Rudy Panucci On Pop Culture

Author: Rudy Panucci (Page 1 of 139)

A Fresh New STUFF TO DO For 2026

A new year brings a new boilerplate for this feature, which is a cursory list cool STUFF TO DO all over the state, noted as briefly as possible.

As always, you should remember that THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST OF EVENTS.  It’s just a starting point, so don’t expect anything comprehensive, and if you feel strongly about me leaving anything out, feel free to mention it in the comments. Seriously, for the last several weeks, by the time the weekend rolls around, I discover several events that I just totally missed out on.  Also, if you have a show that you’d like to plug in the future, contact me via Social Media at Facebook, BlueSky , Spoutible, Instagram or Twitter.  I dont charge for this, so you might as well send me something if you have an event to promote. Note that some links look like they shouldn’t work because they have lines through them, but that’s just a WordPress glitch, so click on them anyway. They should still work.

We are very happy to remind you that Cristen Michael has created an interactive calendar that is way more comprehensive than this list of STUFF TO DO, and you can find it HERE. Just click on the day and the event and you’ll be whisked away to a page with more details about loads of area events.

Starting this week, I’m going to pick one event to feature up here in the main body of the article. This week it’s Through The Trees this Saturday at Unity of Kanawha Valley, in South Hills.

Most weekends you can find live music at Taylor Books. There is no cover charge, and Friday and Saturday shows start at 7:30 PM.  Many Sunday afternoons they also have live music.

You can find live music in and around town every night of the week. You just have to know where to look.  Keep in mind that all shows are subject to change or be cancelled at the last minute.

Among the notable music venues in town are The World Famous Empty Glass CafeLive at The Shop in Dunbar, Louie’s, at Mardi Gras Casino & Resort, In Huntington, there’s local institution, The Loud (formerly The V Club),  The Wandering Wind Meadery is on Charleston’s West Side, Plus there’s music in Charleston at The Blue Parrot, Sam’s Uptown Cafe and Fife Street Brewing.

You might also find cool musical events at Route 60 Music in Barboursville and Folklore Music Exchange in Charleston.

To hear music in an alcohol-free enviroment, see what’s happening at Pumzi’s, on Charleston’s West Side.  You can also visit Coal River Coffee in Saint Albans for live music in an alcohol-free environment.

For cutting-edge independent art films, downstairs from Taylor Books you’ll find the Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema by WVIFF. Each week they program several amazing movies in their intimate viewing room that you aren’t likely to see anywhere else.

Please remember that viral illnesses are still a going concern and many people who have very good reasons are still wearing masks, and many of us, understandably, are still nervous about being in crowds, masked or not. Be kind and understanding  while you’re out. And if you’re at an outdoor event, please remember that it’s awfully inconsiderate to smoke or vape around people who become ill when exposed to that stuff. If somebody asks you to refrain, please respect their weishes and don’t be a jerk about it.

Keep in mind that all shows are subject to change or be cancelled at the last minute.

Here we go, roughly in order, it’s graphics for local events happening over the next several days that I was able to scrounge up online…

Continue reading

A Magnetic RFC Kicks Off The New Year

It’s the first new program day of 2026 on The AIR  and we’re marking the occasion with a new episode of Radio Free Charleston that is winging your way despite your humble blogger and radio host spending much of Monday inside a giant magnetic tube. To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

Radio Free Charleston brings you a partially-new show with the first hour loaded with great local and independent stuff, and the remaining two hours re-re-presenting the very first episode of RFC International, from January, 2016. The reason for this is that I had to have an MRI done, and accidentally scheduled it for a Monday, when I usually record the show. Rest assured that it was nothing dire or urgent. My doctor just wanted a baseline reading to aid in treating my Myasthenia Gravis.

Our opening track, Parry’s song is one of two tunes that benefit recovery programs in the state.  We ran the first one last week.

We also load up our first hour with great new tunes from The Carpenter Ants, Sgt. Van & The Highway Dogs, Gardenn, The Settlement, The Heavy Hitters Band and more.  We close out the first hour of our show with a classic track by the recent birthday girl, Ann Magnuson, in honor of her day of birth and her recent 30th anniversary live performances of The Luv Show, from which “Miss Pussy Pants” originates.

