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Mick Jones for a proposed Alternative Press piece on punk’s original guitar heroes. Though it remains unpublished, I asked in the course of it what he thought of Rancid. Jones waxed effusive, noting he’d met the Berkeley punk traditionalists in the course of a U.S. Big Audio Dynamite tour, impressed with how hands-on and DIY they were in the running of the band, down to storyboarding their own videos. I smirked. “You’re being considerably generous, considering many cynics think Rancid should be named to Give ‘Em Enough Rope: A Tribute To The Clash,” I quipped. “It doesn’t mat...

Who Said That April 23, 2021 Dwight David Eisenhower, who had a notable military career, spoke out against the rising costs of war during his presidency. The quote from 1953 carries significance today as President Biden has announced the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Some refer to it as America’s “longest war.” It certainly has been costly, according to Governing Editor-at-Large Clay Jenkinson. April 23, 2021 Jodie Guest, a public health researcher at Emory University, regarding the 80 percent decline in COVID-related hospitalizations of older Americans as vaccinations...

Seattle’s new tunnel-boring machine named MudHoney By David Gutman, The Seattle Times Published: April 18, 2021, 6:00am Share: SEATTLE — Seattle’s newest massive tunnel-boring machine has been dubbed MudHoney, after the grunge rock pioneers who began performing in Seattle clubs more than three decades ago. Seattle Public Utilities launched an online vote to pick a name for the 900,000-pound drill that will spend the next 14 months digging a 2.7-mile tunnel from Ballard to Wallingford. MudHoney emerged the overwhelming winner, with more than 76 percent of the vote. Other f...

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Javier Escovedo: “It’s go time. This is not a drill. The Zeros documentary is in production.” “It’s go time. This is not a drill. The Zeros documentary is in production,” says Javier Escovedo, who is working with filmmakers Anthony Ladesich and Michael Webber on a movie about his influential 1970s punk band. “Interviews with Baba Chenelle are in the can, and Robert Lopez will be interviewed in Seattle in April.” Escovedo lived in Huntington Beach before moving to Chula Vista in his teens and forming the Zeros, aka “the Mexican Ramones,” in 1976. After debuting at a dance i...