Vince Ebeir’s new band is called Spylights and their first record is named after Vince’s gift: he’s an Empath. That means Vince feels your pain, but also your pleasure. So be careful what you get up to around him. Vince brings along his guitar player, Roman Duffar, and the guys play two songs off the…

Thomas Cole found America so polarized that he no longer wanted to live here, and moved to India. That was 1969. Thomas stayed in India, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet and Afghanistan for 16 out of the 20 next years where he became what-we-don’t-dare-call a “rug merchant.” Thomas a far more elegant title for that occupation, and…

The only person who showed up to our Halloween Happy Hour in costume is one of two Cajun Jews called Alex who work for Live Nation. The one wearing the bat suit at Wayfare is Alex Rosen, a refugee from Lafayette who now lives in New Orleans and is the Marketing Manager for all the…

Among the many things you could find remarkable about Arwen Podesta – and there are plenty – perhaps the singularly most impressive is the fact there is a part of your body named after her. There is a part of everybody’s body name after her. It’s in your DNA. Arwen was a part of the…

Jose Fernandes grew up under a fascist regime in Portugal. Jose came to Hammond, of all places, on a tennis scholarship, almost 40 years ago. In the interim, between then and the current rise of fascism, Jose has been a stock broker and a door-to-door furniture salesman – the latter for something like 20 years…