Ya Ho Wha 13 were the band formed out of the pre-dawn practice sessions that served also as morning meditation for the Source Family, the L.A.-area religious sect that ran their own health food restaurant during the ‘70s. Drag City has collected nine unreleased songs for this month’s Magnificence in the Memory. This interview by Dan Collins.

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Well, what to do after dark downtown is an abiding question that ArtWalk answers only one Thursday a month. Part market for recession-wracked artists, part roving singles meat-rack, part experiment in social Darwinian set design, this event now features more music and more public mating rituals than ever, along with an uptick in cops and panhandlers, with the latter looking much better-heeled than the human scarecrows kept penned along the Nickel a few blocks away. I was in work mode, but every other unattached male had his game on, with even the most faux-negligent hipster-dude got up like Prince’s pet horse.

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