Most of the music in my mp3 collection was not written recently. A quick glance at the top of my play count in iTunes shows names like Led Zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, and Judas Priest. So of course two years ago I was stoked to go see Roger Waters perform The Wall in [...]

What an odd, awesome, wonderful, noisy, chaotic place. Depending on your perspective, the City Museum is a kid’s fantasy come true or a great place to get tetanus. I explored the caves, the rooms full of steampunk fantasy come true, gorgeous displays of masonry, and found myself sitting alone with a restored 1927 Wurlitzer movie [...]

The Sonoma County Museum is featuring a new exhibit, “Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon,” on display until April 5, 2009. I got to check it out over the weekend. The museum is small but architecturally interesting, and the exhibit is an interesting slice of robot art from recent years. It was worth the trip [...]