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Michael Braithwaite
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The Rumpus Interview with Therese Workman and Tyler Wood of Oh My Goodness
Therese Workman and Tyler Wood talk about growing up in Maine and what it’s like to be DIY in the music industry today.
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The Rumpus Review of Chico and Rita
There are certain places in the world that conjure an almost universal sense of longing; places that seem to carry a palpable sense of themselves in the air, and places whose tumultuous histories have created masses of displaced persons who…
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The Rumpus Review of The Artist
Silent films, like theater, require their audience members to suspend a sense of reality, investing instead in wonder, imagination, and sensory titillation. The greatest films of the silent era were able to transform the dart of an eye, the contortion…
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The Rumpus Review of The Clock
Moms are full of all sorts of pithy sayings that mysteriously trickle down through time. Being an impatient child—who has grown into a reasonably impatient adult—I remember my mother often advising me that “a watched pot never boils,”