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SXSW Film Review: California Dreams, Mike Ott, 2017

Life is perhaps at its cruelest and clearest when aspiration and reality collides (and reality wins). If that’s true, then California Dreams is both. Having

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March 23, 2017 No Comments

SXSW Film Review: Disgraced, Pat Kondelis, 2017

  First, a bit of venue overview. Alamo Ritz wins the prize for the “most alternative” fillers of any theater I’ve attended. No black screens

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March 23, 2017 No Comments

SxSW Song of the Day: Temples, Certainty

Late in 2014, Ricky mused laconically about where the 70s-energy of Temples would be in 2017. Let’s review: “The Golden Throne” from Temples was a

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March 7, 2017 No Comments

SXSW Song of the Day: Sun and the Wolf – Precipice

I have had a limited sampling of German pop music, introduced to me by a German (whose first choice when working late was, oddly, Commodores’

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March 1, 2017 No Comments
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