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List Inconsequential: The Donna Reed Show
It Ain’t Easy Being Reed (or) Oh, Donna! To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Donna Reed Show, a TV milestone only recently released on DVD, Arts Alliance America has put out all 37
Read More »Gardens of the Night
Gardens of the Night Dir: Damian Harris Rating: 3.0 City Lights Pictures 110 Minutes Gardens of the Night is a movie with altruistic intentions that still can’t help but become mired in the exploitative
Read More »DJ/rupture: Uproot
DJ/rupture Uproot Rating: 4.5 Label: The Agriculture Some musicians believe that music should be their only artistic statement. Though notorious grumps like Bob Dylan have loosened up to write memoirs and host radio shows,
Read More »Castanets vs. Ero: Dub Refuge
Castanets vs. Ero Dub Refuge Rating: 3.5 Label: Asthmatic Kitty Unless you’re well-paid, the process of editing music requires a certain kind of unconditional love. It’s a good thing Ero Gray, according to his
Read More »Milk
Milk Dir: Gus Van Sant Rating: 4.0 Focus Features 128 Minutes Real-life American hero Harvey Milk had a dilemma around the time he hit his 40s: though he had a fervent passion to help
Read More »Bin 71: New York, NY
Bin 71 237 Columbus Avenue (at 71st Street), New York, NY 10023 212-362-5466 Tucked among the thriving shops and restaurants on busy Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan is a cozy
Read More »Hipster Thanksgiving
Hipster Stuffing Plane tickets are expensive. I can eat, drink, watch football and get fatter on my own, without losing several hundred dollars. It would be great to celebrate another pseudo-mythical holiday with family,
Read More »Interview: William Elliott Whitmore
After hearing rumors that I was about to interview a man who might not have a cell phone and certainly didn’t have a way to send me an email with an iPhone, I was
Read More »Love Is All: A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
Love is All A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night Rating: 4.5 Label: Whats Your Rupture? Josephine Olausson, the lead vocalist of Love is All, has had some rough times- at least, I
Read More »The End of the World: French Exit
The End of the World French Exit Rating: 3.5 Label: Pretty Activity A snippet of between-song banter (ostensibly from a live show) opens the sophomore release of Brooklyn’s The End of the World. A
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