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							  Bob Dylan's 16-year-old grandson, Pablo Dylan, just dropped  10 Minutes , his first rap mixtape.
							  The giant monkey of Danville was my symbol, back then, of the fin-de-siècle nadir in media fluffery, thankfully obsolesced in one grim morning.
							  As I watched Caesar (Andy Serkis), the übermonkey, and his primate minions break free of their human chains en route to conquering the world, I thought:  1)  there are a lot of apes in San Francisco,  2)  there aren't a lot of cops, and  3)  this movie was better before the CGI took over.
							  It's a hot, sticky July afternoon and I'm riding shotgun in Uncle Bob's pick-up truck. We've just spent the past couple hours walking off-trail through the woods, and we're doing much better than I had expected.
							  Some places, no matter how good, manage to fly under the radar. And the recent trend of restaurateurs opening a pizza place, establishing a reputation as a lower-priced, "On the Cheap" joint, and then upscaling into a full-tilt sit-down spot (see: Nebo), has made things even trickier.
 
				
					
					
							
							  Devil Makes Three, Gillian Welch, and Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three perform at the  Newport Folk Festival  on July 30, 2011.
							  The giant monkey of Danville was my symbol, back then, of the fin-de-siècle nadir in media fluffery, thankfully obsolesced in one grim morning.
							  Five years ago this week the Portland Phoenix published an exposé of the Maine Turnpike Authority executives' lavish lifestyle.
							  As I walked down the corridors of the Ralph Owen Brewster Hospice for Decaying Political Ideals, there were no indications of despair, pain, or misery.
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