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by alan | Jan 22, 2022 | Winter 2022
In 1969, Jimi Hendrix was held hostage for two days during his so-called “lost weekend.” After his rescue, he was completely unaware that he had been abducted in the first place. There are many things in life that are uncertain: Are we in the last wave of the...
by alan | Jul 26, 2022 | Clarion Rock, Current Issue
The Battle Of Pelusium By Alan Graham The 2nd-century CE writer Polyaenus describes Cambyses II’s approach in his Strategems, which he wrote in the hopes of helping Marcus Aurelius and Verus in their campaigns. Polyaenus recounts how the Egyptians were...
by alan | Jun 9, 2022 | Clarion Rock, Winter 2022
To my great surprise, I have something to report that will make you pleased. If you are like me, and have zero skills when it comes to computers and IPhones, then worry no longer because the great company known as Apple is our saving grace. Recently I have been...
by alan | Apr 23, 2022 | Current Issue, Uncategorized
Une semaine avant d’être retrouvé mort dans sa baignoire à Paris, Jim Morrison nous présentait un Ghost Rock Opera dans lequel le mime mondialement connu Marcel Marseau interprétait un duo avec la célèbre rock star. Les deux icônes étaient vêtues de cuir...
by alan | Apr 16, 2022 | Winter 2022
Yesterday I walked into Garage Bona Forchetta Restaurant in Coronado Ca and about 15 seconds later I heard a sweet voice behind me say “Sir, you dropped this on the patio”. I turned to find a sweet young hostess smiling at me with a little hand held out...
by alan | Apr 16, 2022 | Winter 2022
Shin Matsuo is a high school student and he rides the Amtrak train from Los Angeles to San Diego. He sits in silence as the passengers mill back and forth along the aisles. That silence is shattered by the grinding of wheels against the rails as the car...
by alan | Apr 6, 2022 | Winter 2022
Dr. Debby Jou is a contemporary artist, educator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is well known for her charity work and generosity in helping others. She says her goals are to “spread art with heart, and embrace the world with love”. Dr. Jou holds a...
by alan | Apr 1, 2022 | Clarion Causes, Winter 2022
Att: Corey Menotti Hotel Del Coronado Dear Corey, I would like to thank you most kindly for your efforts concerning the compassionate request for a “last wish” to stay at The Hotel Del Coronado. I was very disappointed to learn that the...
by alan | Mar 21, 2022 | Winter 2022
Frankie Setback And The Ghost Cowboys will appear LIVE at the Biltmore Millennium Hotel Los Angeles Thursday March 24th HIGH NOON -4.pm BOOK /READING PRESS /CONFERENCE/ LIVE PERFORMANCE VIA ZOOM. ...
by alan | Mar 14, 2022 | Winter 2022
When Big Mike Matheney first came to Coronado, I wrote a story about his company Sundance Golf Cart Rentals. At that time he did not have an office in town, So, he was forced to advertise with On-The- Ground- Outreach. He had a workshop in El Cajon and would...
by alan | Mar 8, 2022 | Uncategorized, Winter 2022
The lyrics from “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues written by: BOB DYLAN* bounced off the walls of Union Station in downtown Los Angeles California, it is 5 am and I am about to ride the rails to San Diego. I put my luggage down and turned to look at the train...
by alan | Feb 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Joey DTLA is a great restaurant to have lunch or dinner if you are in downtown Los Angeles. A cold beer in an elegant glass, some delicious wings, topped of with hot apple pie and ice cream is my favorite lunch and I am never, ever disappointed. GM Brendan...
by alan | Feb 24, 2022 | Winter 2022
by alan | Feb 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Lizard King- Blue Iguana Cigar. Jim Morrison knew how to thoroughly enjoy smoking a fine cigar, to him it was a sacred ancient ritual, one to be savored and never rushed. He engaged with many of his heroes in the music industry especially one of his main mentors BB...
by alan | Feb 19, 2022 | Winter 2022
Owner’s Rep. & GM, Asset Management Millennium Biltmore Los Angeles, Biltmore Tower & Court, Mr Jimmy Wu is one cool dude. Whenever I am in LA, I stay at his hotel, which I regard as my second home and that is no exaggeration. Wise eyes and warm hands, these...
