Noteworthy

AH THOSE CRUEL WORDS Bad enough when you go to a website to get details or even buy tickets for...

A TRULY LEGENDARY NIGHTCLUB Where to begin? Not only a Valley or an LA icon, it was known nationally and...

SAMOHI IS 127… But, you’re going to build a high school before you organize a philharmonic orchestra. (Our own Santa...

RIP BIG JAY MCNEELY Passed away Monday at 91, a legendary LA horn honker who helped turn R&B into R&R,...

YOU DON’T LIVE IN ALBUQUERQUE? For the music. It is an amazing place for other reasons, great natural beauty. But...

HESITATION BLUES I sure wish I had my original Grunt Records promotional Hot Tuna t-shirt. Great shirt from a great...

REST UP FOR SUNDAY It’s Labor Day weekend (when no one labors), the last gasp of summer! By the calendar,...

RANDY NEWMAN, YOU SLIMY LITTLE CRIMINAL  Last Thursday I wrote nice things about you. I take it all back. In...

Y’ALL ARE MISSING GOOD STUFF At the Ruskin, the Ruskin Group Theatre at the airport. All you folks who just...

WILLIE’S BEAT UP OLD GUITAR Has a mystical connection to him. Decades ago I noticed that big gape in it...