For our second and third hours we go back to the first RFC International, the series which I merged into this program six years ago to create the show you hear each week now. It’s loaded with some of my favorite tunes that I was dying to unleash into the world back then. This is the third or fourth time I’ve used this show for our final two hours, but this time at least it’s anniversary-inflected, so it makes sense instead of just being padding.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page in the first hour…

RFC V5 254

hour one
Parry Casto “It’s A Beautiful Day”
The Carpenter Ants “It”s Time”
Gardenn “Certified Crashout”
The Heavy Hitters Band “Use Me”
Moron Police “Make Things Easier”
Jim & The Sea Dragons “In Walked A Jellyfish”
Sgt. Van & The Highway Dogs “Surfing With The Sumerian”
John Radcliff  “Not Satisfied”
The Settlement “Midnight Train”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Rhinoplasty”
Vinto Van Go “Don’s Song”
Astrodot “The Impossible Mission”
Ann Magnuson “Miss Pussy Pants”

hour two
The Beatles and Led Zepplin “Helter Skelter”
The Beetlevanias “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
The Rutles “Shangra La”
Chemical Beats “Welcome To The Black Parade”
Todd Rundgren “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
The Beatnix “Stairway To Heaven”
Be Bop Deluxe “Surreal Estate”
Kerry Livgren “Mask of the Great Deceiver”
The Buggles “Vermillion Sands”
Nightwish “The Heart Asks Pleasure First”

hour three

Ian Dury and the Blockheads “Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll”
Madness “One Step Beyond”
Lene Lovich “Lucky Number”
DEVO “Jocko Homo”
ELP “Benny The Bouncer
FFS “Dictator’s Son”
David Bowie “Blackstar”
Transvision Vamp “Velveteen”
Jellyfish “Brighter Day”
Split Enz “Bullet Brain and Cactus Head”
Hazel O’Connor “Writing on the Wall”
Kate Bush “Suspended in Gaffa”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight, Sunday at 8 PM and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different classic episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

 

After RFC, stick around for encores of last week’s episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM  The Swing Shift is an encore of two recent episodes.

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Thursday at 9 AM,  Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursdays and Sundays.

Imma go lay down now.

Monday Morning Art: Channel 7

The first Monday Morning Art of the new year is a modest cheap-marker-on-cheap-paper line drawing.  Based on a photo taken from the gym at The Wit (a very nice hotel in The Loop in Chicago), this is a depiction of the building that houses WLS-TV, Channel 7, in Chicago. It also houses a ton of other stuff (like a very tasty Potbelly restaurant) and I think it’s appeared in Monday Morning Art in the past, only from a much higher angle.  The Wit is basically across the street, a little catty-corner (with the L running between the two buildings).

Anyway, this was drawn using cheap art markers from Five Below (and a straight edge) on some cheap scrap paper, and you’re probably seeing it close to actual size if you’re looking at it on a computer monitor.

This was basically just a finger-limbering exercise because I was out of town for most of the weekend and felt like drawing a bunch of lines and not much else.  It’s closer to math than art, really.

As for the trip, we had to hit over two dozen Walmarts in four states over the last two months, but we finally found Mel’s SpongeBob Squarepants cereal. So the trip was a major success.

If you want to see this image even larger, click HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM we kick off our Christmas programming with Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our Monday night line-up featuring two hours each of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, plus six hours overnight with an assortment of our programming from Haversham Recording Institute.

Sunday Evening Video: The Queen of New Wave Returns

This video originally appeared in this space ten years and one day ago, but it had since been pulled by YouTube.  Now it has returned, so we can restore this post, updated with new details.

Lili-Marlene Premilovich, better known as Lene Lovich, is a true New Wave pioneer and musical treasure. An artist on the legendary Stiff Records label, Lovich blended her extensive art and dance training with Slavic shtick and New Wave inventivness to create a unique body of work. Quite simply, nobody else has a voice like hers.

Born in Detroit, expatriated to Hull, England when she was thirteen, Lovich, before signing to Stiff Records, rubbed shoulders with such random and diverse people as Salvador Dali, Arthur Brown, and French disco star, Cerrone. Her first appearance on record may have been as an audience member on Chuck Berry’s sing-along live recording of “My Ding-A-Ling.”

It was when Lovich started releasing music made with her musical and life partner, Les Chappell, that ears perked up around the world. With a five-octave range and a voice that could range from delicate and operatic to bombastic and powerful, Lovich made a huge mark on the outsider music scene.

It’s been twenty years since her last new  studio album(my review of Shadows and Dust, written for the Gazz.com‘s now-defunct “New Sounds” blog will be restored to PopCult soon), but she has formed a new touring band and was the opening act on the DEVO/B 52s tour last year, which will continue with select dates in 2026 in Europe. She’s also formed a label to reissue her back catalog. You can learn more about that at her website and on her Bandcamp page. The above concert was recorded at Studio 54 in 1981, and features an embryonic Thomas Dolby as one of her keyboardists.

