Friday, July 17

“˜Ship’ docks at UCLA

It would prove impossible to stereotypically categorize a performance by the company Pappa Tarahumara. Its performances could easily fall under the genres of dance, opera, song or abstract art. Read more...


Blast from the past

A little bit of the ’80s still survives today: People wear big hoop earrings, off-the-shoulder T-shirts and slip-on shoes. Bands like Franz Ferdinand often have an ’80s New Wave sensibility. Read more...


Indie inc.

In popular culture, terms are tossed around like musicians bouncing from one town to the next in an effort to get their voices heard. When something new appears, the public often feels a need to assign a label to it to come to terms with something it can’t immediately explain. Read more...


Guest fiction: Loneliness

I. in my mist-swathed dreams, i am driving, blindfolded by horizontal gravity to the glow of my sputnik’s disparate love and though i am pulled headlong ““ i feel at once the swarming rushes of air falling towards the surface, abandoning me, leaving me behind. Read more...


Guest fiction: Mourning

I. pre-morning, a prologue the bag in my hand splatters, the bottle breaks. I wait for the familiar aroma of whiskey to wind its way up, rise and I know that it will lie there, an irregular pool, hoping never to be mopped. Read more...



“˜Whatever’ goes by the wayside

Some still think learning to “play the game” is that sad day we put on the suit and mind our p’s and q’s to the corporate guy whose house we used to toilet paper in our idealistic and spirited teens. Read more...