WOXY-FM’s ‘Modern Rock 500’ Countdown Finally Returns in May After 20 Years off the Radio Dial Here’s some great news I got via Facebook where it’s spreading like wildfire—at least within my social graphs. Quotes from and links to reporting are below. Allison Babka this afternoon on citybeat.com: The new iteration of the “97X Modern … Read more
Los Angeles Is a Fantastic Walking City. No, Really. Los Angeles is one of 88 separate but overlapping municipalities in L.A. County. Places we think of as towns (Hollywood) are actually just neighborhoods, while places that sound like neighborhoods are cities (West Hollywood). This is not to be confused with Greater Los Angeles, often called … Read more
An Essay on Brewing, with a View of establishing The Principles of the Art published in 1758 is the first text to recommend the use of the thermometer in a brewery. The author, Michael Combrune, was an ale brewer in the small village of Hempstead just north of London. This work is the first practical … Read more
50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
The Long, Strange Trip of ‘Dark Side of the Moon,’ 50 Years Later Tal Rosenberg in The Ringer: It was the right album at the exact right time. The triumph of Dark Side is the establishment in rock of cosmic identity, how the personal and the universal intersect. It’s an album about the internal experience, … Read more