by alan | Feb 13, 2022 | Winter 2022
Sea anemones are small marine animals with a tubular body and circles of tentacles. Members of the coelenterate phylum, they are different from sea urchins which have a hard shell and long spines. Armed with stinging cells, the tentacles allow the anemone to paralyze...
by alan | Feb 8, 2022 | Winter 2022
Phil Dietz is a weasel who dumps bad candy into San Diego retail stores and restaurants, and he does so knowing full well that some of his products are inferior. I spoke with this weasel about it twice and each time he made excuses and apologies but went right on...
by alan | Feb 2, 2022 | Winter 2022
Association of Belgian Publishers (ADEB) is a non-profit organization that groups together Belgian professional publishers and distributors of French-language publications, whatever the medium. ADEB works as the spokesperson of these professions. The publishing house...
by alan | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized, Winter 2022
Known to locals as The Cazzy, the area runs from the Dingle to Otterspool and over the last 200 years has undergone huge change. From the 19th century as a beauty spot depicted in poetry, industrialisation, rescued for recreation in the 1980s, a period of neglect and...
by alan | Feb 1, 2022 | Uncategorized, Winter 2022
They are both brilliant writers, one is Eric Neirynck a prolific author. The other is Gorian Delpâture a Belgian Doors specialist. He wrote the Abécédoors, translated the novel by Ray Manzarek, and regularly writes articles for the Belgian press, radio and...
by alan | Jan 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Je me rappelle aussi Jim Morrison A.R. Graham. French Translation by: Gorian Delpature. Extrait de : Je me souviens aussi de Jim Morrison Voici un noble cœur qui se brise. Bonne nuit, doux prince ; Que des nuées d’anges te bercent de leurs chants. Hamlet, acte V...
by alan | Jan 31, 2022 | Winter 2022
If a ragman had a hard day, he would say “I pushed my cart up hill and down dale all day long and never found even a feather”. Some days it would rain and yet he still had to go and try to find some rags to pay for the rental of the handcart and the cups...
by alan | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorized, Winter 2022
Spike Milligan was a great irish poet, writer and artist who even he was an active musician, he wrote many good famous poems considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. His poetry has been described by comedian Stephen Fry as absolutely immortal—greatly in...
by alan | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorized, Winter 2022
Today I spoke with a young man who is a well respected radio presenter in Liverpool England. His biography below tells of a jovial and light hearted fellow eager to stimulate his listeners. However, beneath the surface he is quite deep, indeed a very serious...
by alan | Jan 23, 2022 | Winter 2022
Born just outside Paris in 1977, at the age of seven Baptiste Ibar immigrated with his family to the U.S. In response to linguistic and environmental difficulties, he started communicating through drawings. While growing up in the confines of NYC’s white suburbs,...
by alan | Jan 23, 2022 | Winter 2022
The island is also where Lambert Simner, the young son of an Oxford merchant, landed in June 1487, claiming to be a legitimate heir to the army of mercenaries and the throne of England. He marched to London, was soon defeated by Henry VII, and rolled up...
by alan | Jan 23, 2022 | Winter 2022
Editorial: Fifty years after his death, Gorian Delpâture takes us to the most intimate, the most inaccessible place of the artist Jim Morrison: the poet’s psyche. We discover – through a text which is also a literary game sprinkled with quotes from Morrison’s...
by alan | Jan 7, 2022 | Winter 2022
‘Ghost’ orchid that grows in the dark among new plant finds Hundreds of new species include pink voodoo lily and an ylang-ylang tree named after Leonardo DiCaprio. A ghost orchid that grows in complete darkness, an insect-trapping tobacco plant and an “exploding...
by alan | Dec 31, 2021 | Winter 2022
When they closed down Coronado’s beloved five and dime store Coro-Mart, the whole town mourned collectively. Gone were those halcyon days soon to be replaced by the clinical drug stores like Walgreens. For almost three decades, she sat in a state of decay which...
by alan | Dec 23, 2021 | Autumn 2021
Mr Bobby Blue was a master toy maker and his daughter Little Cashi True Blue was the apple of her Papa’s eye. Cashi Blue loves to play basketball and she also loves the color blue. Not just any old shade of blue, but that of the beautiful blue of the sky. Her...
by alan | Dec 22, 2021 | Autumn 2021
When I say “my Union Bank, I mean that I feel like I am at home with family. The staff lead by Vice President and branch manager Rudy Maldonado includes Assistant Vice President and Senior relationship Banker ll Ali Yeke, Michael Brown Assistant Branch...
