Bakersfield

"Day of Resistance" and The Case of The Rightbloggers Who Didn't Bark

Did you miss the Day of Resistance? Don't even know what it is? Well, it was a tea-party style throwdown last Saturday, in which thousands of your fellow citizens went packing in public to give Kenyan Pretender Obama the old cold-dead-hands salute. You might expect our friends the rightbloggers wo ... More >>

The Ten Best Country Albums of 2012

This list of the year's best country albums is assembled with two important premises in mind: First: If the people who record and listen to these records consider them country, than they're damn well country. Purists who argue that country should still sound like '68, '76, '84 or whenever are in the ... More >>

Bryan and the Haggards+Eugene Chadbourne

Happy National Taco Day! Find NYC's Best Tacos

It's National Taco Day, apparently! While New York City might not be Los Angeles when it comes to scoring premium carne asada off the street, there are still lots of excellent taco options to try. Plenty of new spots have opened since we listed the 10 Best Tacos in New York a couple of years ago, wi ... More >>

Morning Links: Chilean Miners Out Soon; Strikes in France; Signs that Dick Cheney Is Human

​• The rescue of the Chilean miners is imminent, and may even happen today. Fingers crossed! [CNN] • Strikes over the pension system in France are mucking up air and rail travel. Energy workers, teachers, and civil servants are also striking across the country. [NYT]

Bryan & the Haggards

John Doe & Exene Cervenka

Malkovich Swallows Up the Screen in The Great Buck Howard

Louis Owens and John Steinbeck's Ghosts

A mystery solved with the help of a professor and a mobster's musician

The Flying Burrito Brothers' Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969

Straight country grandeur, vintage even at the time

Swing Me Back Home

The career-launching music of another kind of '60s counterculturalist

In Control

Canny singer's evolving image subdues real-life tragedy

Morning Report 11/25/05
Curses, Foiled Again!

Have It All

Producers help pious country sexpot meet her many needs

What Hillary Told Cindy

Sheehan and company get face time with senators Clinton, Reid, Lieberman. McCain’s next.

But Boot Camp Is Still Free

Bush, Congress quietly slash key grants for college

Music

Day by Day, Death by Death

A Chronology of U.S. Military Fatalities Since 'Mission Accomplished,' Part I

Demonstrators Regroup, Plan MLK Day Actions

Activists Focus on the Mounting Costs of War

Majority Report

••• The Ghost of John Steinbeck

Mr. Hot Potato

California Lawmakers Keep Condit at Arm’s Length

Music

Ina Dancehall Groove—Finally

Nation

Nation

Jonathan Davis, Public Freak on a Leash, Lashes Back

Airport '99

Get Ready For Takeoff as the Rucker Tourney Heads For Its Final

Swingle White Males

Nothing's Shocking