“There’s no going back on this one,” announces Shirley Manson on the last track of their new album Beautiful Garbage. For the band who confidently led the post-grunge generation in knee-high boots and ...

Wisconsinite drummer Butch Vig, Nebraskan guitarist Duke Erikson, and Minnesotan guitarist Steve Marker met in the late ’70s in Madison, Wisconsin. Although Erikson and Vig’s bands Spooner and Fire ...

WHEN GARBAGE performed at a packed 9:30 club last month, singer Shirley Manson was her engagingly menacing self. The fiery redhead purposefully prowled the stage in her peekaboo peacock fashion, ...

The street-corner wire bin is on its way out, and its replacement is better in almost every functional way. It stacks for transport as its predecessor did not, and it’s sleek and crisp-looking (for a ...

The city of Zachary announces it has been awarded a Keep Louisiana Beautiful Trash Receptacle grant. Through this initiative, four new “Let Louisiana Shine – Stop Littering” receptacles have been ...

“I’ve just come back from Cambodia with a bunch of dried toads,” declares artist Jerry Swaffield, pretty much by way of introduction. Thirty minutes later, he’s prowling a patch of Bangkok wasteland, ...