Frequent hawk sightings (and deer!) Reds games Everybody's Records The Gaslight Cafe The Ohio River Rabbit Hash The Southgate House...

WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT? by Chris Wanstrath & Ric Hickey The orchestral kestrel or the selfish shellfish? The sharp carp or the stout...

Black squirrel on the playset Sadly, this building has been torn down. LOTS of frogs here. Cars & Coffee last Saturday of the month April...

My allowance was 25 cents a week as a kid so it took a month to save up for a 3-pack of Certron C-90 blank cassettes at K-Mart. Calling...

George Cables “Looking For The Light” Muse FX Records 2003 Looking For The Light is the 18th release for pianist, composer and bandleader...

DAY 10 Saturday May 11th 2002 Well, Juarez is just a fucking ghetto. Now I can say that I have been to Mexico. But I would also have to...

"The Rhythms of the 'Roo" originally appeared on CityBeat.com on June 28, 2006. ~rh Some fear and very little loathing at this year's...

In 1999, my father took to his very first home computer word processor and wrote about 30 pages of stories from his earliest memories....

Throwback to November 1984, the month I started working at Record Bar in Tri-County Mall and thus began my career in record stores. Some...

To varying degrees, aren’t we all subject to the inner voice of our ancestors’ hopes and dreams? Does not the young gunslinger set out in...

CHORUS: I'm backlit and I smell like gasoline I'm a sight to see But I can't be seen In a bottomless pit of bullshit I'm somewhere in...

I was a fan of the Red Hot Chili Peppers back then. I saw them many times back in the day. But I went to their show at Bogart's in 1987...

Monty Alexander & Ernest Ranglin “Rocksteady” Telarc Records 2004 This record is like the first blazing hot day of summer: though not...

July 10, 1996 Spacehog played at Bogart’s on a quadruple bill with Tracy Bonham, 7 Year Bitch and headliners Everclear, Spacehog’s set...

Crooked Fingers “Dignity And Shame” Merge Records 2005 On their fourth release, Dignity And Shame, Crooked Fingers’ traditional pop group...

After seeing Bob Dylan in concert at Bogart's on July 11th 1999 I submitted a review of the show to a local arts weekly. Wanting to...

What's it been 30 years? Hell, maybe 35? Now here we are again, Right out of the clear blue sky. Sharing tall tales and tunes, Just like...

Twenty years ago in the spring of 2002 I drove around the country by myself for six weeks. Here is another installment from the journal I...

(Six-pack not included) When your birthday is on the first of August, you do not often see a kick ass thunder and lightning storm on your...

Late in 1990 I decided I'd had enough of John James' bullshit. When I discovered he had been tapping the phone at Wizard Records (I still...