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DC Punk for Everyone

  • Liz Wood
  • July 28, 2016
Dischord Records has made its entire discography available on Bandcamp, meaning that anyone can immediately become an expert on what it took many of us at least a full year of high…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 26, 2016
Independent bookstores are thriving because many are adapting technology and learning how to better serve their local community. A stunning new bookstore has opened in eastern China with dazzling displays…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 8, 2016
LAist takes readers inside Los Angeles’s iconic The Last Bookstore, a “sprawling temple” of books, and talks with owner Josh Spencer. A Hong Kong bookstore, one that hasn’t been closed…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 23, 2016
Chicago’s Wicker Park has been gentrifying, but Quimby’s, a quirky indie bookstore, remains a haven for alt lit. Amazon probably doesn’t care whether customers buy anything from its physical stores. The New…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 2, 2016
One Moore Books in Monrovia, Liberia, plans on publishing books aimed at children. The shop was founded by thirty-year-old Wayétu Moore, who fled Liberia as a refugee at the age…
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District of Books

  • Stephanie Bento
  • December 9, 2015
The American city that spends the most money on books, magazines, and newspapers—Washington, DC—will soon be left without any chain bookstores. Melville House reports that as of Dec. 31, 2015, there will…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Reginald Dwayne Betts

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • November 10, 2015
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new book Bastards of the Reagan Era.
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Housesitting

  • Marilyn Abildskov
  • September 25, 2015
When you arrived, you reached under the mat to pick up the keys in an envelope. Inside, a note on the kitchen counter said help yourself to anything in the pantry or fridge.
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Sound & Vision: Scott Crawford

  • Allyson McCabe
  • December 12, 2014
Director and punk rock enthusiast Scott Crawford talks with Allyson McCabe about his film Salad Days, his punk fanzine Metrozine, Kickstarter, and DIY music culture.
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The Last City I Loved: Washington D.C.

  • Holly Jones
  • November 7, 2012
DC is traffic circles, non-working fountains in some circles’ centers, jammed downtown corridors and quiet Anacostia neighborhood streets no taxi driver wants to know after midnight. It’s Muslim taxi drivers unfurling…
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Arlington: The Rap

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • June 16, 2009
“I’m ducking gunfire daily, Check to see if one got me, But that’s just life in the hood, When I go get my puffed kashi…” (via almost everyone I know…
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