Falling James

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THEY MIGHT NOT BE RAFFI

Two Johns: The witty, hyper-caffeinated pop duo John Linnell & John Flansburgh plan two trans-generational sets, with an afternoon family-themed show (3 p.m.) d...
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Bob Dylan at the Palladium, Night Three: Hollywood Swinging

Bob Dylan & His Band at the Hollywood Palladium, Thursday, October 15 Click here to read Falling James' review of night #1 of Dylan's three shows at the Palladium. Click here to read his review of the second night. After the unexpectedly smooth vocal performances and the many sublime moments......
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Bob Dylan at the Palladium, Night Two (Collect Them All!)

Click here to read Falling James' review of Dylan's first of three shows at the Palladium and click here for his review of night three. Like a snowflake, each Bob Dylan concert is special. No two are alike, in part because he changes the set list at every show. At......
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Bob Dylan at the Palladium, Night One: A Change is Gonna Come

Click here to read Falling James' review of Dylan's second of three shows at the Palladium and click here for his review of night three. "For years, they had me locked in a cage/Then they threw me onto the stage," Bob Dylan once sang/confessed/bragged/warned. "Some things just last longer than......
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BEST WHERE’S JOHNNY

Who's buried at Grant's tomb? That's a tough one, and for punk rockers a similar trivia question/existential riddle might be: Which member of the Ra...
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WELCOME BAT, MANNY!

Revelations and allegations of the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs have sullied the reputations of such Major League Baseball stars as Mar...
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LYRIC GAL

Before Florida native Exene Cervenka reinvented herself in Los Angeles as a wild-eyed singer and punk-country-folk priestess with such bands as X, the Knitters ...
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Wonder Woman

This "syncopated woman" is an iconic poet-mystic-activist-Buddhist-feminist-teacher who possesses the uncanny (and magical) ability to "Write down the noun'...
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Sympathy for the Devils

There have been a lot of biographies about the Rolling Stones, but most skip over the '80s and '90s in favor of the band's heyday in the '60s an...
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Life After a Death Sentence

Vanessa Place is just a wee bit more ambitious than most local writers/dreamers/soothsayers. Her first novel, Dies: A Sentence (2005, Les Figues Press), used th...