Tag: Jan 05 2017 issue
ICUMI (In case you missed it)
Howdy neighbor
Finding a new house, in a new city, while trying to manage a new job can be a bitch. Not to mention the...
A brief history of the Right’s hate: from 1885 to Trump
Donald Trump is no principled conservative. His shifting attitudes on abortion and same-sex marriage have a whiff of opportunism. He called for double the...
The rewards of risk
In 2008 in his Los Angeles home, a man named Dave Freeman fell, hit his head and died. This wouldn’t have been big news,...
Age is just a number
As the Drive-By Truckers continue their touring cycle this winter behind their new release American Band — one of their best, most lyrically provocative...
Is marijuana the golden crop of the Golden State?
The Orange County Register, not one of the liberal trumpets in the mainstream media orchestra, recently took it upon itself to estimate the value...
The Donald is about to enter the oil patch
Prediction: If you want to know where the Trump administration is headed, start by reviewing what’s been going on in the oil patch for...
Koch brothers out to conquer the countryside
It’s easy to become mesmerized by The Donald Show in this year’s political circus, but it’s time for progressives to focus on the outer...
Letters: 1/5/17
Keep it up
Thanks for the terrific article written by Zach Evens on the exhibit Weathering Climate: Art, Science, and Sustainability at NCAR in the...
What happens at great bars
A great bar has a great history. This isn’t conjecture, just a simple matter of fact. Think: McSorely’s of New York, The Union Oyster...
Tour de brew: BRU handbuilt ales & eats
The story of America is the story of rebels, from the revolutionaries who conceived this nation out of the bones of the Enlightenment to...
Astrology: 1/5/17
ARIES
March 21-April 19: Light, electricity, and magnetism are different expressions of a single phenomenon. Scottish scientist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was the...
In this theater I call my soul
My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else. —Martin Scorsese
It all goes back to Mean Streets: “You don’t make up...
