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Published on October 5th, 2022

We Intend to Cause Havoc, the band name chosen by frontman Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda and his mates, was a claim to distinction in a highly »

Published on September 23rd, 2022

While science helps to explain the brain’s response to psychedelics, the individual experience in all of its transformative capacity is spiritual — yet somehow still »

Published on September 23rd, 2022

Surfbort formed at the perfect time. In 2014, when the world seemed a little lighter, Dani Miller left California — to work in film in »

Published on September 22nd, 2022

A Cheshire cat slinks into an open seat at the bar next to Poison Ivy, while The Joker bolts outside, leaving his drink, to catch »

Published on September 22nd, 2022

Here’s a fact that seems made up: Florida has among the best state animal protection laws in America. So says the Animal Legal Defense Fund, »

Published on September 22nd, 2022

It’s been almost a decade since married bandmates Maitejosune Urrechaga and Tony Kapel began using Houndstooth Cottage as a name under which to start booking »

Published on September 19th, 2022

As flower power waned in the ’70s and hippies traded sit-ins for corner offices, the disillusionment that followed fed a new kind of fury at »

Published on September 19th, 2022

Like too many of my favorite bands, I got into Jane’s Addiction after they had broken up. I was fascinated by their music video for »

Published on September 18th, 2022

“Fucking love South Florida!!” That’s Chase Lombardo, drummer extraordinaire of cumgirl8, the NYC post-punk band that’s one of the headliners at Bumblefest 2022. The band »

Published on September 18th, 2022

In his 2012 book, “A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing,” American theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss compares antimatter to »

Published on September 15th, 2022

“The RZA, the GZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck …” It’s not too farfetched that if you start that chant in public, total strangers will »

Published on September 12th, 2022

It’s hard — nay, impossible — to say who the best Smith is. The surname derived more than a millennium ago from the term for »