The nation's oldest Death Row inmate probably won't ever be executed. But he sure loves to write letters.
South Florida's lawless exotic rental car industry keeps rolling.
In Texas, restitution for victims is nothing but a state-sanctioned sham.
If you thought Seattle couldn't fetishize coffee any more, you haven't been to a "cupping" yet.
You may not realize it, but you know at least one Local H song. The guitar-and-drums duo was an alternative rock darling in the mid-'90s, thanks to hits such as "Bound for the Floor" and "All the Kids are Right." Those singles, like most Local H songs, were carried by the wry, slightly sarcastic tone of Scott Lucas and a crunchy, bottom-heavy sound. On this year's Twelve Angry Months, Lucas catalogues his reactions to a brutal break-up one song (and one month) at a time. While this isn't exactly a novel conceit (both the Good Life's Album of the Year and Colin Blunstone's One Year follow similar trajectories), Lucas spares no detail and offers no solace to his ex-lover. In doing so, he proves that his band, and the concept of the break-up album, are alive and well in 2008.