Opinion
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Insert Foot: Stuck with ‘Halloween 2018’ in 2020 until the COVID coast is clear
Left: Tony Hicks in the ’80s. Right: Tony Hicks in “Halloween 2018.” I went to a movie for the first time in eight months on Friday night. It felt … weird. I think paying for a film with Michael Myers as the protagonist, when I had once been paid…
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Professor Music dives into music theory and white supremacy with Kev Choice
Last month music school grad student and YouTuber Adam Neely released a video he titled “Is Music Theory Racist?” Quickly renamed “Music Theory and White Supremacy,” Neely’s video followed some controversy within the insular world of music schools after a symposium talk by Philip Ewell, an associate professor of music…
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Insert Foot: Putting the brakes on the bad to remember good times
Insert Foot longing for childhood. I just had an emotional Feel Like a Kid Again Week. Never heard of it? Me neither. I just made it up. I figure someone else is out there making up fake holidays (Daughter’s Day, Son’s Day … Hamster Month), so why shouldn’t I?…
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Obituary: The once-in-a-lifetime force of Edward Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen performs with Van Halen at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif., on July 16, 2015. Derek Simmons/STAFF. I was done crying and trying to get my head around Eddie Van Halen’s death, when my mom called me and offered condolences for “the most loved person…
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Insert Foot: Rick Moranis, jet packs and infected Washington, D.C.
Insert Foot vs. rushing through the COVID-19 pandemic. Now I know the world is going to hell. We have proof. Because who punches Rick Moranis in the head? A once-a-century pandemic? It’s terrible, but one could argue one was due. The ensuing death, suffering and unemployment? Anyone not jamming…
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Insert Foot: National Daughters Day, punk rock boyfriends and bleeding on strangers
Insert Foot vs. boyfriends and National Daughters Day. Social media told me Saturday was National Daughters Day, which I didn’t know existed. My first thought was to wonder if Iron Maiden celebrates “Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter” day. My second thought was to think my first thought was…
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Insert Foot: Rock books and dying dreams of COVID-19 lockdown
Insert Foot ignoring reality by doing some light reading. You want hope that 2020 will work itself out anytime soon? Sorry. This is where your dreams come to die today. Here’s how optimistic I am the virus-soaked coast will clear to emerge from our dark corner/mother’s basement/fire shelter made…
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Doctor Sung of TWRP on battling 2020 with positivity, working with Oakland’s Planet Booty
TWRP, Courtesy. Editor’s note: The colorful costumes and on-stage personas of Tupperware Remix Party (TWRP to its fans) are appropriately “over the top.” But keyboardist-singer Doctor Sung, guitarist Lord Phobos, bassist Commander Meouch and drummer Havve Hogan really are as hopeful as their music. The group, which got a start…
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Insert Foot: No better time for Bruce Springsteen to rise up again
Insert Foot Loves The Boss. What happens when Bruce Springsteen is no longer around to scrape us from the pavement after life rips out our guts and smashes the rest into the ground? Excuse me if I just don’t see BTS or Cardi B coming to sooth our troubled…
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Insert Foot: Sorting Sunday’s senseless splendor of stupidity
Insert Foot and the Cave of Solitude. Photo: Alberto Loyo/Shutterstock. So, the plan is to write in Kanye West’s name when we all vote in November … right, you guys? Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. Guys? Why not? How is Kanye West not a viable candidate for president in 2020–the year…
