When it's the opening day of the Orange County Fair, you have plenty of time in traffic — an hour, in fact, just to get from Santa Ana to the fairgrounds — to realize just how poorly the 55 is designed. Immediately after some major road feeds into it, forcing a mass slowing as a new torrent of cars merges inward, yet another major road feeds into it, and just as soon as that's integrated, another still. Even when the freeway's just about to end, there are still major roads feeding in, and if
It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again.
BILLY JOEL
The Stranger
(Columbia/Legacy)
As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" and "Anthony's Song (Movin' Out)" remain priceless snapshots of Annie Hall-era NYC, the title track bares real teeth, and the Kenny Chesney fave "Only the Good Die Young" -
Don't be alarmed folks. Despite his crazed outward demeanor on stage, or in the photo to your left, Dusty Angel is really just a nice, approachable guy. In fact, if you are a musician and happen to peddle your sonic wares in the belly of Downtown Long Beach, then chances are you actually have approached him, or been approached by him. Aside from fronting the fireball of eclectic energy known as the Have Nots, Angel is also a show promoter for the Blue Cafe. But aside from that, his rhyme s
Hey, don't blame me. It's not my fault I've got that Willie Nelson song stuck in my head. Like waking up and having to pee, I almost have to.
You see, I'm hitting the road for about a week. Leaving tomorrow morning. First stop Portland.
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Mosca Photography
Lots of good stuff comes out of Portland. You got your Voodoo Doughnut, your
Sweetpea Baking Company, your Hillstomp and your bike-friendly
streets (notice no mention of the Trail Blazers--Go Lakers!). Well, add another item to Portland's awesome list
because the Quick & Easy Boys, a trio from Rose City
is hitting the Gypsy Lounge tomorrow night for a funk/punk blast of spaced out
jams, a sound self-described as "honkadelic."The group - guitarist/singer Jimmy Russell, b
