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Deenah Vollmer
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Make It, Make It, Don’t Fake It: Trash Humpers
In a lush suburban neighborhood in the South, dogs bark, birds tweet, and the sun shines on basketball hoops hung over powered garage doors. By night, soccer fields and parking lots glow under streetlights, fluorescent crosses illuminate churches, and crickets…
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Down by the River Festival, Berlin
Techno usually reigns at Bar 25’s sprawling riverside club, but last weekend at Berlin’s second annual Down By the River Festival folk music held sway. The festival brought more than twenty-four acts spanning the spectrum of music-made-by-people-with-actual-instruments from traditional singer-songwriters…
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The Rumpus Review of Exit Through the Gift Shop
According to Banksy, his first film, made with footage shot by its subject, Thierry Guetta, is about “how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed.”
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Trust Fund Hotties Fall Short
If you enjoy flipping through the first eighty pages of Vogue, Tanner Hall is the film for you. Evident throughout were the beautiful people, the beautiful clothes, the beautiful places. Less evident was the story. While it bore the trappings…
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Resident Bohemians: Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen
THE POET AND THE LADY OF THE CANYON In 1967, two young Canadian songwriters met at songwriter’s workshop at the Newport Folk Festival, and had a romance. They were both about to become very famous, thanks to Judy Collins, who…