The RFC Flashback: Episode One Hundred Sixty-Eight

This week we go back to September, 2012 for the final of our three “Tribute The To The Troops II” episodes of Radio Free Charleston. This wraps up our three-part special devoted to Tribute To The Troops II, an all-ages, all-day musical event held at The Saint Albans City Park amphitheater for the benefit of The West Virginia National Guard Foundation and The Wounded Warrior Project.

This episode brings you music from In The Company of Wolves, Point of Jerus, Deck of Fools and a very special song from HarraH. We also have a short film about The West Virginia National Guard Foundation narrated by Melanie Larch, with video contributions by Steven Allen Adams and West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

I want to take a moment to thank Dave McClanahan for his audio superheroics on these three episodes of the show. Dave is a friend, a technical genius and an incredible musician going all the way back to the original radio incarnation of Radio Free Charleston. Dave’s band project, The Mad Scientist Club, was one of the most-requested groups on the radio show, and we’re glad to bring you some of their tunes on the new RFC radio show on The AIR.  It was a surprise and a treat to discover that Dave was recording Tribute To The Troops II and I can’t thank him enough for the high-quality board recordings and the ultra-deluxe twenty-track mixes for In The Company of Wolves and Deck of Fools that he was able to fit into his busy schedule.

Playing us out we have our old friends, HarraH, also returning from episode 166, performing a special song written by Dawn Marie Wood. “Too Late” came from the pen and the heart of the lady who conceived Tribute To The Troops, and with her husband, Brad and Wood Boys Music, they helped to pump a lot of life and excitement into the local music scene. These last three shows would not have been possible without them.

This is a bit of a bittersweet show to look at now, because of the recent passing of Lee Harrah and the many life changes so many of us have had since then. It was a real kick to put these together, and I hope you’ve enjoyed watching them again.

On Podcasts and Kidneys

The PopCulteer
January 2, 2026

With the week interrupted by New Year’s Eve and subsequent Day, we have a short column for the first PopCulteer of the new year. There are only two things to tell you about before your humble blogger and his lovely wife depart for a quick trip to Lexington for no particular reason.

Mothman In The Bible Belt

First up, tomorrow night yours truly will be the guest of that Fantastic Buck, Buck Fantastic, on The Mothman In The Bible Belt podcast.

Mothman in the Bible Belt is a West Virginia-based entertainment podcast hosted by charismatic organic farmer and line dance instructor, Buck Fantastic. Sprouted in 2021, the podcast initially focused on social issues, later evolving to encompass the Appalachian music and art scene. New episodes drop every two-weeks.

The wholesome Appalachian podcast is available to stream for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, IHeartRadio, YouTube, Audacy, Deezer, Audible, and Amazon Music.

Buck and I have a rambling conversation about whatever the hell it is I do, and/or have done, for the last four decades or so.

Of note: if my voice sounds a bit off, it’s because I was laying flat on my back on a heating pad during the interview. I’d thrown my back out over Christmas. So it was sort of like laying in a tanning bed and being on a pyschiatrist’s couch at the same time. I had a blast.

This is a great podcast, and it’s a bit surreal for me to be rubbing podcasterly shoulders with Buck’s previous distinguished guests.

Here’s a trailer…

You can hear The Mothman In The Bible Belt podcast where ever you tune in to such things. For more details, check out the website.

Another Friend of PopCult In Need

Last week I told you about GoFundMe campaigns for Brian Diller and Jon Raider’s mother. I have another friend who could use a hand right now.

Michael Tawney, who is known and loved by many in Charleston from his time as the manager of The GameStop in The Charleston Town Center and even moreso as the manage of the Park Place Cinema, as well as his role as the promoter for IWA East Coast(where he is known as “Fattawn”), is currently in end-stage renal failure and is waiting on a kidney transplant.

He’s getting dialysis treatment and carefully being monitored while he awaits a donor kidney, and he could use some financial help.

His brother has organized a GoFundMe to help cover his living expenses, since he can’t work while he’s dealing with this situation, so if you know Michael from IWA EC or Park Place (or GameStop), please consider donating for one of the coolest people I know.

There will be an IWA East Coast benefit show on February 21, at the Koontz Gym in Clendenin. They are still building the card for what promises to be an amazing night of wrestling and fun. You can keep up with all the latest details and find ticket information at the Facebook Event page.

Tawney has been a friend for over twenty years, and is a fixture on the regional wrestling scene. He’s the guy who booked Pat McAfee for his first pro wrestling gig. They even covered this GoFundMe campaign at Fightful Wrestling, one of the top wrestling news sites in the world.

