FRANK BROWNING
- May 31, 2018
- 6 min
Paris, May '68: You Say It Was a Revolution?
The pervasive posters, video-docs, street banners and public seminars in France are clear signs that millions want to remember 1968. But...
Clay Coppedge
- May 31, 2018
- 8 min
Fool’s Gold
My own experience verifies what cops have told me — that 10 percent of the criminal population commits 90 percent of all the crimes they...
Bill Bentley
- May 30, 2018
- 2 min
Bentley's Bandstand / More Haiku Reviews
With so many reissues falling from the sky, it's time to throw a batch together and try the haiku review spin on them. Whoever said...
Bob Brown
- May 16, 2018
- 36 min
U Pull — We Pull
Smitty’s Salvage 15 Acres Used Parts Foreign and Domestic We Pay Cash for Cars U Pull — We Pull Call 313 - JUNK Depictions of engine...
George Rains
- May 15, 2018
- 9 min
Ft. Worth Underground
Part 3 of 'Cellar Dweller' The original Cellar was a raunchy coffee house in a refurbished basement on Houston Street in downtown Fort...
Michael Ventura
- May 14, 2018
- 9 min
Ventura at 4am / March 24 2018: History As This Afternoon
Note: My first draft was written on the afternoon and early evening of March 24th. Pneumonia intervened. The piece was completed in May....
Bill Bentley
- May 9, 2018
- 10 min
Bentley's Bandstand / May 2018
Ry Cooder, The Prodigal Son. When Ry Cooder decides to rear back and hit one completely out of the park, it is always a sight to hear....
Frank Browning
- May 8, 2018
- 4 min
Gold: Power, Beauty and Regret
If you’re aiming for Gold (and at some level who isn’t?), go to the Port of Marseille, France’s rough and tough Mediterranean port town. ...
George Rains
- May 7, 2018
- 5 min
Step Away From the Duck
Part 2 of Cellar Dweller It was Pat Kirkwood’s idea that we should all get arrested for roasting ducks at the City Park Duck Pond in Fort...
Jon Carroll / joncarrollprose.com / Photos Tracy
- May 3, 2018
- 3 min
Jon Carroll / High Desert Gothic I: Artifacts
It all started with a mistake. In the 70s, when we lived in Los Angeles and worked against deadline, we often spent weekends at Joshua...
Elliott Negin
- May 3, 2018
- 6 min
EPA Chief Pruitt Even Violates His Own Principles
With Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s job now hanging in the balance, it is a good time to recall that, just...
George Rains
- May 2, 2018
- 8 min
Cellar Dweller, Part One
First of Three Parts The Cellar began as an eccentric little coffee house in a dank, dark basement underneath Houston Street in downtown...
