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Summer Fridays — and take the rest of the month, too.

History Bites

A Voice Summer Vacation – and the Repetitions of History

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Hot, but not much plot.

FILM

Review: Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Lands Viewers in Cinema Purgatory

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Gibbering transmissions crashing on the far shores of the cosmos.

NYC SITES

Pay Phones Ring in a Row: A Warning from a Cyberpunk Pioneer

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This article is from 2001; this photo is from 2014; it’s now 2026 and we were just thinking, Yeah, the band is named Clinic, but Adrian Blackburn still seemed to know something the rest of us would only catch up to in 2020.

SEVEN DECADES

As the Aughts Got Rolling, Clinic Covered Their Mugs and Wowed Radiohead

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Tia Wood mixes it up.

VOICE CHOICE

From TikTok to the Smithsonian, Tia Wood Brings Her Personal Pop/R&B/Indigenous Sound to ‘Native Sounds Downtown’

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SEVEN DECADES

Forty Years Ago – and Four Decades After Its Creator’s Death – ‘Krazy Kat’ Was Still the Comic Strip of the Moment

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Into each life a little rain must fall: President Donald Trump speaks in D.C. in 2019, before departing to London to meet with NATO leaders for the 70th anniversary of the alliance.

History Bites

The Republicans are Raining on America’s Most Patriotic Celebration – Again

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1976 Village Voice article by Greil Marcus about the American bicentennial

SEVEN DECADES

Last Refuge of a Rock Critic: A Bicentennial Search for Patriotism

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Looking out for outcasts.

FILM

John Waters: The Pope of Trash Confesses His Sins

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