
The metallic sound of hitting the links is like music in a quiet park on a brisk autumn day for a few passionate players This isn’t your grandfather’s neatly manicured golf course. This is where the woods meets the meadow. This is disc golf. To get the obvious out of
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Posted November 06, 2013in Sound Check
Nest of Snakes “Molt” Independent Even if you’ve never heard Nest of Snakes before, with track titles like “Wall of Tusks” and “Demon’s Chair,” you have a good idea what you’re getting into. And, while the ground the band is treading may not be new or particularly inventive, there’s enough
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Posted November 06, 2013in Political Mercury
‘If you aren’t already related to a Latino…’
One in six Americans is Latino. The ethnic group is the fastest-growing in the nation. More than half of all babies born in the United States are minorities — and the average age of a Latino is 27.6. According to 2012 U.S. Census figures, Latinos are now the largest minority
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Posted November 06, 2013in Belly Up To...
G. Mig’s, a place veterans can call their own
When a bar has been around for as long as three generations can remember, people come to know it for a lot of things depending on their age or tastes. A lot of people talk about what it was, as the name may change over the years, or they talk
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Posted November 06, 2013in Duffy
Posted November 06, 2013in Food Dude
Dinner is the new lunch at Le Jardin
At the turn of this decade, lunch was the new dinner. Flarah’s had just moved its lunch business into a larger spot in Beaverdale and opened the first of two downtown outlets. Proof was the hottest new café in town with weekday lunches and a single evening service. Flour became
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Posted November 06, 2013in Book Review
True crime fans will love ‘Quiet Dell’
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books By Jayne Anne Phillips Scribner Pub. date: Oct. 15 $28 464 pp. Award-winning fiction writer Jayne Anne Phillips grew up in West Virginia haunted by her mother’s stories of the gruesome 1931 murders of at least two women and three children in nearby Quiet Dell. In
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