Outsider Folk: All are welcome

PHOTO by MEGHAN GRAY
I first met Matthew Gray at the final show my old punk band played before we went on hiatus in 2006. We were at the original {open}, and I had just told an offensive joke that previously cleared half our crowd in Santa Cruz. Earlier in the year, [...]

Foot Foot ” Trumpet”

Apologies for the incorrect calendar listing for this show, but it’s with this that you know now that the 21st installment of Outsider Folk hits tonight at Zephyr.
Full disclosure dictates me to tell you that The District’s Kevin Ferguson will be playing this show, but the rest of the line up is [...]

Harry Kellerman reports on Zephyr from on Sun., Jan. 6, when I was home sick:

@ ZEPHYR
SAT | AUGUST 18
Surprise from Riverside’s one-man Pegasissy with a thrift organ for tones and beats and heaving reverb on the vocals that sounded like Timmy Thomas—the singer who demonstrated in 1972 that drum machines actually do have soul—through a Rallizes vox-box. Waiting for the hand of Arthur to come down and tap him [...]

Educating the common carnivore at Zephyr Vegetarian Cafe

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
When my dad talks about vegan food, he scrunches up his face and declares, “rabbit food.” It’s easy to understand why: to the common carnivore, meals without meat lack the proper flavor and protein, not to mention tradition. A similar thing happened a few [...]