The Misread City

MY ardor for and fascination with the West Coast are undiminished. But recently I've put most of my blogging energies into my new projec...

MANY – perhaps most – of the people who follow the state of culture get tired of stories about the graying of the arts audience,...

HERE at The Misread City, we're huge Byrds fans, and Gene Clark is, some days, our favorite member of that great L.A. band. With the Byr...

THE other day I spoke to the former leader of what may've been the greatest band of the '90s -- Stephen Malkmus of Pavement. Their m...

IF it weren't for the '80s Village Voice, I probably would not be a journalist. (The world, I expect, would be a better place.) Th...

SOMETIMES I wonder why the words -- especially the personal essays -- of Richard Rodriguez hit me so directly. He is a gay Latino born in th...

RECENTLY I've been corresponding with Dave Allen, bassist for the British post-punk group Gang of Four. His ideas on digital culture -- ...