Author Archives for Ken Walczak
Hope for the Godless: Sugar Lounge & Rye
Wherever you live, some nights positively tingle with the feeling that anything is possible. Anywhere you go, some nights it feels like nothing will ever go right. Ask any gambler: all too often those nights that begin so charged with possibility end in the crushing conviction that everything’s gone hopelessly to shit.
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“If You’re Gone”: Cantina
The first time I met Rob Thomas of the band Matchbox Twenty, I wanted to punch him in the face. I was not yet 20 at the time, which means he was something like 26 or 27. That second single was all over both of the town’s two megawatt alterna-rock stations, and I just didn’t […]
Dr. Bronner’s Electric Dream Movie: “B” and Dada
On the way across Market Street, I tried on my friend’s new pair of Blue Blocker sunglasses. The air was pleasantly cool, as it always is in San Francisco around cocktail hour. The sky was clear and bright, for a welcome change. Nothing about the surroundings stood in need of embellishment.The shades, black plastic frames […]
