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Tag Archives: Features

On 4th and Broadway: Remembering Tower Records

By Michael Gonzales

Having grown up in the 1970s, an era when record shops were a fixture in communities and often served as neighborhood social centers, I became obsessed with a small store located on 146th and Broadway…

April 12, 2023 in Music & Sound.

“It’s A Great Life If You Don’t Weaken”: ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ at 50

By Johnny Restall

American cinema of the 1970s has long been recognized for its downbeat, character-led crime dramas. From Alan J. Pakula’s Klute (1971) to Arthur Penn’s Night Moves (1975) and Ulu Grosbard’s Straight Time (1978)…

March 20, 2023 in Film & TV.

“Have a Good Time All the Time”: ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ and the Art of Longing

By Lisa Fernandes

1984’s This is Spinal Tap is all about the pining—epic pining, as high and fulsome as the band’s hair and the wailing notes they (try to) hit…

November 7, 2022 in Film & TV.

“One Nite Only”: When Frank Zappa Played at State U

By James Higgins

In the summer of 1970, the launch of the humor magazine National Lampoon was not going well…

September 26, 2022 in Art & Illustration.

Pop Culture Jam: The Mainstream Subversion of Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel

By Andy Prisbylla

The subversive paradox created when Max Headroom turned pitchman for corporate cola is just one of many in the career of Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel…

June 22, 2022 in Film & TV.

Authentic Music from Another Planet: The Howard Menger Story

By Stephen Canner

From the opening years of the 1950s, various terrestrials came forward claiming to be in contact with the occupants of flying saucers. Their stories were often quite similar…

March 8, 2022 in Occult & Paranormal.

No Bondage, No More: ‘Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché’

By Eve Tushnet

I first heard about the X-Ray Spex from a Riot Grrrl flier handed out at punk concerts in the mid-’90s. Their one album, Germfree Adolescents, was on a list of woman-led punk music…

February 28, 2022 in Music & Sound.

Shopping Mauled: Revisiting ‘The Mall: An Attempted Escape from Everyday Life’

By Ty Matejowsky

By now, dead shopping malls are as much a part of the popular imagination as they are blighted fixtures of suburban landscapes: sprawling vestiges of a bygone era when droves of consumers flocked to self-contained hubs of retail commerce…

February 9, 2022 in Books & Literature.

Doom, Détente, Dr Pepper: ‘Godzilla 1984’ and ‘Godzilla 1985’

By Alex Adams

Also known as The Return of Godzilla and simply Godzilla, Godzilla 1984 is what we would now call a reboot: part remake, part sequel, a fresh start that retrieved some things from Godzilla’s past while discarding others…

January 31, 2022 in Film & TV.

The Lonely, Horny Prophecies of Lynne Tillman’s ‘Weird Fucks’

By Sam Moore

What’s prescient about Weird Fucks is how everything both is and isn’t a matter of life and death; violence is an undercurrent, and every breakup may or may not be the end of the world…

November 18, 2021 in Books & Literature.

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