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Pitchers N’ Platters – Sauce
Pitchers N’ Platters Local Food, Spirits, & Music Venues Sauce Spirits & Soundbar Sauce. The word alone is enough to make a food lover yearn for a delicious meal. It sets the senses on high alert and the imagination afire. To name your restaurant Sauce is brilliant, enticing and sets the expectations high when you serve Italian food. Sauce [...]
Chris Mars – An Intimate Portrait Of The Artist
Behind The Canvas Chris Mars An Intimate Portrait Of The Artist by:Tom Hallett “As a youngster,” recalls former Replacements’ drummer-turned-painter Chris Mars in a recent interview with ‘Round The Dial Magazine, “...many things inspired me in a pure, visual sense... the letter “P” of our World Book encyclopedia set - I [...]
Electric Tombstone
This is the real deal. Straight from the bowels of hell (and the downstairs studio of the carriage house boasts such a name). No chaser. Just the BLOOD SHOT. I was there....in the beginning....Howlin’ Andy Hound’s last breath before their transformation....Back when Andy was doing the "Thee Kiss And Tells" thing, and playing keyboards for [...]
Classic Rock Of The Future – Coheed And Cambria
Nerds Rock. No, really. Do you remember Rush? Of course you do. Everybody remembers Rush. That mass obscurity is part of their whole legend. This was music that nerds listened to. The weird sounds, that strangely high voice, the shifting time signatures and impossible-to-follow, vocab-heavy lyrics; it’s not for everybody. But in 2009’s [...]
R.O.X.A.N.N.E.
Of all the unimportant holidays, Valentines Day is surely the most important. Put up against Secretaries Day, Valentines Day is like a pillowcase filled with bricks against a hair net filled with barf. Compared to Valentines Day, Grandparents Day IS barf. Flag Day? Flag Day is like barf and Valentines Day eats the barf. Columbus Day, Arbor [...]
Matthew Ryan – Lessons In Humanity: Talking Hope and Advocacy
“Humility is a good thing and sadly we tend to usually only have humility through struggle. I don’t know what that says about the human psyche. Maybe I’ve gotten delusional in my older age. That’s called survival, I think.” - Matthew Ryan Back some time in the early 1990’s, in an America suffering the hangover of ‘80s excess, [...]
Guitar Town
When I first started playing and trying to cop tones, the sound most of my peers and I thought was the best was Eddie Van Halen’s on their first album, Van Halen I. It had outrageously high gain, yet sounded almost pretty with its juiciness. I also dug the tones of John Sykes, with his beefy tone with lots of fuzzy sizzle on top, and the first [...]
Reel Kool – The Princess And The Frog
REEL KOOL FILM REVIEWS By: Jesse Sawyer The Princess and the Frog (2009, dirs. Ron Clements and John Musker) I haven’t seen a mainstream two-dimensional animated film since... since... Well, to be honest, I can’t recall the last one. Disney’s last 2-D release was “The Emperor’s New Groove,” which I missed, and since then the [...]
Sightlines – Tim O’Reagan & Friends
Tim O’ Reagan & Friends The 318 Cafe’ In Excelsior Saturday, 12/12/09 by Tom Hallett photos by Jay Smiley Two fellow Jayhawks, Soul Asylum co-founder/ guitarist Dan Murphy, and a couple of like-minded young ‘uns gathered ‘round ‘Hawks drummer/singer/songwriter Tim O’Reagan on a chilly mid-December evening recently to lend their [...]