by alan | Dec 18, 2021 | Autumn 2021
I love everything about the Uber platform. It is the absolute essence of the Great American en·tre·pre·neur·i·al spirit. Every King in his own castle, no bosses, no deadlines, no interference, save for the guiding hand of the miraculous function...
by alan | Dec 13, 2021 | Autumn 2021
Once again I took the Amtrak train to Los Angeles from San Diego. This trip was a “BAD TRIP”. It started to go wrong when I met the conductor Kat Williams, one of the most repulsive persons I have ever encountered. I showed her the article I had written...
by alan | Dec 6, 2021 | Autumn 2021
Rozanne “Rozi” Lozano is an Elite Wardrobe Stylist in Men’s Clothing. She has worked for Nordstrom for thirty years. I went there to buy a suit, some shirts, socks, underwear, and a few other items. Lucky for me that I had the good fortune to find...
by alan | Sep 24, 2010 | Autumn 2021, Premier Issue
By Kimberley Graham Meet Peter Hall, the “Coronado Artiste”. He is a local artist whose passion is painting watercolors. Many Coronadans as well as the flocks of tourists who don our shores are familiar with this talented man as he has been a staple to the community...
by alan | Nov 26, 2021 | Autumn 2021, Clarion Rock
Jim Morrison: Back to the Sixties, Darkly : Ultimate bad boy’s life story THE DOORS comes to the big screen Danny Sugerman thought that then-hot disco king John Travolta might make a good Morrison. So he introduced him to the Doors–and he and Manzarek...
by alan | Nov 26, 2021 | Autumn 2021, Clarion Rock
In 1968 Admiral Morrison was Commander In Chief of Carrier Division Nine fighting the war in Vietnam. Clara Morrison was visiting the far east at the time and sent back gifts to us including a couple of Happi Coats, I gave one (pictured above) to Lee and we both wore...
by alan | Nov 23, 2021 | Clarion Causes, Clarion Rock
Dateline 1980: Like many of us, I got hip to The Doors after reading, then rereading, No One Here, Gets Out Alive. 1983: My first visit to LA, my hostess seems quite perplexed that the first thing I want to see is a small motel on the corner of La Cienega and...
by alan | Nov 20, 2021 | Autumn 2021, Clarion Causes
All aboard! Train driver Mike Yacovetti eases his train gently out of Union station San Diego for a trip to Los Angeles Ca. The conductor C J Hardman and his crew, Oscar Olivas, Scott Wasilevich, Luis Rodrigues, and Paul Wilson, are all about to take me on a magic...
by alan | Nov 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Meeting the Lizard King Admiral Morrison, accompanied by his wife, Clara, had driven to Dulles Airport to pick up their daughter, Anne, her husband, Alan Graham, myself, who they hadn’t seen since England, and our new grandchild, Dylan. For six weeks, we newlyweds...
by alan | Nov 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
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by David LeVine | Nov 2, 2021 | Autumn 2021
by alan | Oct 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Unlike the fictional Hotel California from the hit song by the Eagles, where all manner of strange guests stayed, The Motel Alta Cienega had only on famous guest and that was Jim Morrison. THE ALTA CIENEGA HOTEL IS seemingly run-of-the-mill for West Hollywood;...
by alan | Oct 24, 2021 | Autumn 2021, Clarion Rock
I went to Los Angeles for a family reunion and to play a couple of gigs with my band The Ghost Cowboys. My black Stetson hat got beat up in my suitcase and it needed some tender loving care so I want to the nearest Hatter called Baron Hats in downtown LA. Mark...
by alan | Oct 16, 2021 | Autumn 2021, Clarion Rock
Excerpted from: I Remember Jim Morrison. By: Alan Graham. Countless stories, many of them outrageous, have grown up over the years regarding the reason or reasons why Jim claimed, in his official Elektra publicity biography, that his parents and siblings were...
by alan | Sep 30, 2017 | Autumn 2021, Clarion Rock, Winter 2022
Doors legend Jim Morrison’s Scottish heritage uncovered as former brother-in-law reveals rock star’s striking resemblance to great-great-grandad The American Poet’s family tree can be traced back to the Outer Hebrides in the 18th century. Join...
