JEFF the Brotherhood returns May 26th W/ Purple + Gonzos
Jeff the Brotherhood from Will Love on Vimeo.
JEFF the Brotherhood returns to the StarBar! So the press loves them, big deal. The only thing that matters is - you will too. If you didn't make the preSXSW show in March the video above should give you an idea of what the fuss is about. The energy is inescapable, making a tight pack of 40 movers and shakers feel like the center of the pit at Woodstock. Jeff plays over 150 dates a year churning out catchy 3-string low-fi pop jewels. You won't feel like a stranger to these tunes, but every 3-4 minutes you may find yourself singing, humming or ingesting the wonderful after taste of their delicious melodies.
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Beaumont: Beautiful Mountain or Garbage Mountain?
Beaumont is not known for being the most progressive or green-minded city. Many would like that to change but then enters the problem of using city-wide resources for programs not supported by the larger community. In past the curb-sde recycling program in Beaumont has cost the city nearly 300K a year. A decade later recycling is still not a profitable venture. It requires an enormous commitment of resources including residents active participation. In 2008 Beaumont initiated a pilot program with great initial success. Waste Management found it self delivering recyclables 60 times from the single drop off location at 23rd and Phelan in just the first 45 days. The city was to use this info to determine where to expand to program if at all. Unfortunately it was short lived. In a more recent attempt in February of 2010 the City of Beaumont included a survey of a potential recycling program. As I suspected, people like the idea of curb-side service but were unwilling to pay the extra $10-15 a month. The average person was willing to pay an additional $5 a month but was unwilling to take their recyclables to drop off locations. Here in lies the problem. Is recycling and the environment just a novelty or an important part of our civic future?
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Scott H. Biram to Headline 2010 Boomtoom Festival
Scott H. Biram is confirmed to headline the 2010 Boomtown Film and Music Festival. Scott's solo mix of hardcore bluegrass punk-rock has made him an outlaw of the Texas indie scene. As the picture above would correctly indicate Scott has strong feelings for beer and rock & roll. He is the self proclaimed, "Dirty Old One Man Band". His sound is dirty as a mudbug and so raw he makes sushi taste like blackened catfish.
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Put this in your pipeline
The pipeline to bring Canadian tar sands to Port Arthur is a bad idea in the long run...
- 1st and foremost it won't create many long term jobs.
- Will make it more difficult to stay compliant with increasing EPA air quality standards. ( 3x more toxic than crude from offshore)
- New energy bill increases regulations on carbon producers (that's us).
- Does not allow us to take advantage of incentives for creating jobs in the renewable energy sector.
- Still relies on foreign oil. (at least its not Venezuela or Saudi Arabia)
- Uses 2 barrels of the cleanest fossil fuel (natural gas) and one barrel of water to produce one barrel of crude even before refining.
- Only became economically viable when gas prices reached $3 (too expensive to process before)
Lets take Detroit, motor city, for example...
Who's Selling Whom?
[author's note: these opinions are my opinions and mine alone and although they may or may not be shared by my fellow ctheds administrators i would like to take complete responsibility for them]
Dear Beaumont and Surrounding Areas,
I have noticed multiple websites popping up containing words such as Beaumont, now, 409, live, etc...giving the appearance of covering and supporting our local music scene. Let me make a few things clear. I will never cover bands and pretend to be interested in them although truthfully having never seen them. I will not write about shows that I did not attend as if I was there. I will never put my own benefit ahead of the bands or people that make up the scene that I have loved for close to a decade.
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