October 28, 2022
I’m a little late to the party, perhaps, but so very stoked to have found out about The Heavy Heavy, a fantastic rock and roll band from Brighton, UK, who just happened to be in Northern California this week on their very first U.S. tour. I caught them at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco on Wednesday and last night a little closer to home at Little Saint, in Healdsburg. Fucking great to hear young people making my kind of music for a change.
January 12, 2012
Arthur S. Brisbane has what one might think of as a pretty good job. He’s the Public Editor (or, what was once known as the “ombudsman”) at The New York Times. According to the job description posted on the Times’ website, the Public Editor “responds to complaints and comments from the public and monitors the paper’s journalistic practices.” That is, he gets to represent the public interest (my emphasis) in what goes into “the newspaper of record.” Fully independent of the paper’s owners and publishers, the job description goes on to note, “(h)is opinions and conclusions are his own.”