by alan | Sep 4, 2017 | Clarion Causes
Hello, I am Meredith, a registered nurse, and a health writer. The reason why I am contacting you is that I came across your site recently while doing some research about depression. The article which I am referring to is this one here: Anxiety Myths I have...
by alan | Sep 3, 2017 | Clarion Rock
Doors legend Jim Morrison’s Scottish heritage uncovered as former brother-in-law reveals rock star’s striking resemblance to great-great-grandad The American Poet’s family tree can be traced back to the Outer Hebrides in the 18th century As the lead...
by alan | May 31, 2017 | Clarion Causes
#1. brooklyn botanic garden Size: 52 acres Location: Brooklyn, New York Website: https://www.bbg.org/ Known for: Its efforts to promote green space in urban areas Work began on Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1897, with 39 acres set aside for the urban green space. The...
by alan | Apr 12, 2017 | Clarion Causes
This dolphins turned up off Sennen Cove Cornwall England One of the dolphins leaps clear of the sea. Picture: Malcolm BarradellCommon dolphins are one of four species regular seen around the Cornish coast. In recent weeks, pods of up to 150 individuals have been...
by alan | Mar 26, 2017 | Clarion Causes, Current Issue
Your Dog’s Ability To See Ultraviolet Light Let’s Them See What You Can’t While this supercharged nose can be used to help out humans, dogs also take advantage of this power for less heroic purposes. Have you ever come home from the grocery store with one of your...
by alan | Sep 29, 2016 | Clarion Causes
“dogs never bite me, just humans”
by alan | Sep 28, 2016 | Clarion Rock
Nina Odele AKA Lynne Harpst 100-Year-Old Theater Is Now A Bookstore And It’s Spectacular When I die, you can just bury me here…. For the girl whose dream in life is to have an exact replica of the “Beauty and the Beast” library in her house, visiting this bookstore...
by alan | Sep 25, 2016 | Clarion Causes
Colonel Mad Mike Hoare Michael Thomas Bernard Hoare, better known to the world as “Mad Mike”, was born in India in 1919. He spent his early days in India and was educated in England, but his blood was Irish. During World War 2 he served initially in the London Irish...
by alan | Sep 23, 2016 | Clarion Causes
Port Removes Debris from Former A-8 Anchorage Boats, tires, batteries, metal containers, engines, and other debris are being pulled to the surface in South San Diego Bay, thanks to the efforts of the Port of San Diego. An estimated 50 tons of debris from the bottom of...
by alan | Sep 18, 2016 | Clarion Rock
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969 I’m a resident of a city They’ve just picked me to play the Prince of Denmark Poor Ophelia All those ghosts he never saw Floating to doom On an iron candle Come back, brave warrior Do the dive On...
by alan | Sep 11, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Uncategorized
by alan | Sep 14, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Rock
UPDATED: November 2021 I went to see my beloved Angels Flight in downtown Los Angeles last week and much to my disappointment and sadness it was showing signs of neglect. I called a fellow by the name of Gary Hall who is the General Manager for the project and...
by alan | Sep 13, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Rock
by alan | Sep 11, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Uncategorized
Out of the vastness of the Los Angeles Forum, its 18,000 seats filled on a December Saturday night with the cream of LA’s teenybopper set, came the insolent cry. The Doors didn’t want to do their 1967 hit; not only had they just finished their first...
by alan | Sep 11, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Uncategorized
The Doors’ Royalties Never Seem To Burn Out 43 Years after Jim Morrison’s Death Lizard king’s last living heir is 90 years old now, reopening questions of who will eventually inherit his image and share of a musical dynasty that currently generates millions of dollars...
by alan | Sep 7, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Rock, Uncategorized
We ran this story back in 2010 and much to my delight. Coronado’s who have left here never to return still read about the way we lived. As you will read in the story and the post’s and comments section, friends are still trying to locate each other to...
by alan | Sep 3, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Rock, Uncategorized
The Night Of The Lizard King A Ghost Rock Opera in three acts Written By: Alan Graham ACT I SCENE I. Pacific ocean Dec 7th 1941 Enter Admiral Morrison...
by alan | Sep 1, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Causes, Uncategorized
Florence Foster Jenkins, born Nascina Florence Foster (July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944), was an American socialite and amateur soprano who was known and mocked for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. Despite (or perhaps due to) her...
by alan | Sep 1, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Causes
One of the most poignant lines from the old country song “Old dogs and Children and Watermelon Wine” by Tom T. Hall song...
