“Weird Al” Yankovich clowns on San Diego with Puddles Pity Party

Some concerts you wait your whole life for. Hyperbole effing valid. The year was 1996. The cassette tape was Bad Hair Day. The artist, “Weird Al” Yankovich. The place — afterschool kiddie care in a little shed overflowing with spiders at the back of a rural elementary campus in Boise, Idaho while my mom took […]

An unbelievable evening with Beck & the San Diego Symphony

You wouldn’t think that a Tuesday night would end up a full-on party. But it’s summertime in San Diego, with the Padres playing (and winning) next door to The Rady Shell, where Beck was joining the San Diego Symphony on the waterfront for a one-of-a-kind performance of euphonic deep cuts he rarely (or never) performs […]