Catherine is on the run from a dangerous situation back home in the USA. She escapes to Guadalajara where she meets Maria Elena who is another woman in danger. The two of them try to save each other from the different men pursuing each of them. This is "The Woman on the Bridge" - an audio novel.

Catherine is on the run from a dangerous situation back home in the USA. She escapes to Guadalajara where she meets Maria Elena who is another woman in danger. The two of them try to save each other from the different men pursuing each of them. This is "The Woman on the Bridge" - an audio novel.

Catherine is on the run from a dangerous situation back home in the USA. She escapes to Guadalajara where she meets Maria Elena who is another woman in danger. The two of them try to save each other from the different men pursuing each of them. This is "The Woman on the Bridge" - an audio novel.

You may or may not know that from the summer of 1979 through to the summer of 1981 Bob Dylan released three Gospel albums. Right in the time of musical advances like post-punk, goth, industrial, and hip-hop Bob Dylan went back to one of the original sources of this thing called rock n' roll. Straight up Christian songs from Dylan were not what audiences were looking for at the time. And yet he did his thing, as he always does, regardless of the complaints of the crowd.

Here we explore these three albums and find some truly inspired tracks. You can judge for yourself whether these records hold up or not. Let's have Mr. Bob Dylan take us to church.

This is a celebration of those two wonderful film critics that went from rivals to partners. Siskel and Ebert was a movie review show unlike any other. These two journalists passionately debated the merits of every kind of film you can possibly imagine. Their show ran from 1975-1999 and what a glorious half hour it was.

I learned about the movies, how to engage in sincere debate, and that cinema is connected to everything from to politics to religion to philosophy to psychology. These two men made me think but they also made me laugh...a lot.

So here is a celebration of the kind of television that doesn't really exist anymore. Let's enter into the world of Siskel and Ebert.

These days The Trace is primarily about movies but I do like to mix it up ocassionaly with a focus on music. In this case it's an episode devoted to "The Father of Christian Rock" Larry Norman. This guy lived a strange life and remains an iconoclast after his death in 2008. Here is your chance to get an overview of the life, times, and music of this wild character.

This episode is goes out to my parents who played me Norman's music since birth and also to my friend Bob Enslow who I've been trying to convert to Larry's work for years.

Let's go back in time to the late-60's and trace the myth of the one of a kind Larry Norman.

This episode goes out to my dear friend Arielle Heighton! She requested "Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me" which is certainly an intimidating film to talk about but also one of my very favorites.

I re-watched both the movie plus "The Return" in prep for the episode. The other title here could be "The Passion of Laura". Let's get into it.

And The Trace is back!

This episode goes out to my teenage son Dylan. He specifically requested on episode on the 2013 apocalyptic comedy "This is the End". Los Angeles, movie stars, weed, demon possession, and non-sensical attempts at understanding eschatology. The movie is a blast.

It's a pleasure to watch a raunchy comedy like this when looking into the ideology behind the jokes. And this movie actually does have a perspective about morality, friendship, and the temptation towards egoism in Hollywood.

To quote Craig Robinson, "Welcome to heaven motherfuckers".

*the episode begins and ends with tracks by Larry Norman. The songs are "I Wish We'd All Been Ready" and "Nightmare #71".