It’s hard to believe that 20 plus years ago, the highest selling rap artist of all time, Tupac Shakur, was gunned down in Las Vegas just off the main strip at the intersection of Koval Lane and Flamingo Blvd about a block behind the famous Flamingo Hotel. The Intersection of Flamingo Blvd and Koval in…
New Orleans, September 2013 Author’s Note: This article is a flashback to the 2013 Beard Team USA National Beard & Mustache Championships in New Orleans that I recently rediscovered describing the “post competition blues”. Six years, and countless competitions later, I’m still friends with most featured in this article. We all have grown a little…
That time I met an American Werewolf in Burbank Prologue: Somewhere deep in the suburbs of Burbank, CA is “Bob’s Basement”. A private home museum of priceless horror/sci-fi props curated by its owner; actor, writer, former FX artist, Mr. Bob Burns. The museum part of the house is not open to the public, and doesn’t…
”Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life…” I was recently doing research at storied Sunset Sound Recorders studios in Hollywood for an article about Janis Joplin. In my research, I found out that Prince had recorded several tracks of “Purple Rain” in Studio 3, so I…