There’s this from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times: an obituary for Dr. Frank M. Berger, 94 and creator of the mood-alterer Miltown (and whose very name sounds like a Rocky Horror Picture Show reference if you say it fast).
In the years after World War II (cue documentary music), Berger and his fellow chemists “synthesized a series [...]

Sucks more than Blacula! Hurts worse than ‘Earache My Eye!‘ First there was White Light / White Heat, then there was Red Patent Leather, and now… we give you… BLACK DEATH!

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Dave Wielenga, in “Staff Infection,” wrote of that strange and annoying subsect of men who don’t just dig Bruce Springsteen but diiiiiiig Bruce Springsteen. Dave has a name for them: Wendys. “Those 40-to-60-year-old guys with their denim outfits, their jutting lower lips and their certainty that Bruce alone understands them, and vice-versa. Like silly little [...]

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The traveling aerobics class known as a Bruce Springsteen concert tour opened a two-night stand at the Los Angeles Sports Arena on Monday, and I would have loved to have been there — clocking the show’s elapsed time and calculating its cardiovascular value — but I couldn’t stand the idea of another evening among the [...]

Scary Stories: Ramp up the Halloween festivities with 90 minutes of scary-ish stories for all ages. 6:30pm. $5.
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Bruce Springsteen: Springsteen’s first half of a two-night stay before he starts the inevitable tour through the campaign trail. 7:30pm.
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