by alan | Aug 31, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Causes
Showing regret for making the wrong decision is no longer a behavioral trait exclusive to humans, as rats too feel sorry for not making the right choice, a new study suggests. As part of the study, researchers conducted a task named “Restaurant Row,” in which they...
by alan | Aug 31, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Causes
An Editorial By: Alan Graham Recently I bought some sweat pants and I chose NIKE only because they were on sale, a great deal I thought until that is, a friend said “You bought NIKE ?”. And why not? said I. My friend looked at...
by alan | Sep 26, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Causes
My own medical report By. Alan Graham. If you had a heart attack in the 1950s, the average doctor was ill equipped treat it. Back then, doctors knew very little about how to treat heart attacks and as a consequence, could do very little to save patients lives....
by alan | Aug 15, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Causes
Freevill (to Franceschina): Go; y’are grown a punk rampant. If your only exposure to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is the 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film version, then you have been deceived! The language in the film is not 100% Shakespearean. In the...
by alan | Aug 15, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Uncategorized
John Clare was born into a peasant family in Helpston, England. Although he was the son of illiterate parents, Clare received some formal schooling. While earning money through such manual labor as ploughing and threshing, he published several volumes of poetry,...
by alan | Aug 15, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Uncategorized
John Donne’s standing as a great English poet, and one of the greatest writers of English prose, is now assured. However, it has been confirmed only in the early 20th century. The history of Donne’s reputation is the most remarkable of any major writer in...
by alan | Aug 14, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Rock
by alan | Aug 14, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Causes
Henri Michaux died in Paris in 1984 at the age of 85. Michaux is a poet of unique style, one that is particularly difficult to pinpoint. He most closely resembles the surrealists, but cannot even accurately be grouped with them. Frederic Sepher pointed out that much...
by alan | Aug 13, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Rock
It is my honor and privilege to present Alfred Corn, the great American poet and essayist. Mr Corn was asked by J.D.M.P.S to write a poem in remembrance of Jim Morrison and we are delighted with his submission. The true Jim Morrison fan has read every single word of...
by alan | Aug 12, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Rock
MORRISON HOTEL/Hard Rock Cafe by The Doors (1970/Electra Records, NY). The album’s front and back covers, as photographed on December 17th, 1969 in Los Angeles by Henry Diltz with art direction by Gary Burden. Here’s the front cover of the album, the...
by alan | Aug 7, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Rock
Jim Morrison (1943-1971) was one of the most educated and well-read poets of his time. He was interested in Greek drama and Artaud theater and just the theater concept in itself. A born poet, signer and actor Morrison managed to reveal his talents while working as a...
by alan | Aug 6, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Uncategorized
Take a trip down memory lane with Coronado Rock-n-Roll archivist John Moore. SOURCES The San Diego Concert Archive was created through extensive research of the following newspapers, fanzines and weekly periodicals: The San Diego Door/Teaspoon, The San Diego Union,...
by alan | Aug 4, 2016 | Clarion Rock, Summer 2016
by alan | Aug 4, 2016 | Clarion Rock, Summer 2016, Uncategorized
“Life isn’t how to survive the storm, it’s about how to dance in the rain.”
by alan | Aug 4, 2016 | Clarion Rock, Summer 2016
INTRODUCING CLAUDIO PARANTELA
by alan | Jul 31, 2016 | Clarion Rock, Summer 2016
THE POET BEHIND THE DOORS: JIM MORRISON’S POETRY AND THE 1960S COUNTERCULUTRAL MOVEMENT Steven Andrew Erkel, B.A. Thesis Advisor: Ricardo L. Ortiz, Ph.D ABSTRACT While there has been a wealth of literature on Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the Doors, little work has...
by alan | Jul 31, 2016 | Clarion Rock, Summer 2016
A Poison Tree BY WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I waterd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears: And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft...
by alan | Jul 29, 2016 | Clarion Causes, Summer 2016
BY EDGAR ALLEN POE January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently...
by alan | Jul 24, 2016 | Clarion Rock, Summer 2016
Jazz got into poet Michael C. Ford’s blood at an early age and it’s been flowing there ever since. The 43-year-old Chicago native recalls listening to singer June Christy on the radio at age 9, and standing outside Zardi’s at 12, hearing “brass...
