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Happy Thanksgiving We've prepared a special "witch's brew" of Halloween tricks & treats for you to savor. So enjoy!

Plus, you'll find our usual blend of the greatest songs from seven decades. From Chuck Berry and the Beatles to the most recent music from rock icons like Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones, and Elton John, we strive to provide you with a mix you won't find anywhere else.

This is rock music for grown-ups. As always, if you like what you hear, be sure to tell a friend! 

  • This Day in Rock History - Oct. 30th
    This Day in Rock History - Oct. 30th

    1970: A court in Miami sentenced Doors’ front man Jim Morrison to six months in prison for indecent exposure during a concert in the city that took place in March of the previous year.

    The case was still being appealed when Morrison died the next July. Jim would ultimately receive a posthumous pardon for his conviction.

     

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Join us this Saturday as we play "Halloween's Greatest Hits!"

 

What's more approriate for Halloween than a bat?

Come on. How could anybody else compete wth this?

As we get older, sadly, we can’t eat like we once did and heartburn may become a problem, particularly during the nighttime hours.

The experts say these foods can be part of the problem:

  • Caffeine
  • Citrus
  • Chocolate
  • Tomatoes
  • Spicy Foods
  • Fatty Foods
  • Alcohol
  • Spearmint or Peppermint (Who knew?)

The first rule in relieving the discomfort is: don’t go to bed on a full stomach!

Other things that might help:

  • Lose weight (which eases the pressure on your stomach)
  • Elevate your head – if you can, your head should be about 6 to 8 inched above your body to help prevent reflux
  • Minimize your meals – Try eating smaller portions more frequently
  • If you smoke, stop – tobacco smoke can weaken the gateway between your stomach and esophagus.

GORGON (1964)

We were born too late to experience the great Universal horror films in first run theaters. Instead, we watched them on our local TV station’s “Shock-Horror-Monster-Chiller-Nightmare Theater.” You remember. Those late night weekend shows where the TV weather guy dressed up as a vampire or mad scientist and showed all those great Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi movies that had scared our parents.

In fact, those old black & white monster movies created such a sensation on TV that British movie studio, Hammer Films, made a tidy sum remaking endless variations of “Frankenstein,” “Dracula” and “The Mummy” so we’d have some color horror to see at the drive-in ourselves.

But one of their films featured a totally original monster and is still tremendous fun to watch today, The Gorgon from 1964.

One of the first things that makes this movie fun is the chance to see Christopher Lee play the good guy! He’s Professor Karl Meister, investigating some very strange murders in 1910 in the kind of comic opera German village at the center of every great monster movie.

Peter Cushing gets top billing as Dr. Namaroff, but trust us – this is Lee’s film!

You’ve got victims turning to stone. Sadly, very little of the famous “Hammer cleavage” that kept young boys interested in between the mayhem. And a film that trades on ancient Greek mythology rather than middle European superstitions.

There’s also a refreshing mystery angle to the plot as the title character assumes normal human form during the day, so we’re not sure which of the cast members will be sporting a head full of snakes by the end of the film.

This Halloween, check this one out. It’s from an era when “getting stoned” meant something else altogether!