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Documentaries Old and New; Sascha Rice, Sundance and Nanook

Hellin Kay | Posted 03.05.2012 | Arts
Read More: Bill Cunningham, Political Documentaries, Reality TV, Gatling Pictures, Sundance Film Festival, Tabloid, New Documentaries, Palm Springs Film Festival, Ice T, Pat Brown, Bard College, Nanook of the North, Cure for the Pain, Sascha Rice, Adolfas Mekas, Robert Flaherty, Nostalgia, California History, Mad Men, Politics, John Pruitt, Film History, Page One, Restrepo, Jerry Brown, Mark Sandman, Documentary Film, Moca, Arts News
Hellin Kay

Documentary film is one of the most undervalued of all art forms. But thanks I guess partly to "reality TV" people seem to have rediscovered it in the mainstream.

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My Top Ten Old New (Or Is It New Old?) Records of 2009

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Michael Jackson, Brendan Benson, Dave Champagne, Jim Fitting, Miles Davis, A.C. Newman, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Treat Her Right, Ella Fitzgerald, Mark Sandman, Carnegie Hall, Bing Crosby, Love, Scott LaFaro, Betty Davis, Morphine, Billy Conway, Death, Bob Dylan, Herb Alpert, The Disciplines, Arthur Lee, Paul Smith, Don Friedman, Bill Evans, Sly Stone, Pete LaRoca, Frank Sinatra, Clive Davis, Lani Hall, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, Jackson 5, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

Most of the "new" music I've gotten into this year is actually old music that's never been heard before, dredged up from the vaults just in time to make a buck before recorded music ceases to have any monetary value whatsoever.

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Ten Records That Made This Cruddy Decade a Little More Bearable

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: New York Yankees, Meg White, The Strokes, The Darkness, The Raconteurs, Brendan Benson, Richard Hell, Beck, A.C. Newman, Otis Redding, Television, Fleet Foxes, Fiery Furnaces, Mark Sandman, Destroyer, The Velvet Underground, White Stripes, Bright Eyes, Jonas Brothers, Jack White, Bill Haley, Dana Colley, The Libertines, Bon Iver, Neko Case, Morphine, Mosquitos, Led Zeppelin, Lil Wayne, Bob Dylan, Joan Jett, John Lennon, Mickey Lee Lane, Juju Stelbach, Pete Doherty, Dan Bejar, Detroit Cobras, Lady GaGa, New Pornographers, Jay-Z, Rachael Nagy, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

The ten records that made my decade may not be the most cutting-edge or most obscure or significant of groundbreaking. But they're mine, and I love 'em all passionately. Here's my soundtrack to the decade of "Mission Accomplished."

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