Thacher is a formidable-looking building at 110 E. 8th Avenue with its pillars of Capitol-era limestone muscling their way down to street level. As the brand new home of Gizmo Pictures and the upcoming Blue Planet Café, the enormous Thacher fits the bill. It’s an adaptable place with a façade that’s been locked into downtown’s [...]

In Sarah Newberry’s office at Colmery-O’Neil VA Hospital, patients fill up the institution-blue chairs and crowd around the stereo. They have over 200 CD’s to choose from, and the conversation blossoms in this small room, discussions starting with the immediacy of the music issued from the speakers, but ending in places very few of us [...]

Check out Patrick Lentz this Saturday, March 27th @ Sharkey's Tiki Bar and Grill

-photos by EJ Drake “You play someone a great record and they don’t react to it, you know it’s time to get them out of your house.” - Miriam Linna, former Cramps drummer When vinyl chloride was discovered in the late 19th century, the resulting versatile plastic was tossed out as a useless rigid material, as [...]