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2010 Stories by Falling James

• THE SPITTLE SCREEN

  published November 18, 2010

  The history of punk rock in film and on television has been spotty — at best — but this weekend Cinefamily climbs fearlessly into the... More >>

• WHEN NELLIE MET ROXY

  published October 28, 2010

  The singer-pianist/wunderkind/animal-rights activist/Broadway actor/unabashed Doris Day fan Nellie McKay is one of this country's finest... More >>

• KNOW YOUR PUNK

  published September 30, 2010

  History is written by the victors, which is why the story of punk these days seems to be more about perky, lightweight mainstream pap-punk groups... More >>

• ICE PICK OF THE WEEK

  published September 30, 2010

  Most of the touring figure-skating exhibitions trot out the usual cast of suspects gallivanting around the ice to the usual soundtrack of sappy... More >>

• Jon Spencer, Extra Wide

  published September 23, 2010

  Less is usually more in the world of Jon Spencer. When he first broke through with the Washington, D.C., minimalist noise-punk... More >>

• MAYBE BABY

  published September 23, 2010

  In her song-poem "There Were Two Girls Who Looked a Lot the Same," the local poet Ellyn Maybe celebrates her titular subjects with a profusion of... More >>

• YES IN DEE DEE

  published September 16, 2010

  Bassist-singer Dee Dee Ramone was the heart and soul of the Ramones, writing many of their best songs (including "Rockaway Beach," "Chinese Rocks"... More >>

• SHE WAS A PUNK BEFORE YOU WERE A PUNK

  published August 5, 2010

  Donna Santisi's 1978 photo book, Ask the Angels (named after the early Patti Smith song), was one of the first collections to document the... More >>

• WHO LOVES YA JOHNNY

  published July 22, 2010

  For a guy who's not actually buried there, the late Johnny Ramone — or his ghost — sure spends a lot of time haunting Hollywood Forever... More >>

• THERE'S NO BEAT LIKE A DEAD BEAT

  published July 22, 2010

  Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts is a "traveling poetry supershow" of spoken-word performers and musicians that started in San Francisco in 2008 and... More >>

• THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR LEE

  published July 8, 2010

  Considering Arthur Lee's deep impact on modern music -- he fronted one of the first multiracial rock bands, recorded with Jimi Hendrix, was a... More >>

• KNOW YOUR PUNK

  published July 1, 2010

  Over the past four decades, punk rock has split off into dozens of subgenres, including funk-punk, peace punk, hardcore, cowpunk, ska-punk, garage... More >>

• WHO'S YOUR TIA?

  published June 17, 2010

  The Danza Mexica group Temachtia Quetzalcoatl leads an opening ceremony, followed by music from Upground, Bambu, La Chamba, Banda Nueva... More >>

• ICE PICK OF THE WEEK

  published May 13, 2010

  As spring tilts ever closer toward summer, our memories of February's Winter Olympics (not to mention March's seemingly overshadowed ISU World... More >>

• ANNA LE BANANE

  published April 22, 2010

  The brilliant French film director Jean-Luc Godard worked with some of the most iconic actresses of the 1960s and early 1970s, including Jean... More >>

• Long Gone: The Great Lost Quick Album

  published March 11, 2010

  In this nostalgia-mad music era, when seemingly everything worthwhile has already been ruthlessly exhumed, rediscovered and... More >>

• Bigger Than Both of Us

  published February 26, 2010

  The Bird & the Bee's Inara George and Greg Kurstin are a madly talented pop duo. George is the daughter of the late Little Feat mastermind Lowell... More >>

• BREASTS! THIGHS! BLACK! WHITE!

  published January 28, 2010

  Vintage women-in-prison films can be dramatic, exploitive, revolutionary, voyeuristic, campy, sexy and/or sexist, and director Steve Balderson's... More >>