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Whether we’re talking about canvas, skin, glass or public property, the need to create distinctive and visually arresting art knows no bounds. From the streets to the gallery, inspired by DIY music or pop culture—the visionaries we profile for our first Art Issue stimulate our minds [...]
Continue reading...Strictly Roots
2. September 2010
Try to find a publicity photo on their official website or MySpace—you can’t. Even live performance videos are scarce. For the most part, the liner notes of their records—up to six as of 2010’s 10 Deadly Shots, Vol. 1, released by New York City-based label ROIR—omit personnel [...]
Continue reading...Devin Troy Strother Art Show
2. September 2010
Recent Pasadena Art Center College of Design graduate Devin Troy Strother has been scooped up by the Richard Heller Gallery, which is showing his work both in a group exhibit in New York and in a solo show at Bergamont Station—and it’s no wonder. One look at Strother’s vibrant fusions of acrylic, cut paper, ink, [...]
Continue reading...KROQ Epicenter Twenty Ten
2. September 2010
The World Famous KROQ—which has been sporting that title for at least 30 years mostly because Rodney Bingenheimer made it possible and Lisa May makes it sexy—is unleashing a two-day hardcore summer rock fest featuring some classic axe-strummers and beat boxers: fawn all over KISS when they crank up “Rock and Roll All Night” and [...]
Continue reading...HempCon 2010 Medical Marijuana Show
2. September 2010
One of the largest medical marijuana events this year, HempCon rallies a host of vendors, musicians and professionals and offers exhibits for dispensaries, collectives, caregivers, evaluation services, legal services, educational institutes, equipment, accessories and much more. Striving to educate and offer the latest info to the supportive masses, the show also offers seminars and presentations [...]
Continue reading...Hempstalk 2010
2. September 2010
The uber-green Pacific Northwest kicks off its herbstravaganza this month with Hempstalk 2010—a drug- and alcohol-free weekend that aims to educate and celebrate. Now in its fifth year, the Portland, Oregon-based festival continues to promote the decriminalization of marijuana for both medical and recreational use, and founder and director Paul Stanford makes no hay about [...]
Continue reading...Liner Notes
2. September 2010
By Hans Fink In an unprecedented move of self-importance, famed musician and producer WYCLEF JEAN announced on Larry King Live that he intends to submit his candidacy for Haiti’s presidential election in November. Essentially insinuating that he is to the Haitians as Moses was to the ancient Israelites, the Haiti-born musician immigrated to the U.S. when [...]
Continue reading...Entertainment Reviews
2. September 2010
CD REVIEW Lee Perry Revelation Label: Megawave/MVD Audio Toeing a fine line between sage sonic chops and irie eccentricity is a game Lee Scratch Perry has played for decades. Surfacing again with his latest full-length, Revelation, Jamaica’s legendary dub maverick christens echo-drenched beats with Rastafarian symbolism. Not to mention a myriad of ingredients that range from galactic laser zaps, [...]
Continue reading...Burning Man
5. August 2010
Now in its 24th year, Burning Man’s pagan-loving, grandiose summer solstice affair between humans and nature once again rises from the ash of Black Rock. First officially held in San Francisco back in 1986 as an experiment in community, radical self-expression and radical self-reliance, BM has continued along those ideological lines, expanding over the years [...]
Continue reading...Seattle Hempfest
5. August 2010
The world’s largest annual gathering of folks advocating the repeal of marijuana prohibition laws launches its annual two-day event this month in Seattle—a free, informative happening filled with exceptional musicians, fab food and enough hemp merchandise to fill all your organic needs. Even though the promoters lost their traditional third day of the gathering after [...]
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