Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist have been performing as Over the Rhine for 25 years A husband and wife collaboration with more than a dozen albums to their name, they create smart, quietly insightful music rooted in everyday life and human tenderness. The duo’s latest album, Meet Me at the Edge of the World, is full...

I first saw Tristan “Phonetic” McCormick at Streetlight Records. With his hoodie up and headphones on, he would silently dig through the bins and leave, barely making eye contact. Then I saw Phonetic, the Jekyll to his Hyde, spit rapid-fire lyrics at the Blue Lagoon to a stunned crowd—which erupted with raucous cheers. “My mind works...

Erotic is coming home after work and having your loved one give you a glass of wine and ask you how your day is, and actually listen. And foot rubs with lavender oil. Peri Searson, Santa Cruz, Dental Hygienist             When two people have the same or compatible kinks. Ethonia Cappelli,...

Capitola’s Jennifer Cass on the good vibrations of the harp   Jennifer Cass lives in a rambling Capitola house with four cats and five harps. The harps are the point here. With a full-time day job as chair of the Cabrillo College math department, the high-energy Southern California native is also a sought-after freelance musician on...

Bear Down Even after four decades in music, Patti Smith hasn’t lost her flair for delivering the unexpected, as she demonstrated at her Rio show last week. In the mid-’70s, it was seguing from “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine” into “Gloria,” or from Patty Hearst’s story into “Hey Joe”; in the 21st century,...

The cold-pressed juice craze, plus fennel gelato and other local tidbits Juice. It rules our breakfasts. And here’s why. Like many of you, I have been devoted to fresh organic juices, such as Odwalla products, ever since Greg Steltenpohl and his merry band of progressive innovators started up in Davenport many years ago. Finally, genuine orange...

Style and imagination on display in Oscar-nominated animated shorts from around the world Expect the weird and often wonderful from the animated short films nominated each year for an Academy Award. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the short film compilation programs (both Animated and Live-Action) that the Academy packages for theatrical release in advance...

Jake Smith on why he prefers to keep his characters in the shadows as the White Buffalo Jake Smith writes some songs about happiness, but he writes a lot more about unhappiness—the kind brought about by law-breaking, hard living, broken hearts and bad luck. Performing under the name the White Buffalo, Smith says these down-on-their-luck characters...

When I get together with my group of British women once a month—we are all transplants from Dear Old Blighty—we share food and wine, catch-up with what’s going on in our lives, and then end our evening with good strong cups of tea. I took some 2011 Storrs Zinfandel to enjoy with some hors d’oeuvres, and...

Found in Aptos: refined comfort food in a historic sport The rich history of the building housing the new Aptos restaurant the Hideout—which opened last month—isn’t lost on co-owners Peter Vomvolakis and Austin Welch. You will find old photos of the building, which dates back to 1930, hanging around the current restaurant. The building was originally...