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DromFest ’24 Has Coaxed ’80s and ’90s Bands to Come Out and Play

 When Al Crisafulli launched Dromedary Records out of his apartment in Lodi,

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Review: 45 Years Later, ‘Caligula’ Continues to be Disowned by Its Creators  

 The salacious folly that was Caligula (1979) has long been consigned to

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Robert Lighthouse Brings the Blues to a Ravaged Ukraine

 Over more than 40 years of playing blues around the world —

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Review: ‘Stress Positions’ Squeezes Wit From a Social Bubble as Tight as a Habitrail

Playing naive narcissism for tart laughs. NEONIt didn’t take long — the

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Christeene: Fabulous Filth and Fury

Christeene takes the mic – no holds barred, no hands needed. Brett

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Metrograph Surveys Three Decades of Filmic Barn Burners

“Peppermint Candy” (2000) was the touchstone movie for an entire Gen X

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Review: ‘Water for Elephants’ elevates the Elephant in the Room

A musical, but not exactly a comedy. Matthew MurphyNo animals are harmed

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‘Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World’ Makes You Want to Go On

MUBIThe Romanian New Wave’s preeminent bad-boy muckraker, its Carpathian morph of Godard

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