The Port Arthur News obituary mourns the death of the town's second most famous native, after Janis Joplin. I wish some of the big-city paper obits spent less time tut-tutting RR's' "unevenness" and more time reminding people what a terrific painter he was. The Combines show at MOCA two years ago was like the collected works of Tennesse Williams realized in paint and street-sweepings. A video clip from his 1967 happening Linoleum is available on Ubuweb. Don't miss the person crawling around inside a chickenwire cage filled with chickens. 
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May 2008
The Three Caballeros
What better way to celebrate the Arbor Day L.A. heatwave than a dog party? Instead of games, Isabella and Simba joined Sid in search of cool, dark places to plop down.
No, I won't be stupid and go on about "The Decline of Western Civilization" blah blah blah like gatekeeper intellectuals are so essential, but it's annoying anyway
On April 16, Alan Rich announced that the suits at the L.A. Weekly had decided to end his "Night Music" column. So ends one of the most enlightened and entertaining stints of music journalism, ... besides being about the only reason beside Jonathan Gold for ever touching the inky, trashy rag. I have never exchanged a single word with AR, but came to realize that his presence at a concert in L.A. reassured you that you had made the right choice. But all is not lost. I see that he's actually still doing stuff for the Weekly, and promises a blog of his own.