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Bob Dylan
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Go: Where to Go, What to Do & Why
Thirteen years ago this week, I was writing my debut column for the launch edition of SCOPE magazine, arguably the valley's first alternative newspaper. At the time, local bands (Mark Huff, the Opera Beggars) and the local music scene were strong enough to warrant a band feature every issue. The nightclub scene wasn't, though Ken Jordan and "Scottee X"--their move to L.A. to form the internationally renowned Crystal Method years away--were DJing rave nights at a University District club called Brewsters.
Squeaky clean Green Valley was cultivating a reputation as the valley's cultural heart with art fairs, coffeehouses, bookstores and public art--notable in a city whose first Starbucks, first Borders and First Friday were still years away. Hair salons, locally owned record stores, head shops and vintage clothing boutiques made up the bulk of the (admittedly thin) advertising. Writers were found in record store employees, radio DJs, students--anyone who could string words together in a semi-journalistic, much more colorful manner than that of the staid dailies. The paper was a libertarian/culture dog upstart lashed together by too-few energetic souls, and looked everything like it.
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Event Spotlight
Club Events
• DJ SugarCube, drummer Danny de los Rayos. $20, local women free. 10p.-6a. Thu.-Sun. @ 375 Supper Club Lounge
• Streetlight Manifesto, Voodoo Glow Skulls, MU330, Deadball 38, March 6. @ Jillian's
• 4p. daily. Mud wrestling, Wed. Line dance lessons, 7:30p. Thu. Bikini bull riding, midnight Fri. and Sat. Karaoke, 9p. Sun. No cover. @ Gilley's (In the New Frontier)
The Joint
• March 13, 8p.: Duran Duran
Aladdin Theatre
• March 19, 8p.: Bob Dylan, $55-$125
MGM Grand Garden
• April 2, 8p.: Rod Stewart, $50-$150
For more event information, see our
A/E calendar.
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