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Your Guide to 11 Record Stores in the DC Area

Your Guide to 11 Record Stores in the DC Area

Vinyl sales have rebounded enough that there's still a healthy supply of independent record stores in the Was…

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From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Plus One at an Amish Wedding

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By Pat Padua 
| Spectrum Culture
The straight-to-streaming rom-com market provides something for every circle of hell. Whatever cloying cliché you can imagine has been imagined ad infinitum in varying levels of incompetent, illogically predictable scripts populated by humanoid figurines playing out their courtship with the awkward chemistry of kidnap victims performing for their small-town captors. Only some of this applies to the strangely yet kind of perfectly titled 2022 entry Plus One at an Amish Wedding.
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The Last Viking - Spectrum Culture

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By Pat Padua 
| Spectrum Culture
Is it true, as the animated fable that opens The Last Viking asserts, that, “if everyone is broken, no one is broken?” That’s the timely premise of Anders Thomas Jensen’s latest black comedy. Written and directed by Jensen, the basic conceit, on some level, is a rollicking crowd-pleaser. At its core, though, is a deep concern about the human condition in the 21st century.
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Virginia Dream FC, Where Football Meets Fashion

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By Pat Padua 
| Arlington Magazine
Community This hometown soccer club founded by Washington-Liberty alumna Lucas Mendes is packed with talent—and style. Pat Padua By Pat Padua May 11, 2026 Share Facebook X Pinterest WhatsApp Email Copy URL Virginia Dream FC winger Angel Chavez on the pitch in Falls Church (Photo by Jared Soares) A blur of pink, Angel Chavez is making his inevitable sprint toward the goalposts on his team’s home field at Meridian High School in Falls Church.
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