Dirty Opera is the production company that my pals Dimitri Coats, Eddie Gonzalez, and I run locally. Our final event at The Claremont Laemmle 5, a lovely independent theater that is shuttering this location at the end of January, is one worthy of a farewell for this institution in the community. We are screening River’s …
Monthly Archives: January 2026
Second track from L. Eugene Methe and Dennis Callaci LP
The Last Chance Lottery is an old dream of a record. L. Eugene Methe and I started working on it a year or so ago after the idea of it had been floating around us for decades. In a cottage industry whirlwind, the two of us wrote, performed, engineered, created the artwork, videos, cover artwork, and …
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Trailer for Lavina Blossom’s Bamboo Dart Press premieres
Lavina Blossom’s first book for Bamboo Dart Press is a dream. A collection of 32 poems that owes its vocabulary to a separate book of poems taken from the writer’s bookshelf–usually the first and last lines in that collection. The author set herself the challenge of creating a coherent poem from each word set without borrowing …
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