Pour one out for the Cat & Fiddle -- another pub lost in the Southland

Pour one out for the Cat & Fiddle -- another pub lost in the Southland



The Cat & Fiddle is closing and we barely have any pubs in the Southland as it is. Help save these critically endangered specimens while you can!

Happy Discovery Day -- Real Geographic Discoveries of the Modern Age

Happy Discovery Day -- Real Geographic Discoveries of the Modern Age



A post for Columbus Day -- Columbus didn't actually discover anything and by most accounts he was a pretty unlikeable guy. However, the era of exploration was full of actual discoveries as adventurers stumbled across lands previously uninhabited by people.

Pop-Up Broadway: Exploring L.A.'s Original Great Street

Mayor Garcetti's first executive direction was the launch of the Great Streets program. Even though Broadway is not one of those Great Streets, is was chosen to show what a great street could look like for Pop-Up Broadway. I popped over to see what they city feels makes a great street -- which apparently involves a lot of yarn.

Vive les minets - French Dandyism in the 1960s

Vive les minets - French Dandyism in the 1960s



Jacques Dutronc's "Les play boys" came out in October, 1966, in which he sang "J'ai pas peur des petits minets. Qui mangent leur ronron au Drugstore." Just who were these minets of whom Dutronc professed to have no fear?

9 songs about cats

9 songs about cats



There are too many lame listicles of supposedly great cat songs. Here are nine songs about cats to which Alan has given the stamp of approval.

California Fool's Gold Episode Guide at the Amoeblog

California Fool's Gold Episode Guide



An episode guide to California's Fool's Gold -- my internet hommage to Huell Howser

Yet More One Album Wonders

Yet More One Album Wonders



My fourth installment of One Album Wonders -- bands from the Golden Age of the LP who utterly avoided the sophomore slump.