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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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No New York — A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene: by Adele Bertei

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By Pat Padua Verified
| Spectrum Culture Verified
Imagine a world where Lydia Lunch and Madonna are around the corner from each other –culturally and geographically. That’s the world Adele Bertie so vividly documents in her sprawling rock ‘n’ roll memoir No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene. You don’t need to know anything about the explosive, short-lived avant-punk subgenre in which Bertie cut her creative teeth, though familiarity with the ribald cast of characters from James White to Madge herself helps.
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Letterboxd — Your life in film

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By Pat Padua Verified, Michael Feifer
| Letterboxd
A special train wreck with a lead performance so terrible you can’t look away. Imagine a more coherent David DeCoteau but with different signature mistakes (it’s fascinating how badly *parking* scenes are set up). And that song, which apparently *isn’t* AI (unlike the family photos) but is credited to four different writers. I’m a little bit in awe at the new kind of badness this has given us.
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Oeuvre: Ozu: Days of Youth

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By Pat Padua Verified
| Spectrum Culture Verified
Yasujiro Ozu is known as a director of the most somber domestic dramas; the key line from his most celebrated film, Tokyo Story may be, “Isn’t life disappointing?” Yet most of his early silents were comedies, like his earliest surviving feature, the 1929 film Days of Youth, made when Ozu was 25 years old.
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