In early January, determined for a distraction from the outgoing president’s tries to overturn the election, I commenced digitizing house motion pictures from my childhood in Tallahassee, Florida. As a kid, I fancied myself one thing of an auteur, and I wielded our family’s camcorder like a chubby and flamboyant […]
Twitter queen Dionne Warwick wants to unblock your chakras
The latest place to hear Dionne Warwick’s voice — that one-of-a-kind instrument that defined pop sophistication in the mid-1960s — is up a few flights of stairs behind a grimy storefront several blocks from the beach in Venice. This is the Ohm Zone, a combination recording studio, sound bath and […]