The photo stopped us in our tracks the first time we saw it on our friend, Gil Perron’s Facebook page, a beautifully balanced island of warm blue floating in a sea of black. Warm white light sculpted the blue, giving it greater depth and endowing it with a magnetic quality. The light settled gently on […]
Like fine wine, (make that fine red, red wine!) UB40 seems to get better with age. Proof of that is there for all to see and enjoy every day on the reggae-pop legend’s very successful 2024-25 UK and EU tour. Fans of all ages, many of whom were not yet a twinkle in their father’s […]
“Rock N Roll will never die!” The phrase has echoed down through the years since 1952, when a Cleveland disc jockey popularized the phrase to describe a new genre of music that was beginning to sweep the USA. Rock music has indeed never died, but instead has grown only stronger over the ensuing decades, in […]
The American Dream… This phrase may sometimes be bandied about lightly, but in the case of this LA-based designer, it is resoundingly true! At 17, Darren Langer was living in a motel room with, by his own account, “no plan for the future.” Lighting offered him a path after his cousin, Brian Marincic, introduced him […]
No one could have faulted Rodger Pugh if he wanted to kick back for a while. The owner of Devus Designs, the Tempe, AZ-based designer-director had just completed long run with Static-X and Sevendust, when he had a small break in his schedule. Now, a chance to enjoy some time off! But like any eager […]
His first exposure to theater was on the stage, when his mother, an amateur dramatics director, prevailed upon him to don green tights and a swimming pool cap adorned with plastic leaves to play the role of Oberon King of the Fairies. As he stood there on the set, the young Durham Marenghi looked around […]
There is freedom and power in leaving one world and entering another. Ancient philosophers echoed this sentiment in every corner of earth. It is an enduring truth that the polymath Donald Glover wanted to channel for his aptly named “The New World Tour,” earlier this year, for his last run of shows as the Grammy-winning […]
Traditions are funny things. They mark the passage of time and connect us to events and seasons. But they always remain beyond our control. They can’t be bought, they can’t be forced, they can’t be faked, and they never happen overnight… At least almost never! All that changed in 1996, when the late Paul O’Neill […]
Things can be said in colors and shapes that cannot be said any other way, the great Georgia O’Keeffe once observed. The creative team at The Playground summoned the power of this mysterious visual language for Megan Thee Stallion on her recent Hot Girl Summer tour. Wanting to share the story of her creative and […]
‘We’ve got the basic thing the kids want — they want to rock, and that’s it.” AC/DC guitarist Angus Young told an interviewer not long after the band started. He was right, but only partly. It’s not just “kids,” but fans of all ages, who love being jolted by the band’s straight forward scorched earth […]
This Boston based designer has enriched an eclectic mix of projects with light during the course of his highly successful career, from product launches by Fortune 500 companies, to museum exhibits and television broadcasts, to tours by the likes of Alicia Keys, Cardi B, Lenny Kravitz and Gwen Stefani. Despite the varied nature of these […]
Music memories are often made at 628 Divisadero Street in San Francisco. It’s been that way since the 1960s, when the address was home to the Half Note Club, which hosted shows by jazz legends like Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. In the 1990s, 628 Divisadero Street was silent for a few years. But music […]