On Saturday attended Community meeting held at Louis Sutter Clubhouse in McLaren Park organized by Supervisor John Avalos with city agencies, neighborhood groups and event promoters involved in the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater to brainstorm on how they could work together to improve the amphitheater activity and bring people to McLaren Park. People offered to help with fundraising, setting up a website,...
Elephant Hill off in the distance as seen from our hill. So glad those little dirt trails will never lead up to 24 huge ugly boxy beige "luxury" homes. Get lost developers. Leave our hills alone. Jerry Garcia Band "Deal" Iron & Wine "Such Great Heights"
I just found out that I have outlived actor Raul Julia. Also Jerry Garcia, Gene Siskel, Enrico Fermi, Dian Fossey, Harry Houdini and Babe Ruth. Plus Lenin, and Hermann Goering. The source of this trivial nostalgia is a clever, simple website called http://dead.atyourage.com . Just type in your date of birth and you'll find get the names of prominent people who passed away when they were just your age,...
It seems Bill Walton’s broadcasting career will meet the same fate as his playing career. Walton, who joined ESPN in 2002 as an analyst, will not appear on telecasts for the World Wide Leader this season, due to injury. This time, as has been the case for the last few years, Walton’s debilitating back problems are precluding him from the rigors of the NBA season. Walton’s contract...
While we’re in Columbus this weekend, I won’t be able to avoid thinking about what I’m missing: Halloween in Athens. I was in Athens for an embarrassingly large number of Halloweens, starting in the years when the street takeover was still a takeover and later, when it was a city-sanctioned street party. I came up with a [...]
JERRY GARCIA BAND WILL LET IT ROCK Double-Disc Collection Includes Rare Early Performances Of The Group's Original Lineup Featuring Legendary Pianist Nicky Hopkins, Recorded Live In Berkeley, November 1975 For Jerry Garcia, 1975 was a seminal year that found him splitting time between recording Blues for Allah with the Dead, directing The Grateful Dead Movie, and forming the Jerry Garcia Band - his...
Whatever his many failings , National Endowment for the Arts chairman Rocco Landesman is staying true to his roots as a showman. Not content with seeing his boss crowned with a Nobel Prize, Landesman proves by algebra that President Obama is in fact better than Napoleon, Pope Joan, Kwan Lu of Argus 7, and all other leaders in history: This is the first president that actually writes his own books since...
Garrison Keillor on getting out of Afghanistan. Worth a read. We don't admire quitters, but no one wants to be the last person to believe in a mission, either. On the other hand, you don't want to be the last man to believe in the mission after everyone else has seen the light and gone home. Sunday in San Francisco, they set out to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock by gathering 3,000 guitarists...
Last week, the Packers absolutely dominated the Detroit Lions, scoring a 26-0 shutout. I am not sure if this proves I am a glass half-empty guy, or that I merely see, in the immortal words of Jerry Garcia, that "every silver lining has a touch of grey." Either way, I was not impressed, and that (plus a busy work schedule) contributed to the delay in this analysis... Added by: SportsScribe...
after 42 years of sports and musical history, this week the beloved philly venue will host its final concerts before being torn down early next year. pearl jam will play tuesday, wednesday, friday and saturday night, and rumors are...
The Grateful Dead's versatility and improvisatory skills extended to their acoustic sets, in which lead guitarist Jerry Garcia reached back to his early 1960s roots in folk, bluegrass and old time music. Here the Dead perform a hypnotic "Birdsong" at Radio City Music Hall in 1980. Band lyricist Robert Hunter wrote the song as a tribute to Janis Joplin: "All I know is something like a...
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