Around the time I was putting up the first part of My Life In Pornography at Thought Catalog, I heard about the work of photographer Barbara Nitke, who was shooting…
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At left: Lithograph of the cover art for Acid Eaters, The Ramones, 1993, signed by the members of the group at the time. A couple of weeks ago I was…
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As I may have mentioned somewhere, or as you may have been able to infer somehow through my writing, as a teenager I was a fairly religious reader of the…
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No blues: Charlotte Rampling in Lumet's The Verdict, 1982 Q: You've talked about the irony of how some critics referred to Prince of the City as "realistic" whereas you deliberately…
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Last fall I was pretty delighted to learn that some smart person at Universal Music Group had put together a compilation of the more or less entire recorded ouevre of…
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A couple of months ago I got an e-mail from a friend who asked if I still reviewed jazz records. I kind of got mentally stuck at the "still;" soon…
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