Star Trek: The Continuing Mission - Interview with Patrick McCray
Sith Apprentice co-star on the new internet Trek series
STAR TREK: The Continuing Mission “I don't know how long the story will last,” emailed Patrick McCray awhile back, “but the show on which I'm a producer, STAR TREK: THE CONTINUING MISSION, is a top story on the entertainment …
LOCAL JOCK SAYS HE WAS STALKED - A REAL LIFE "PLAY MISTY FOR ME"?
The dark side of audiological obsession formed the basis of the 1971 Clint Eastwood thriller "Play Misty For Me" (the actor's directorial debut). Portraying a jazz radio DJ for station KRML in Carmel California, Eastwood's character finds his life upended by a high-strung female fan who repeatedly calls his show to request her favorite song...
LOCAL JOCK SAYS HE WAS STALKED - A REAL LIFE "PLAY MISTY FOR ME"? With help from fellow Rock ‘N’ Roll Comics writer Spike Steffenhagen, I browsed a stack of local music-related lawsuit files and found a bunch of fascinating …
THE OB RANGER RIDES AGAIN: RETURN OF A ‘70S COUNTERCULTURE HERO
“We were going after the progressive rock or the album rock crowd,” says radio DJ and programming vet Gary Allyn about his early seventies on-air gig in San Diego.
THE OB RANGER RIDES AGAIN: RETURN OF A ‘70S COUNTERCULTURE HERO “We were going after the progressive rock or the album rock crowd,” says radio DJ and programming vet Gary Allyn about his early seventies on-air gig in San Diego. …
JIM McINNES: THE LAST DJ
"There goes the last DJ/who plays what he wants to play/and says what he wants to say/there goes your freedom of choice/there goes the last human voice/there goes the last DJ" -- lyrics from "The Last DJ," by Tom Petty
JIM McINNES: THE LAST DJ "There goes the last DJ/who plays what he wants to play/and says what he wants to say/there goes your freedom of choice/there goes the last human voice/there goes the last DJ" -- lyrics from "The …
WHERE’S THE READER’S HIP-HOP COVERAGE? Plus 10 songs that define San Diego hip-hop
Also, we're to blame for Boy Shakira on America's Got Talent
WHERE’S THE READER’S HIP-HOP COVERAGE? We get a lot of emails asking this, and (hopefully) readers have noticed increased coverage throughout the music section, including Blurt, Lists, Of Note, and Club Crawler. It wasn’t that we avoided hip-hop before – …
CREEPY OLD GUY GOES TO A RAVE, plus Mike Stax profile
Okay, I know chances are good that my sideburns are older than a lotta people reading this blog.
CREEPY OLD GUY GOES TO A RAVE Okay, I know chances are good that my sideburns are older than a lotta people reading this blog. I’m old. How old AM I? I'm old enough to have… a) …bought Beatles records …
RACIST ROCK: DO THE WHITE THING
A history of SoCal racist rock
RACIST ROCK: DO THE WHITE THING "Throughout history, music has been used to recruit and unify ultra-right movements. A lot of people think the Third Reich couldn’t have happened without Wagner. For Skinheads, who follow the concept of leaderless resistance, …
Goths For Jesus: Pastor Dave’s Christian Goths
GOTHS FOR JESUS: PASTOR DAVE’S CHRISTIAN GOTHS "The Lord said...'Stretch your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread...darkness that can be felt.'" Exodus 10:21 Old school “goth” can be traced back to the third and fourth centuries, when …
HELLO SATAN: DARK METAL IN SAN DIEGO, plus Death Metal History Comic
HELLO SATAN: DARK METAL IN SAN DIEGO "Some rock and roll groups stand in a circle and drink cups of blood. Some get on their knees and pray to the devil. Rock and roll hypnotizes us and controls our senses." …
Underage Swing Dancers Battle Local Law
UNDERAGE SWING DANCERS BATTLE LOCAL LAW The San Diego Municipal code defines a “teenage dance” as “any event open to the public that allows dancing by teenagers.” A teenager is “any person who is at least fourteen or more years …