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Cheryl Strayed
For months, the literary website the Rumpus has been hosting its own advice column called Dear Sugar, in…
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D.I.M.
Electronic producer D.I.M. (born Andreas Meid) came up during the “blog-house” boom of the mid-‘00s—so-called because the mass…
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Hunx and His Punx
Seth Bogart, the “Hunx” in Hunx and His Punx, got his start as the go-go boy/musical auteur of…
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
First things first: Nobody cares about the 1992 Bad Lieutenant, no masterpiece, which provides barely a premise for…
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Michael Gira
Michael Gira is best known for his work with his post-industrial band Swans and the label Young God…
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Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson initially got a lot of guff for being the first American Idol, and for treating every…
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Casablanca
We all know the story of this 1942 Michael Curtiz perennial: a classic love triangle set against the…
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Magnetic Fields
“Andrew in Drag,” the lead single of the Magnetic Field’s new album Love at the Bottom of the…
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Robert Schwartzman
Robert Schwartzman is a man of many hats—member of the Coppola family dynasty, son of Talia “Yo Adrian”…
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David Martin and Nicolette Bromberg
Popular photography was new in the 1920s, and the medium was only gradually feeling its way to a…
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Three Times
Indeed, you could call this 2005 romance Hou Hsiao-hsien for Dummies. Set in three different periods, this triptych…
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Ying Yang Twins
Long before the likes of LMFAO came along, the Ying Yang Twins were cranking out crunkest of party…
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The Pretty Reckless
A dramatic pop-punk act fronted by former child actress and Gossip Girl nymph Taylor Momsen, The Pretty Reckless…
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Labyrinth
Before she was an Oscar winner and sex symbol for the Hubert Selby Jr. set, Jennifer Connelly was…
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Sounders vs. Toronto
Of course Seattle Sounders fans get giddy at the start of every season, and every year we say…
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Vetiver
It’s easy to tab Vetiver as your basic folk-rock group, but much like their music, the reality is…
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Head Like a Kite & Daydream Vacation
There are only a handful of musicians in town who are fluent in the exotic language of dance…
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The Raincoats
The ladies will rule Chop Suey tonight—the influential London post-punk band the Raincoats, favorites of both Kurt Cobain…
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Geoff Dyer
Possibly the longest movie review ever written, Geoff Dyer’s Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey…
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Lucky 2012 with Calvin Harris
Setting aside the mild cognitive dissonance of a St. Patrick’s Day-themed big-room rave being headlined by a Scottish…