Archive for July 16th, 2007

reverb: music from los angeles & beyond

I love post-rock as much as the next fellow. Explosions in the Sky, Mono, Red Sparowes… they’re all great. But sometimes, I can’t help but feel like there’s something the genre is kinda missing. It needs some soul, some funk. There’s no good reason a tune can’t be epic and still groove. Fortunately, Maserati agrees [...]

Notes from desegregation county

schoolhouse.jpgGetting rejected by your dream school is a small price to pay for larger racial equality. Or maybe not.

Photo: GOP on Election Day
Slideshow: Nov. 5 Newspapers
Photo: Election Day in LA