1.  CONGRATULATIONS! One-time Berkeley Place contributor and occasional DC/Marvel author Mike Raicht’s brilliant indie creation, “The Stuff of Legend,” will be published in trade by no less than Random House.  This is a book of superlative quality, appropriate for all ages (but it’s a little creepy), touching, and beautifully drawn by Charles Wilson III.  Look [...]

I don’t know about you all, but I think that mid-90s Whiskeytown was Ryan Adams at his best.  The band’s line up was Ryan, Caitlin Cary, Phil Wandscher, Steve Grothmann, and Skillet Gilmore–all exceedingly talented–and Ryan didn’t shy away from the country side of alt-country.  This show was special for those reasons, and for the [...]