John Albert

Another oil-rich country suffering under despotic rule is primed for regime change as early as next month. I happened to meet the would-be king of Equatorial Guinea at Bob’s Big Boy for coffee. I had initially thought him just another deluded soul with some half-baked plan, not at all uncommon......

Before I died, I was the drummer in Bad Religion. That was 15 years ago. Both of us are doing much better these days. I found out about my supposed demise when I met the band in the small Hollywood studio where they were recording their latest album, The Process......

Photo by Ted Soqui IT'S 107 DEGREES AND I'M STANDING ON THE DYING grass of a San Fernando Valley baseball field. The uniform I'm wearing isn't helping the situation. It's made of some nonorganic semistretchy material that seems to both absorb and seal in the summer heat, turning me into......