And with that, we wrap up this week’s PopCulteer. The way the calendar falls this year, I’m gonna have to crank out 52 more of these things for 2026. Check back every day for fresh content and all our regular features.

One Last Look At 2025 Before We Flush

What say that, since this is one of the least-read days of they year for PopCult, we take a look back at the damnable collection of odd months that was 2025.

It wasn’t all bad, of course, but the loss of several close friends, coupled with the current cancerous political climate definitely put a damper on things.

This was a year when we said goodbye too soon to Brian Young, Lee Harrah, Steve Fesenmaier, Greg Miller, Non Sport Update, American Science & Surplus, BOOP! The Musical, Fruth Pharmacy, Diamond Previews, several amendments and too many other things to list.

Yet, it was a good year for this blog. In 2025, PopCult had 423 posts. Those posts contained over 235,000 words, the most ever (even counting years where we had close to 600 posts). I can be wordy, sometimes.

There were 45 audio episodes of Radio Free Charleston on our sister internet radio station, The AIR.. Plus we had one video episode.

The AIR also featured close to 100 new episodes of our other original internet radio programs.

PopCult posts were viewed millions of times by a record number of unique visitors. Readership was up 110% over 2024. Listenership at The AIR also more than doubled. I’m pretty sure that PopCult now has more readers than our former home, The Charleston Gazette-Mail (I know that’s not a fair comparison, since their content is behind a paywall, but give a guy a chance to enjoy a small victory). It’s nice that, in our twentieth year, we can say that we have millions of readers. If only I weren’t too lazy to monetize this blog.

I am actually writing this in the late morning of January 1, 2026. I just wasn’t in the mood to write yesterday, and this morning my wife and I slept in, and then got mesmerized by the Twilight Zone marathon, so I got a late start.

To round things out and continue a new tradition, here are my ten favorite header images from the last year…

This STUFF TO DO header from February was adapted from a news photo of efforts to extinguish a house that exploded two blocks from where I live a few years ago.

This RFC header is a digitally-altered photo from The Embassy Suites Hotel in Lexington.

This header, swiped from a post by Bad Spit, on Twitter, just looks cool.

I ran this STUFF TO DO header while Charleston was hosting some kind of bicycle event. It amused me.

I just like the way this header for a review of the Gargon action figure looks.

One of the low-key headers based on photos I took at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum.

One of several cool headers mutated from photos I took at the American Sign Museum in Cinncinnati.

Another Sign Museum shot for STUFF TO DO

Okay, so the phone number is for The White House. Caller ID is more accurate than ever these days.

And finally, a heartwarming image for STUFF TO DO from just a few weeks ago.

That is our quick and half-assed look back at 2025. Check back tomorrow and every day for fresh content and hardcore reporting on whatever the hell it is that we’re supposed to be writing about here.

Happy New Year!

Kill Off 2025 With STUFF TO DO

It’s the last day of a year that is best forgotten, and your humble blogger has still not re-written the boilerplate for this feature, so with a focus on events happening on New Year’s Eve, here’s some cool STUFF TO DO all over the state, noted as briefly as possible.

Keep in mind that Winter weather and drunken revelers may make going out a very poor life choice, so be careful out there, even though it’s supposed to warm up this weekend, maybe. There is no sin in staying at home and watching people’s balls drop on the television.

As always, you should remember that THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST OF EVENTS.  It’s just a starting point, so don’t expect anything comprehensive, and if you feel strongly about me leaving anything out, feel free to mention it in the comments.

We are very happy to remind you that Cristen Michael has created an interactive calendar that is way more comprehensive than this list of STUFF TO DO, and you can find it HERE. Just click on the day and the event and you’ll be whisked away to a page with more details about loads of area events.

Most weekends you can find live music at Taylor Books. There is no cover charge, and Friday and Saturday shows start at 7:30 PM. This weekend they have Bugswrrld on Friday, and Toby Announced on Saturday.

You can find live music in and around town every night of the week. You just have to know where to look.  Keep in mind that all shows are subject to change or be cancelled at the last minute.

Most of the graphics below are for NYE, but the weekend can be loads of fun, too, especially for aficionados of mouth sounds.

