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NCAA Tournament – Round 2 – 2001

Mar 14, 2012 No Comments by

By Mickey M. This was the 2nd round of the tournament, and we got to see some big name teams go at it. USC vs. BC and Kentucky vs Iowa. There were plenty of tickets so we had 3 carloads of people head out to the coliseum just to see the games. Noone had any [...]

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Who’s the man in THIS family!

Mar 12, 2012 1 Comment by

by Matt Peter It was one of those days, when despite your best efforts to NOT get into a testosterone battle, it was unavoidable. Grab you balls and show what you got – Bowling Balls I mean. OK – so it was me (aging),. my brother-in-law (aged) and our father-in-law who out of respect I [...]

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Watching Canseco in 1994 – Pass the Juice please

Mar 10, 2012 No Comments

by Kent Rogers Looking back at this game, I wonder why I didn’t see more balls fly out of the ballpark. I was back in Texas again (smarter this time by scheduling my meetings there for April instead of the middle of the summer) and as usual our night our started with some good natured [...]

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Page and Plant – Their Unleaded Tour

Mar 02, 2012 No Comments

by Joseph Terrazas Their Unleaded Tour (Unleaded, Meaning they didn’t bother bringing long time Bassist, John Paul Jones??? ) Early into the show Page seemed to be content to play second fiddle to Plant as he set the direction early on, until Page broke loose with Heartbreaker, then solo after solo. He displayed the daredevil chops [...]

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Amazing

Feb 24, 2012 No Comments

by Callie R. It wasn’t a ballet, somebody was standing on chairs, and there were 2 boys who were not dancing and were just in their underwear. The girl took all the chairs and it went literally up to the ceiling, Literrrrallly, and it went in all different shapes, not just one chair on top [...]

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Emilie Autumn Liddell “Victoriandustrial”

Feb 22, 2012 No Comments

by Joseph Terrazas Emilie Autumn Liddell. Born In Los Angeles 1979 is An American songwriter, poet, and violinist. The style of which she has alternatively labeled as “Victoriandustrial”. She began playing the violin at age 4, and left regular school at the age of 9, with her goal of becoming a world-class violinist. She practiced [...]

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The Firm Concert a flashback to late ’60s 

Feb 14, 2012 No Comments

by Joseph Terrazas They’re barely two albums old, but the Firm’s concert Monday night at Houston’s The Summit was a flashback to the late ’60′s and early ’70′s: grinding British power blues, plenty of soloing ,was Heavy, for a relatively small crowd of some 8,000. The Firm,  “Super group” great combination of talents. Jimmy Page and Paul Rogers (From Free and [...]

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Sly & Robbie, nyc, sept-1986

Feb 12, 2012 No Comments

by slime.o 1st half of this reggae show at the ritz theater had lots of sythesizer & heavily reverb’d beat, playing up to the new york crowd, filled the hall with some good vibes … 2nd set was even looser, the dancehall riddims started flowing, the riddim twins turned up the bass & the off-the-beat [...]

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What would you give up…….

Feb 06, 2012 No Comments

by the Angry Traveler It’s New Year’s Eve – 90 miles from your house, the New Year’s Party you’re committed to attending and you’ve got 2 tickets to see a bunch of washed up ex-NHL’s drag themselves around the ice for a little while in the City of Brotherly Love. Whaddya gonna do? I’ll tell [...]

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Peter Gabriel – And it Did Rain, Not Red Though

Feb 04, 2012 No Comments

by Joseph Terrazas Houston, TX Woodlands Pavilion Was a nice evening for a concert, a 25 years old pop musician from Uzbekistasn, Sevara Nazarkhan, opened up for Mr. Gabriel. She was playing a stringed instrument called the dutar a 15th century 2 stringed instrument that is plucked and not strummed and has a voice that [...]

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