by alan | Jul 20, 2016 | Clarion Rock, Summer 2016
If you’ve ever been driving along the M57 and noticed ‘The Pies The Pies’ written on a motorway bridge, you were probably a bit confused (and hungry. ) But 30 years after their name first started appearing on motorway bridges all around the north...
by alan | Jul 16, 2016 | Clarion Rock, Summer 2016, Uncategorized
A Play in three acts’ Act 1. Scene One. The deck of an American world war two aircraft carrier The Bon Homme Richard (Bonnie Dick). The heavily decorated ships Captain stands alone looking out at a tempest tossed ocean as the wind, rain, and lightening...
by alan | Jul 15, 2016 | Clarion Causes, Summer 2016, Uncategorized
What if every single minute of your day was knowing that you were in grave danger from someone who wanted to kill you. Every time you left your house for work that you may not come home, and that the people you love, and who love you, will never get to see you ever...
by alan | Jun 15, 2016 | Summer 2016, Uncategorized
By: Alan Graham One of the most tragic stories concerning intimacy in humans is the forlorn tale of sadness concerning the lack of such between Kenneth Grahame the writer of Wind in the Willows, and his son Alistair. All the gold on earth cannot bring joy if that...
by alan | Jun 13, 2016 | Clarion Causes, Summer 2016
By: Alan Graham. One of the most tragic stories about intimacy in humans, is the forlorn tale of sadness concerning the lack of such between Kenneth Grahame the writer of Wind in the Willows, and his son Alister. All the gold on earth cannot bring joy if that...
by alan | Jun 13, 2016 | Clarion Causes, Summer 2016
A twelve part series written by: Alan Graham Part One: Flash Inspired by his own bedtime stories which he told to his son, Kenneth Grahame published the classic book of children’s stories. One of the most beloved names in English literature, the author of The...
by alan | May 14, 2016 | Clarion Rock, Summer 2016
‘Extremely rare’: A first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Books specialist Francis Wahlgren on a remarkable true first edition published in 1865 — one of only 23 surviving copies ‘This is a true first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,’ says...
by alan | May 14, 2016 | Clarion Causes, Summer 2016
By Alan Graham On Friday May 13th 2016 the world focused it’s attention on the city of Coronado California. Sacred Heart catholic church live streamed the mass joining the entire world’s news networks as they covered the awesome but bittersweet funeral...
by alan | May 14, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Clarion Causes, Uncategorized
In the early 20th century, the German biochemist Otto Warburg believed that tumors could be treated by disrupting their source of energy. His idea was dismissed for decades — until now. The story of modern cancer research begins, somewhat improbably, with the sea...
by alan | Sep 11, 2016 | Clarion Autumn 2016, Uncategorized
OLD SCHOOL COOL
by alan | May 7, 2016 | Clarion Rock, Summer 2016
Tuesday, May 03, 2016 11:03AM MALIBU, Calif. (KABC) — Public access to a popular hiking destination known as the Jim Morrison Cave has been closed after California State Parks officials said the graffiti is out of control. The Corral Canyon Cave is deep in...
by alan | May 7, 2016 | Clarion Rock, Summer 2016, Uncategorized
Kelly’s mother picked up the phone for the fifth time that night. It was for sixteen-year-old Kelly. “Who’s speaking?” the mother asked. “Eddie,” the boy answered. “I’ve got it,” Kelly shouted. When Kelly hung up...
by alan | May 5, 2016 | Clarion Rock, Summer 2016
By : Alan Graham Dead Good In Liverpoolease the phrase “Dedd Gudd” means exceptionally good. Jim Morrison was Dedd Gudd, for sure, but he was also Dedd Gudd in a different way. Listening to the Doors music is “Dedd Gudd,” but when people in the music industry say it,...
by alan | Apr 27, 2016 | Clarion Causes, Summer 2016
A horse clipper has become a UK sensation because of her serious horse clipping skills. She trims complex medieval designs into the animals for her clients. And the horses she works on always look fabulous: Melody Hames, 27, began clipping her own pet pony at the...
by alan | Apr 18, 2016 | Clarion Causes, Summer 2016
Lowell Senior Panhandling To Help Pay Way To Medical School GoFundMe, Emily Stutz of Lowell. LOWELL (CBS) – A Lowell teenager is hoping to help raise money for medical school in an unorthodox way – panhandling. Eighteen-year-old Emily Stutz started an online...
