Call it a near-flashback. Sitting at Anaheim’s Honda Center, I felt like a teenager in New Zealand watching Backstreet Boys’ “Into the Millennium” tour on a VHS mailed to me by an American pen pal.
The time: Memorial Day Weekend, 1999. The place: The Safeway on Euclid Avenue. I think it was called SuperAmerica back then, but my recall for convenience store names isn’t what it used to be. Waiting ...