Festival Drug Raid Teaches Children Important Lesson
An August 1 drug raid during the Church of Universal Love and Music‘s Funk Fest resulted in the arrests of 23 people and the seizure of marijuana, hash brownies, hallucinogenic mushrooms, LSD, nitrous oxide, other prohibited substances, and drug paraphernalia. Dumpstaphunk was bringing the dirty funk on the day police swarmed the festival grounds in Bullskin Township, Pennsylvania….
Disco Biscuits’ Marc Brownstein On Live-Music Crisis
Disco Biscuits bassist (and HeadCount co-founder) Marc Brownstein weighs in on the status of the concert business – imploding or not? – in a letter forwarded to email subscribers to Bob Lefsetz’s popular music-industry blog, The Lefsetz Letter. Brownstein says advance Bisco sales are down while day-of-show sales are way up, because ticket buyers don’t…
New Radiohead Single Celebrates Pacifist WWI Vet Harry Patch
Radiohead’s new single, “Harry Patch (In Memory Of)” was written in honor of the United Kingdom’s final veteran of World War I, who died in July at the age of 111. As Thom Yorke explains on the band’s website, where it can be downloaded, the stately and somber tune reflects Patch’s pacifist beliefs. Proceeds from…
Alumna Blues
According to CNN, a recent IT graduate of New York’s Monroe College is suing the institution for $72,000 – her entire tuition plus $2,000 – because, she claims, Monroe’s “Office of Career Advancement did not help me with a full-time job placement. I am also suing them because of the stress I have been going…
Woodstock Politics
David Fricke bemoans the lack of politics at the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair in his Rolling Stone review of Woodstock – 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur’s Farm, a six-CD attempt to document all 32 performances heard during that August weekend, in the order in which they were presented: That exchange [when Who…
Art, Music, Fans Connect At Red Rocks Mock Show
Last Saturday at a hotel six miles from Red Rocks Amphitheatre, where Phish was playing for four nights, more than 20 artists and hundreds of art lovers and collectors gathered for Mock Show, a poster and art showcase-marketplace. Held in the Sheraton Denver West Hotel’s ballroom, the Mock Show was an art lovers dream that…
Twelve Mexico Murders, Thirty-Four Drug Cartel Arrests
After he was elected president of Mexico in 2006, Felipe Calderon declared his own war on drugs, with an emphasis on battling drug cartels. There have been more than 10,000 drug-related killings since then, and the cartels don’t seem to be going anywhere. One of the more grisly recent events was the torture and murder…
Town Hall Turmoil
Corporate-funded “tea-party” birther types (a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll shows that 58% of all Republicans are either don’t believe Obama was born in the USA or are undecided on the issue) have codified their intent to disrupt this month’s nationwide town-hall events focusing on health-insurance reform – as when the woman locally known as “Crazy…
‘The Union: The Business Of Getting High’
Enjoy this trailer for The Union: The Business of Getting High, an award-winning documentary about British Columbia’s marijuana trade, the province’s most profitable industry.
Berlin’s War On Luxury Cars
Radical leftists are blowing up luxury cars in Berlin at the rate of one a night, according to this report. The strategy, which resembles an urban version of eco-terrorism, is documented on the Burning Cars of Berlin website, which Google-maps the arson sites and details the car makes involved. Young German anarchists – anti-materialists, anti-imperialists,…