PITTSBURGH – Those slights, abuses, and crimes that often go unreported can now be witnessed and judged by anyone with a swipe on their device. Chatter, a downloadable app designed for ‘concerned citizens, neighborhood gadflies, and social-justice heroes,’ launched this… Read More ›
Book Review: Outrage Level 10, Lucy Leitner Necro Publications, 328 pages Horror, in my opinion, takes itself too seriously. In the non-stop, adrenaline-pounding quest to put readers on edge, the genre often fails to move beyond its time-honored tropes around… Read More ›
Interview with Lee Matthew Goldberg, author of Orange City Growing up, I enjoyed orange soda and feared spiders, and both feature prominently in Lee Matthew Goldberg’s first science-fiction novel, Orange City, which offers a second chance for felons and outcasts… Read More ›
Book Review: Captain Clive’s Dreamworld Jon Bassoff, Eraserhead Press, 234 pages Early in Deputy Sam Hardy’s adulthood, he marries a woman he loves, they have a daughter they are too poor to support, so they give her up for adoption…. Read More ›
LOS ANGELES – As COVID-19 continues in its second year to plague the world’s population, a pleasant-smelling hand soap is selling faster than it can be supplied to consumers due to their claims that it ‘teleports’ them to faraway places… Read More ›
Book review: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil, Grove Press, 448 pages It’s time for a music test. Name your top-five rock bands. Here are mine: The Rolling Stones The Velvet Underground… Read More ›
Book Review: Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet Rod Taylor, Odyssey Books, 284 pages The assault to the environment currently underway by global warming continues to have noticeable impact on Los Angeles, where I live, in which blazes surrounding the… Read More ›
Book Review: Out of Frame Anthologies Jack Lothian, S.J. Sims, Rhiannon Robertson, Sarah Witt Oneiric Roper, John Morgan Risner, 179 pages Living in Los Angeles, I witness no shortage of artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, and other creatives whose eccentric tendencies and… Read More ›
Book Review: Dune Frank Herbert, ACE, 884 pages For science-fiction fans, Frank Herbert’s Dune was often introduced during a high school or college English class. For anyone with an interest in the fate of humanity, the 900-page tome became required… Read More ›
HILL VALLEY – A man believed to regularly travel through time uses his unique temporal abilities to measure how little food he can consume and other ways to have as little impact on the past, present, and future as possible,… Read More ›
Recently, I listened to Midnight Cities’ debut album, Shake My Heart, while heading home from a sun-soaked day at the beach. It had been a perfect summer outing; even traffic was clear as I drove along the Wilshire corridor, top… Read More ›
Book Review: The Psychic’s Memoirs Ryan Hyatt, 271 pages I had the pleasure of reading a draft of Ryan Hyatt’s The Psychic’s Memoirs in early 2019. Remember 2019? That feeling of disconnect with the world, but a hint of familiarity is… Read More ›
INLAND EMPIRE — A suburban software engineer who claimed to have clocked in more than 1,500 virtual meetings since the shelter-in-place order began in March, provided evidence to the public during a live-streamed presentation on Friday that he believed showed… Read More ›
CITY HALL – In the wake of George Floyd’s death and ongoing national protests demanding the end of police brutality, city leaders met this week to determine ways in which police might better protect and serve struggling black communities. The… Read More ›
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