On this episode of Sordid Tales: The Podcast! we talk to the Queen Bee Alpha Babe of San Diego media--Barbarella - the producer, editor, MC, columnist and evil opposite of Ed Decker. Or, perhaps he is...

Fresh off their European tour with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, we have the band Transfer in the studio! Also another installment of "Drunk Thoughts," "Ask Sordid Tales Your Dumbass Question," and "Th...

On this episode we feature "Lobster" Bob Major - the psychic developing, dead-people-talking, paranormal hypnotherapist extraordinaire - on whom we try to call "bullshit" for his alleged metaphysical ...

On this episode of Sordid Tales: The Podcast! We have Joey Harris - singer, songwriter and guitarist for, among other bands, the legendary Beat Farmers. Joey will play some songs and tell stor...

On this episode of Sordid Tales: The Podcast we have Pony Death Ride! We talk to them a bit about the bizarre manner in which they met and then they play their twisted songs for us. Also, The News wit...

Steve Poltz talks to the gang about his encounter with Elvis Presley, going on an impromptu maritime drug bust with Jewel and the Mexican Federales, and debuts two awesome new songs. Also on this epis...

Featuring special guest, Mojo Nixon; The News with David Patrone, The World's Only Quasi-Reasonable Conservative; Ask Sordid Tales Your Dumbass Question; and one from the Sordid Tales...

The column "America: Love it or Leave it" is discussed; The News with David Patrone: The world's Only Reasonable Conservative; The newbie hosts work out the kinks of recording a podcast by saying goof...

In 2004, 21 Chinese workers drowned at Morecambe Bay in North West England. They were cockle pickers, illegal immigrants who were poorly trained, underpaid and far away from their home in the Fujian province of China. Something about the story struck artist Isaac Julien. He immediately felt compelled to make a kind of tribute or reparation piece about the workers' deaths. "The people had traveled such a far distance to create a better life for themselves," Julien says, sitting in the middle of his resulting nine-screen video and film installation, Ten Thousand Waves, which is currently showing at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's downtown location. "And they came to such sordid ends. I was, in a way, interested in allegorizing the news reports in the poetic sense."...

When most people picture getting a tattoo, they envision a pierced-up, heavily inked dude with a tattoo gun. Sulu'ape Angela Bolson shatters that stereotype. You can find Bolson in a small room at Big City Tattoo in North Park, kneeling on a mat with her clients, strange-looking tools in-hand, with a team of female "stretchers" helping her pull a client's skin taught so she can employ the hand-tap tattoo technique. She learned the traditional art form by apprenticing for a year and a half under a hand-tap master in Western Samoa....