James BigBoy Medlin
- Dec 24, 2018
- 2 min
WHY NOT? / Breaking News
It’s been hard to keep up with the fast-breaking stories at year’s end. I may have confused a few events, but here’s a capsule review....
David Talbot
- Dec 22, 2018
- 2 min
Talbot / War Liberals
Before I run off and start swilling the egg nog, just one more comment from me about the war liberals who are heaping praise on their...
Bill Bentley
- Dec 22, 2018
- 11 min
Bentley's Bandstand / December 2018
The Beatles. Always known as "The White Album," The Beatles 1968 double-disc set stopped a lot of listeners in their tracks when it was...
James BigBoy Medlin / Art Dan Hubig
- Dec 20, 2018
- 8 min
WHY NOT? / The Brain Trust (Early Days)
On an unseasonably warm (is warm ever “unseasonable” any more?) day in mid-October 2015, Travis Redfish headed North in his orange 1970...
Bill Bentley
- Dec 18, 2018
- 8 min
Bentley's Bandstand / November 2018
Bottle Rockets, Bit Logic. First thing's first: the song "Maybe Tomorrow" on the new Bottle Rockets album is so good, it's likely their...
Elliott Negin / Art: Dan Hubig © 2018
- Dec 9, 2018
- 9 min
Will Koch Pull the Plug on Electric Cars?
When multibillionaire industrialist Charles Koch perceives a potential threat to his fossil fuel empire, he doesn’t mess around. To...
Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
- Dec 4, 2018
- 8 min
No Hiding Place - An Election Notebook
There’s no hiding place down here — traditional Gospel song November 3 I look up at a clock: In more or less eighty hours the polls will...