Beginning in 2017, director Peter Jackson’s team of filmmakers commenced an odyssey to discover the Holy Grail of pop music. Reviewing, restoring and upgrading 60 hours of 16mm of film and 150 hours of audio recordings was a Herculean task, in and of itself. But … Read more
“I’m John and I, too, play the guitar. Sometimes I play the fool” Today, John Lennon would have turned 81, if not for the bullet fired by a mentally deranged fan. This senseless act of insanity deprived this world of 40 more years of music, … Read more
Climate change isn’t coming……it’s here. The signs are very real and very sobering. In just 2019 alone, here’s what scientists have documented: Arctic permafrost is melting at a rate that is far faster that we’d expected — 70 years early, in fact. This matters … Read more
The megadrought is coming. Scientists appear to be united in their assessment that changing climate patterns will hit the Southwest hard — including Southern California. On July 24th, Columbia University cientists detailed their findings in the academic journal Science Advances. And it is a sobering … Read more
The movie critics (or at least, many of them) are wrong about Yesterday, the Richard Curtis-penned movie released in June 2019. Yes, Yesterday features 15 songs written by The Beatles. Yes, it is based upon a fantastical premise: an alt-universe where only one middling musician … Read more