Digging Up the Dirt
Your hometown can leap out and grab you at the oddest of times. In this case, Isla Vista leapt out of the carpet backstage at the El Rey during the penultimate Murder City Devils' Los Angeles gig.
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Your hometown can leap out and grab you at the oddest of times. In this case, Isla Vista leapt out of the carpet backstage at the El Rey during the penultimate Murder City Devils' Los Angeles gig.
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Spanning some 40 years, from post-World War II through the early '90s, "A Beautiful Mind" is a sugar-coated bio-pic/period piece about the mental anguish of theoretical mathematician John Nash (Russel...
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"The Wide Blue Road" is a film about a town of fishermen in Italy in the midst of a post-World War II economic slump
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Hollywood loves Americans for the same reason the rest of the world hates us: We are fast food-eating, carbonated beverage-drinking, pleasure-seeking layabouts with little ambition other than to maint...
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Who is that substitute pimp charging out of the Motor City with an army of what appears to be moonshine-slammin' Metallica fans? It's Kid Rock and the Twisted Brown Trucker Band.
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Champagne Kiss is the latest offering from Michelle Maskovich and Russell White, the motivating forces behind Moog-happy bands The Shortwave Channel and Camera Obscura.
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Since 1981, Laurie Anderson has been one of the biggest avant-garde spoken word and experimental rock singers/songwriters to hit the mainstream American music scene.
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The people at Nude Recordings have put together a compilation that made me wet my bed. Last night I dreamt I was stranded on a deserted island, making love to my dream girl.
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Orange County, the county, is nondescript. It's somewhere you pass through on your way to somewhere more exciting. Often pleasant, but not much to challenge or offend you.
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The Sherwood Players, an independent student-run theater group on campus, takes a look at the Vietnam War through the eyes of men who were there in their latest production.
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In 1995, when Brent Meeske decided to make a feature-length documentary, he really had only one format option within his price range: a small, first-generation, digital-eight camera.
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"Here is New York" - the Santa Monica exhibition of over 300 photos thematically centered on the events of Sept. 11 - is drawing so well that gallery organizers want to push the early Dec. 8 closing d...
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The buildup for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" resembled the sort of drama and fanfare reserved for royal weddings and papal appointments.
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While it seems at first glance that a pop sensibility has eaten up and regurgitated another talent for blind-baby-bird-public consumption, there are some really great tracks hidden in This Way.
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The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording, the first issue of John Coltrane's final captured live performance, reaches an ecstatic boiling point in the free jazz movement.
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