Linda Ronstadt performs at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, Texas in August 1981. Courtesy Circacies/WikiCommons. It’s our illustrious editor Roman Gokhman’s favorite time of the year: A whine-about-the-heat column! Because, man, it’s a hot one. … Like seven inches from the midday sun. [Gokhman note: Not THIS again…]…

Dire Straits perform in Drammenshallen, Norway on Oct.. 22, 1985. Photo: Helge Øverås/Wikicommons. There’s still a war going on, and the plague is ongoing, and it’s 70 degrees out which means it’s gonna be like 115 during the summer. That means I don’t want to talk about current events.…

“Round and Round” by RATT; need we say anything more? As our illustrious editor Roman Gokhman alluded to in last week’s column, I’ve got a girlfriend. Sorry ladies, but I’m off the market. It’s become somewhat of a Valentine’s Day tradition for me to openly loathe romance and love…

Loki, courtesy Disney+ and Marvel. This probably won’t come as a shock to anyone who’s ever been within earshot of me or read anything I’ve ever written, but I’m a huge nerd. And, since I’m a huge nerd, it probably won’t come as a shock to anyone that I’m…

Angus Young of AC/DC performs during the Rock or Bust Tour at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 17, 2016. Courtesy BT PR. This past week… I left the house. After 14 long months I ventured outside and went up to South Lake Tahoe for a few…

Insert Foot Vs. National Siblings Day. Saturday was Siblings Day, which we celebrate by posting photos on social media of siblings harmoniously pretending to get along, not trading blows and not throwing a deceased parent’s false teeth at each other at a funeral home. Don’t ask. I didn’t meet…

For AC/DC to even put out a new record in 2020 is a serious accomplishment. Power Up AC/DC Columbia Records, Nov. 13 7/10 Just in the past few years, the band’s musical backbone, Malcom Young, died in 2017. Brian Johnson had hearing problems severe enough to send him to…

“Danse Macabre” (1493) by Michael Wolgemut. Not pictured: Ghost’s “Dance Macabre.” OK, enough dancing around it. I’ve done three editions of my Halloween Month and basically none of them has been a legit Halloween list. I’m writing this in advance so there’s no telling what unspeakable horrors have befallen…

Billy Joel didn’t start the fire. It was probably PG&E. A trigger warning for our Bay Area and Northern California readers: This column is an ode to PG&E. As our non-Californian readers may have heard, California was recently in the midst of a full-blown apocalypse. There were hurricane-force winds,…

Oakland Athletics. No juice required. Photo: Sacramento Bee. After so many long, dreary months without baseball, it has finally returned to the East Bay. And to a lesser extent, the rest of the country. In celebration of this momentous occasion, an occasion that should absolutely be a national holiday,…