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Sep 18, 2024 | 
villagevoice.com | Ben Gambuzza |Brad Spurgeon |Katherine Turman |Duncan Wheeler
Brooklyn-born LCD Soundsystem, fronted by the redoubtable James Murphy, recently headlined All Points East, an urban music festival in the multi-ethnic district of London’s Bethnal Green, part of a 14-date European tour. At Victoria Park, the Pixies opened for LCD; the bill also included younger acts, including another Brooklyn band, Nation of Language.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
villagevoice.com | Peter Noel |Brad Spurgeon |T.J. English |R.C. Baker
On the occasion of her second marriage, while standing before a justice of the peace, 21-year-old Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones) was six months pregnant. The year was 1946, a time when having a child out of wedlock was, for a woman, a public form of self-immolation, especially for someone like Dinah, who had been raised within the conservative, constricting yoke of the Southern Baptist Church.
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May 31, 2024 | 
robbreport.com | Brad Spurgeon
As the 2024 Formula 1 season takes a short break between last Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix and the Canadian race in Montreal next weekend, some of the drivers might try to rest and recuperate a little more than others.
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May 23, 2024 | 
robbreport.com | Brad Spurgeon
Ask any Formula 1 driver which race they would want to win if they could take just one victory in their career, and the answer will almost invariably be the Monaco Grand Prix.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
robbreport.com | Brad Spurgeon
Published on March 11, 2024 Clive Rose/Getty Images The 2024 Formula 1 season, which started with the first practice session of the Bahrain Grand Prix, held on February 29, and culminates with the checkered flag at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on December 8, is the longest in the history of the race series. The schedule presents 24 races at as many tracks.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Brad Spurgeon
The 2024 Formula 1 season, which started with the first practice session of the Bahrain Grand Prix, held on February 29, and culminates with the checkered flag at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on December 8, is the longest in the history of the race series. The schedule presents 24 races at as many tracks.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
robbreport.com | Brad Spurgeon
Novelist Ernest Hemingway was of the opinion that there were only three sports—bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering—while the rest were merely games. If alive today, he may amend that list to a single entry: the Formula 1 series, which ran the first race of its new season this past Saturday in Bahrain.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
laweekly.com | Brad Spurgeon
PARIS – He lies somewhere between a Zelig of rock ’n’ roll and the great disappearing act of Jacques Brel; his friends, contemporaries, and musical admirers include Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and Lou Reed. He has acted as his own alter-ego in a feature film alongside Marisa Berenson, and his novels, short stories, and memoirs have been published and translated in multiple languages around Europe.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
villagevoice.com | Brad Spurgeon
PARIS – He lies somewhere between a Zelig of rock ’n’ roll and the great disappearing act of Jacques Brel; his friends, contemporaries, and musical admirers include Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and Lou Reed. He has acted as his own alter-ego in a feature film alongside Marisa Berenson, and his novels, short stories, and memoirs have been published and translated in multiple languages around Europe.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
robbreport.com.my | Brad Spurgeon
If F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional character Percy Washington was alive and living in Paris today, he might boast not about his father owning “a diamond as big as the Ritz-Carlton,” but a secret club located in a designer parking lot underneath the Ritz, one bursting with Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Mercedes, Morgans, McLarens and even a couple of modern Formula 1 cars.
