There is a kind of sound that delivers you back to a place and time that you loved — or that you imagine you would have loved if given the opportunity. Ersi Arviz
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By the third day, we were knocked out, loaded. Hungover, weary, wandering the festival grounds like lethargic lemmings, queuing in lines off instinct, jostled, ag
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Last month, the first installment in Moving Arts Theater’s monthly discussion program, “The War Plays Project,” consisted mostly of local writers who
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At last night's cool Filter party at the Corona Yacht Club, I ran into sculptor Christopher Janney, whose Sonic Forest installation will once again appear as par
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Tuesday was Ray Turner’s day in court, although he elected not to take the witness stand on his own behalf. Turner, the phone guy” co-defendant in the Anthony Pe
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Tall, striking, and as piercingly eloquent as ever when addressing throngs of dedicated supporters, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is back at the top of a massive str
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Last night I was “taking a meeting” at the fancy ass Bowery Hotel, just down the street from legendary scum pit venue of punk rock lore, CBGBs. Scratch
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Below: snapshot of Grizzly Bear founder Ed Droste “getting crunk” — yes, that's a quote — in the parking lot prior to their appearance at
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Let's be real for a moment–I don't know much about the sound of the underground Lagos Dance Floor during the years 1974-1979. The truth is those y
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The Syrian restaurant Sham comes alive on Sundays at noon, still early enough to catch crunchy, spice-crusted disks of warm za’atar bread from the Arab brunch men
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I HAVE A T-SHIRT that says, I Hate Your Children.” My wife gave it to me for Christmas as a way, I suppose, to discourage other people — including some of our c
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There's a reward at the end of this post for those of you who read it, by the way.
There are a few words that you don't hear in mixed company, and two of the
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