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The state of California has been played many times on the strings of an acoustic guitar, but it is rare to find a songwriter who can compose an authentically Californian lyric. What remains to be said about the Golden Gate Bridge, the Hollywood sign or the Malibu coastline? Yet these are the images to which the music industry constantly returns. Enter Nightjars, the solo project of singer-songwriter Adrian Jade Matias Bell, whose debut EP, Modjeska, dropped May 7. After getting started in the do-it-yourself scenes of Orange County and Los Angeles, Nightjars moved up to the Bay Area and started playing local venues such as 924 Gilman in Berkeley and Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco. ....
Getty To many, the mint julep is an iconic accessory to the Kentucky Derby, but there’s more to this cocktail than big hats, horse racing and garden parties. The mint julep is a story of an American takeover. What started as a daily health elixir made with any handy liquor has morphed into the elite juleps of the Derby, priced for charity at up to $2,500. But these expensive drinks simply disguise its everyman origins. Alamy The Birth of an American Drink The julep’s origins date to Persia, where it was documented in the Sasanian Empire (224–651 AD) as a rosewater bath called ....