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...
George Rains
- Oct 18, 2018
- 14 min
Life by the Beat / Stories from the Road, Vol. 1
George Rains has had a life fuller than most, as exemplified both by his great musical reputation and by the following stories, each told...
Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
- Oct 18, 2018
- 6 min
Ventura at 4am / The Politics Of Helplessness – Part II
They strewed white flowers of cowardice, as they passed… ~ Anne Spencer If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced...
David Talbot
- Oct 16, 2018
- 3 min
Talbot / San Francisco's Moral Failure
Three cheers -- hell, FOUR cheers -- for Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff for throwing his huge corporate and personal weight behind Prop. C,...
Peter Chapa
- Oct 16, 2018
- 12 min
El Casino
Peter Chapa wrote this childhood reminiscence of Hebbronville’s El Casino Theatre in 1973 El Casino was the Mexican cine or “el mono,” as...
Bill Bentley
- Oct 8, 2018
- 10 min
Bentley's Bandstand / October 2018
Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles, Love's Middle Name. The only way to enter the rock & roll fray, no matter what age you start, is to...
Michael Ventura
- Sep 21, 2018
- 7 min
The Politics of Helplessness - Part 1
Art/Photo: Dan Hubig © 2018 This essay begins with poetry by Tadeusz Rozewicz (1921-2014). For most Americans, he needs an...