This week's sporkful

Last weekend was '80s Weekend at McMenamin's Crystal Ballroom, with videos Friday night and '80s cover band Radical Revolution p...

Saturday night I went to see Radical Revolution - a local 80s cover band - at the Crystal Ballroom. That review will appear tomorrow. Tuesda...

I bet you thought I was going to post yesterday; I certainly thought so! It was a busy day, and a lot of the things that happened were goo...

I have been working on this one post for a while, realizing that it is too much for one post, but not sure how many and which posts it actua...

This review is going to seem more critical than I intend. I really enjoyed listening. There is this rumble that goes through my chest when...

I have been frustrated with not having as much time for music listening, even with sprinkling album reviews into the mix. I have gotten some...

Friday I turned 48, having been 47 for a year already. I really didn't want to do it. I was fine with aging, but hitting the actual an...

Here are some opinions of mine! No, I don't think anyone has asked, but on a day that lots of people use to promote the mildest samples ...

Grumpster is a punk band from Oakland. They just released a new album in November on Asian Man Records. Underwhelmed starts out strong w...

A House of My Own is a collection of writings by Sandra Cisneros. There were some magazine pieces and a presentation that went with a slide...

I didn't have any children's books this time, but I did read several comics. One of them, Nightlights , could be appropriate for chi...

I started having some concern about whether "Hispanic Heritage" is the best way of expressing the concept shortly after learning t...

Kerbera is an alternative rock band from Stockholm, Sweden. Listing influences like Muse and Avenged Sevenfold, and having toured with Fal...

If the end result of this past decade is that I have become more aware of how big the world is, and how interconnected, the irony is that fo...

It has been very frustrating in this phase of my life finding that I can't write as much or listen to music as much, but the big comfort...

For the past few days I have been doing a lot of review and reminiscing. It has come mainly from Twitter. A lot of the results have also had...

I don't know how long being a caregiver will be my life, but at my core that is probably something I will always be. That's okay; t...

Fun fact: one of my 2019 accomplishments was learning that S/T means "self-titled". However, in reviews it is apparently appropria...

I had a point where I was frustrated with not being able to spend enough time listening to music to do any reviews. Now time is still an iss...

Cosmonox ended the show Saturday night, and it just got weirder. Both members of Cosmonox appeared to play different things, but they ...