By Randall Roberts
You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a
remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and
researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics,
technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans.
Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and
gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy
has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency,
and i
Children to right of them, children to left of them, children in front of them... As you can see in the above photograph, one, two, three -- FOUR -- school buses pulled up simultaneously this morning at the San Francisco Zoo, depositing their youthful, hyperenergetic, Miley Cyrus-adoring cargo onto the baking pavement. One moment after this photo was taken the No. 18 bus pulled up and disgorged its own contingent of tiny children. Clearly, for anyone harboring a yen for wild, carnivorous beastie
Radio GaGa? No, Lady Gaga Interesting article on Bay Area radio Music Directors in today's Chron. When I say interesting, it's because the information presented runs counter not only to what's currently happening with the commercial radio industry, but is written in such a way to suggest that writer Aidin Vaziri is completely clueless to this discrepancy.
In fact, this article is more notable for what it doesn't tell you than what it does: it doesn't mention that most, if not all MDs on Clear
As you'll learn from today's DJ Q&A, Kool Karlo & Haightin' Clayton are quite fond of skate mags, plastic watering cans, and making Tuesdays into the new Fridays. (But they can also keep Fridays as the new Fridays, if you check Clayton out tonight.)The pair pull San Franciscans out of those tall booths and on to the dance floor at the Ambassador, drowning out polite conversation with "butt-tickling bass" of the rap and electro varieties. They may not make enough bank to realize
Mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, popped out a 20.5 inch long, 7 pound 12 ounce baby girl today at 12:39 p.m.The baby, whose name was apparently being kept secret under threat of retribution, is Montana Tessa Newsom, named for the state in which the couple got married. (What if they had been married in Rhode Island?)Montana is in good company. At any rate, she has company. Other famous Montanas include:1. Hanah Montana (Miley Cyrus) who is part-rocker, part-regular high sc