Keith Richards on stage during the “cocaine and Tequila Sunrise tour”, 1972 In the crazy 1960s, the youth turned against the previous generation as perhaps none other ever has. Parents are always seen as squares, and more boring than your peers, but in this tumultuous time everything seemed out of control. By the end of …
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Discover the extraordinary story of legendary bluesman Joe Bonamassa in the inspirational documentary GUITAR MAN, arriving on Video-On-Demand and for Digital purchase December 8, 2020 from Paramount Home Entertainment. From average Joe by day to guitar hero at night, GUITAR MAN tells the incredible rise of blues-rocker Joe Bonamassa, whose hard work and determination have made him one …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip~sweet potatoes have lovely sprawling foliage and produce the food under ground. Due to the same lovely sprawling foliage ornamental sweet potato vines are popular in pots, so if you go to the nursery to buy sweet potato plant make sure to specify that you would like a plant that …
Seattle-based soul-jazz groovemonsters Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio announced I Told You So, their sophomore studio album will be out January 29th via Colemine Records. The announcement comes with the first single “Call Your Mom,” which Under the Radar praised saying “the jazzy guitar and shots of organ bring a swaggering style to the track as …
As we turn the corner from Fall to Winter, the Holiday season rushes toward us. Whether you are celebrating Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, the Election, a wedding, the Super Bowl, or even the launching a new battleship, one spirit fits the bill. Champagne. Sipped from a crystal coupe glass or sprayed all over your World Series teammates, the sparkling wine …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip~squash/pumpkins are among the most versatile produce, storage is easy and it makes lovely Fall decor until it becomes lunch. Time to hive mind some inspiration for utilizing squash/pumpkin. Antonia Yost caramelizes it with onions and sage to top her pizza along with gruyere cheese. Her brother made pumpkin dip …
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Music icon Don McLean performed for Alex Trebek’s final Christmas party in 2019. Don reflects on that time spent with Alex: “Alex asked if I would come and sing for him and his Jeopardy family at his annual Christmas party last year. I was on his “bucket” list he told me. It …
Seattle firebrand songwriter Rawb Middleton wrote this awesome protest song last year and shares this lyric video with you today to amplify his message. Please listen. Here’s how I described it a year ago: “But the wildest, awesomest and most subversive tune is a red hot and perfect send up of southern call and response …
Drinking and Voting Throughout most of early US history there was a strong relationship between elections and alcohol. It’s amusing in a way to read about the ‘election fraud’ going on now. We have nothing on the past. Our forefathers – George Washington even! – bought votes with alcohol. When Washington was 24, he ran for a seat in the Virginia House of Burgesses. He thought it was …
Twenty-four days ago my Dad died after a grueling three-year stay in a nursing home that he called his “jail cell.” Dad succumbed to a rare, progressive and irreversible neurological disease of unknown origin that is not hereditary. I wrote his obituary, and wanted to include Dad’s humble origins, which is why I wrote “born in a …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip~one of the greatest blessings of a hard freeze is the joyous ripening of American Persimmons! Before they are ripe they are astringent mouth puckering yuckiness, but a period of freezing temperatures transforms these lovely little orange egg shaped fruit into mushy messy sweetest fruit on earth! My buddy Bob …
My herb cabinet is a repurposed fold out VCR cabinet.. Tuesday eating from your yard tip~ If you haven’t already done so this is a good time to fill your herb cabinet with your favorite kitchen herbs for cooking this winter. As a general rule it is best to harvest herbs mid~morning after the dew …
Ancient Greek Mastos cup, ca. 500 BCE In October of 2008, my wife finished chemotherapy for Breast Cancer. She was diagnosed in April and started radiation therapy in June, finishing the Friday before the October Race for the Cure in Omaha. She was determined to walk the one-mile route to poke her finger in cancer’s eye, and I decided that if she could walk the mile, I could …
Jesus, Eddie Van Halen is dead. The wind’s been knocked out of me. What? Eddie Van Halen is gone, and with him, one of the last crouton-crumbs of my salad days has been swept away. Arguably the most influential rock musician of my generation, definitely the most influential rock guitarist since Hendrix. As with Hendrix, …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip ~ There is a pepper for everyone from sweet bell peppers and sweet banana peppers on the mild end and habaneros and ghost peppers on the hot end of the spectrum. Where to start? My grandson demands jalapeño peppers on his pizza and loves a who can eat the …