Here we go, roughly in order, it’s graphics for local events happening Wednesday night and this weekend that I was able to scrounge up online…

Continue reading

RFC and The Swing Shift Close Out 2025 with NEW Episodes

It is the final Tuesday of 2025, and Tuesday is always a great day to tune into The AIR  with a new episode of Radio Free Charleston to lighten your mood and reassure you that life is worth living. This week we have a new edition of The Swing Shift, too!  Making things even better is the fact that both shows were recorded Monday despite constant interruptions, loud wind, and heavy traffic going right through my yard.  Actually that doesn’t really make it better. I sound like I’m talking a mile a minute to squeeze in the announcing between catastrophes, but I’m trying to be optimistic here. To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

Radio Free Charleston brings you a new show with three full hours of newly-assembled music. We have great new tunes from David Synn (pre-order his new EP tomorrow!), Parry Casto, The Heavy Hitters Band, Heavy Set Paw Paws, Gardenn, The Black Keys, Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess, Men Without Hats, The Settlement, A Different Scene, Moron Police and more…and that’s just in the first hour!

The rest of the show is loaded with tons of great local, independent and just plain cool music, all tossed into our free-format blender, and processed to s smooth consistency.

Of note, David’s tune is a preview of an EP which will go up for pre-order tomorrow. Parry’s song is one of two that benefit recovery programs in the state. The second one will open next week’s show.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page, where available…

RFC V5 253

hour one
David Synn “All of My Heroes Are Dead”
Parry Casto “I Just Want To Be Alive On Christmas Day”
The Heavy Hitters Band “Light Fight”
Jim & The Sea Dragons “Kringle All The Way”
Heavy Set Paw Paws “Commoner Boogie”
Gardenn “I’m HER”
The Black Keys “Down To Nothing”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Rhinoplasty”
Men Without Hats “Run Away”
The Settlement “Riff Destroyer”
Moron Police “Giving Up The Ghost”
A Different Scene “Sounds”

hour two
Stone Ka Tet “Ronin”
Mother Nang “Fuggin'”
They Might Be Giants “Istanbul Not Constantinople (live)”
Jethro Tull “Aqualung (Live)”
Ona “Tornado Rider (live)”
Toyah “Broken Special (live)”
Government Cheese “Cattle Prod (live)”
Dream Theater “Stream Of Consciousness”

hour three
Frank Zappa “The Man From Utopia”
The Heavy Hitters Band “Ornithology (The Story of Icarus)”
Custard Flux “Tomorrowland”
Aliza Hava “The Invitation”
Into The Fog “Sore Loser”
Corduroy Brown “Getting Older”
Julian Lennon “Keep On Searching”
John Radcliff“Look Smart”
Stephanie Adlington “Pick Your Poison”
Todd Burge “This Should’ve Been A Holiday”
Mediogres “Electric Sex”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight, Sunday at 8 PM and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different classic episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

 

After RFC, stick around for encores of last week’s episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM get ready for a new edition of The Swing Shift. This one covers the Swing waterfront and as a bonus, some of the artists in this playlist will also have live links that will take you to pages where you can buy their music.

The Swing Shift 177

Hot Pants & Tony “Everybody Eats When They Come To My House”
Gina Marie & The Golden Bucks “Snake Around”
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies “Thrill Thing”
Katie Melua “Blues In The Night”
Tyler Pedersen “Hamming It Up”
George Benson “Without A Song”
SWR Big Band “St. Thomas”
The Andrews Sisters “Sing Sing Sing”
Gene Krupa & His Orchestra “Drum Boogie (live)”
Tim Timebomb & Friends “Choo Choo Ch’boogie”
Squirrel Nut Zippers “Memphis Exorcism”
Swing Ninjas “My Blue Heaven (live)”
Dave Stuckey & the Hot House Gang “I Never Knew”
Pink Turtle “We Will Rock You”
June Christy “It Don’t Mean a Thing”

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Thursday at 9 AM,  Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursdays and Sundays.

Monday Morning Art: The “L” Bend

Our final piece of art for the year is another sloppy watercolor, this time on a new textured illustration board, depicting a view of Chicago’s famed L tracks as they turn a corner in The Loop.

This is based on a series of photos I took out of the hallway window at The Wit when we were in the Windy City for Mel’s birthday a few weeks ago. My reference pics weren’t great because there were reflections marring all of them, so I had to keep jumping between them to see what stuff looked like. It was pretty dreary and overcast, and that didn’t help matters any. It will be a challenge, but I may try to tighten this one up considerably and maybe try to change the lighting, eliminate the snow and do it in a Hopperesque style in the future.

Or I may just try to get better reference pictures from a slightly different angle and do a whole new painting. Who knows what the future and new year will bring at this point?

If you want to see this image larger, click HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM we kick off our Christmas programming with Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our newish Monday night line-up featuring two hours each of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, plus six hours overnight with an assortment of our programming from Haversham Recording Institute.

« Older posts

© 2026 PopCult

Theme by Anders NorenUp ↑