save music in chinatown Tag

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Sep 12, 2016

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Look up Rachel Haden and you'll see a laundry list of musical acts she's been in (That Dog, The Rentals, The Haden Triplets) and contributed to (Beck, Dieselhead, Dntel, The For Carnation, Jimmy Eat World, Ozma, The Rentals, Todd Rundgren, Mike Watt, Weezer). And you already know that her dad Charlie Haden was the much-loved...

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Apr 19, 2016

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Over time, the art of storytelling has come a long way--from teaching lessons to building religions to selling products--and I can understand why. It's more fun and effective to tell stories than philosophize or tell people what to do. And so on Sunday, community s p a c e s will be presenting Chinatown Storytelling Workshop. The...

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Dec 01, 2015

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Sharing ideas and aesthetics through the printed page was an awesome experience, especially since my friend Eric and I had started off with the most humble form of journalism--the zine. And for our publication to push a subculture and build a community whose impact would trickle up into the mainstream was never anticipated or even...

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Oct 27, 2015

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The new Bob Forrest record doesn't have layers of self-destructive lyrics and post-punk guitar like Thelonious Monster or the sobered-up and cleaned-up sound of The Bicycle Thief (his old bands). The concept is more akin to the Rick Rubin-produced Johnny Cash records: the raw voice of a well-traveled badass reinventing old songs. Of course, it's...