White Russian – recipe below When I was a senior in college, I spent my last semester studying architecture in London, and happen to have lucked into joining a group of fellow students from Fresno State in a week-long trip to the Soviet Union. Not Russia – this was an actual behind the iron curtain trip in 1985. We spent the first four days in Moscow, and one night we smuggled a group of Soviet kids our age into the International Hotel we were staying in. Citizens were not …
My wife and I left Illinois for the first time in 2020 to take a much needed break. Earlier this year we canceled trips to Utah (to see several national parks) and to Barcelona. Last week we drove into Michigan to visit the Sleeping Bear dunes and Mackinac Island in lieu of Barcelona to celebrate …
Tuesday eating from your tip~Of my wild harvesting friends, I am the most risk adverse. If you can potentially die or get sick from eating something at the wrong time and if I’m not starving then I don’t eat it. Pawpaws are the exception ~ the creamy custardy innards taste like a mixture of mango …
Here in Nebraska, and specifically in Nebraska City, we are in the middle of the 52nd annual Apple Jack Festival. It is a yearly celebration of the apple harvest, and a signifier of the transition from summer to fall – just as we have been celebrating for centuries in America. Apples have been an important part of …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip~I’m in the midst of harvesting the bronze fennel seeds! Fennel is in my top five favorite herbs. I carry a container of seeds in my purse to ease coughs, upset tummies and freshen up breath. All parts of fennel are edible. Some people get upset because their bronze fennel …
Photo of John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed The temperatures at night are falling, this week we see the transition to Fall, and here in Nebraska it is time for the annual Applejack Festival in Nebraska City. As all you arborists out there know, Nebraska City is the home to Arbor Day, the brainchild of J. Sterling Morton, one of Nebraska’s most famous citizens. But the season – …
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a pioneer in the women’s rights movement and the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, died Friday at age 87 due to complications of pancreatic cancer. She was a survivor of previous battles with cancer. I have read that Justice Ginsburg could not get a job with a law firm …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip ~ there are many basils with different tastes, colors of leaves and flowers. I have it on good authority from two elderly tipsy Italian women that purple opal basil is the key to a good marinara. Both the basil flowers and leaves are edible. A traditional basil pairing is tomato, …
The Mint Julep – recipe below. Horse racing and drinking have had a symbiotic relationship – likely since someone was drunk enough to try to jump on the back of a wild horse. There is some irony in this, considering the term cocktail (cock-tail) comes from the 17th and 18th century (illegal) practice of shoving a peeled ginger root up an …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip~the tomato glut is upon us! The go to is of course BLT, salsa or slices of tomato, motzerella and basil drizzled with olive oil and basalmic vinegar. How about~stuffing cherry tomatoes with pesto? Combine onion, ginger/garlic paste curry, sugar and vinegar cooked down to make lovely tomato chutney or …
There are very few rules in the bartending world. Since the cocktail was invented in 1803, bartenders and drinkers have been on a 200-year search for the best cocktail. Men and women have been mixing alcohol with virtually everything (there is an entire series of drinks that mix alcohol with beef broth!) and experimenting with any crazy technique they can think …
It is wise to eat the garlic chive flowers, otherwise left to their own devises these prolific self seeders will take over the garden. The leaves and flowers are edible garlic goodness. I look forward to their flowering to put a couple in my cooking wine to infuse some garlic into the wine. It is …
My grandson with his first cucumber crop. My most favorite use for cucumbers is skinned and thrown in a blender with limeade frozen concentrate substituting mint tea for the required water ~ optional alcohol of your choice. When I worked at a local garden center I noticed older men would come in looking for burpless cucumber …
Pearl Diver – recipe below. During the early 1970s I lived in Salt Lake City for several years in my late grade school/junior high years. As a gentile living in the land of LDS, we would occasionally visit an iconic restaurant in SLC called Johnny Quong’s The Hawaiian. The crazy Polynesian themed Tiki restaurant had lightning storms every 20 minutes where lights would flash, thunder would …
This past weekend, three months after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, which sparked national protests, and protests which are continuing in Portland, a white police officer in Kenosha , WI overreacted and shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back multiple times as he walked from the officer to get into his car with his children inside. …