books: The Fight To Save Juarez – Life in the Heart of Mexico’s Drug War

[New Books] Gulf Drug Cartels And Small Town Life In Cuidad Juarez Tweet The Fight To Save Juarez – Life in the Heart of Mexico’s Drug War by Ricardo C. Ainslie, University of Texas Press, hardcover with dust jacket, first edition, 2013, $25 (332p), utexas.edu/utpress review by Bob Yunger Let’s start with a bit of text from the page for […]

Shamu’s Revenge

[Documentary Cinema] Blackfish movie review Tweet Blackfish Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite Running time: 90 minutes Producer: Manuel Oteyza Cast: Kim Ashdown, Samantha Berg, Carol Ray, Dean Gomersall, More Screenplay: Eli B. Despres, Gabriela Cowperthwaite review by Bob Yunger Printing this review will most likely guarantee that Sea World will never advertise here, dear readers. But that’s OK. God, what an awful […]

album review: Kut U Up, Worse Than Wolves EP

  Chill Punks   Release Date: July 2, 2013, digitally and on limited edition 12” black-and-clear swirl vinyl EP   Reviewed by Brent D. Tharp   Local San Diego band Kut U Up* have chilled out. Apparently, it took a while. More than ten years have passed since they put out Pulled Over…Your Eyes Are Telling Me Different Son, and starred in […]