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Entertainment
Film Review
Other Music Helped Cultivate Indie Bands
Before Being Forced to Close Their Doors
By Morgan Rojas for Cinemacy.com
Benicio Del Toro called his visits to the
record store a religious experience. Jason
Schwartzman was constantly inspired by its
hyper-knowledgeable staff. It’s also where
Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend “literally
discovered new genres of music” because
of how everything was uniquely and specifically
categorized. Any music buff will tell
you that Other Music in NYC was nirvana
(pun intended).
The self-titled documentary from co-directors
Puloma Basu and Rob Hatch-Miller follows the
last 6 weeks of this iconic and legendary indie
record shop before they were forced to close
their doors for good in June 2016. Increasing
rent prices in Manhattan’s East Village made
it impossible to stay afloat and the trend towards
streaming was a battle that shop owners
Josh Madell and Chris Vanderloo knew they
couldn’t win. It’s such a shame that culturally
significant safe havens like Other Music aren’t
invincible, and their loss hits hard. Interviews
with devoted customers and artists like Matt
Berninger of The National, Tunde Adebimpe
of TV on the Radio, and Regina Spektor all
speak from the heart about how Other Music
influenced their careers and lives for the better.
Other Music was the quintessential place
for people in NYC who appreciated music
to spend hours racking the shelves for otherworldly
discoveries, rare gems, and human
connection. They hosted in-store performances
from No Age, St. Vincent, Conor Oberst, and
Neutral Milk Hotel to name a few, which the
film shows with great nostalgia. If you’re
a fan of any of the bands I’ve mentioned,
including Animal Collective, Interpol, Yeah
Yeah Yeahs, William Basinski, Sharon Van
Etten, and The Rapture, you’ll find so much
joy in watching this film. Physically, Other
Music is no more but its spirit lives on. After
a canceled theatrical run due to COVID, the
filmmakers partnered with record stores and
theaters for a Virtual Cinema run.
Distributed by Factory 25, Other Music is
available to stream on Amazon Prime. •
Other Music, courtesy Factory 25.
Morgan Rojas
Health
CTE and the New Me:
Two Traumatic Brain Injury
Experts Provide Keys to Survival
Traditionally, people associate traumatic
brain injury with athletes, pro-ballers, grade
school/high school/college athletes but never
construction workers, veterans, cheerleaders
or someone you may know who sustained
a major concussive accident during their
lifetime. The problem becomes exacerbated
when people don’t realize they have such a
condition or even worse, choose to ignore
that they do, which becomes the elephant
in the room.
Through CTE and the New Me, a program
created by and hosted with former
NFL player, George Visger (San Francisco
49’ers) and renowned Alzheimer’s care
practitioner/certified cognitive care manager
and founder/owner of Famiily Connect
Care, Lauren Mahakian, participants,
through this zoom Seminar platform, will
be empowered to find the “keys” to unlocking
a productive life after a traumatic
brain injury.
Visger articulates this best with, “Having
not only survived nine brain surgeries in
12 years, but thrived these last 38 years
since the 1st in 1981, I feel obligated to
pay it forward. CTE and the New Me is a
platform that allows survivors, family members
and medical providers an opportunity
to ‘pick my brain’ and learn some of the
coping mechanisms. I will share with
participant information on successful,
non-pharmaceutical treatments I’ve used;
everything from family and psychological
counseling and the impact drugs and alcohol
can have when compounded with a TBI, to
legal issues.”
As for Mahakian, who has spent over
25 years dedicated to changing lives of the
cognitive impaired and finds healing for
traumatic brain injured simply an extension
of her specialty, “I have spent my career
committed as a care manager for the memory
impaired. I have created and implemented
successful programs and always knew one
day that I would expand my approach to
those people who are affected by traumatic
brain injury.”
This new journey which will aid those
who are fearful of diagnosis or haven’t even
realized they are carrying such a health
burden and will begin its mission to tear
down walls and misconceptions and work on
the healing in this area of cognitive health
starting, Thursday, September 17, 2020 at
11: 00 AM. There will be an invaluable “Q
& A” facilitated by these experts at the end
of the seminar.
To register for CTE and the New Me
and find out more about traumatic brain
injury, please call: (310) 383-1877; or go to
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Dear Neighborhood Therapist,
It has been a hard few months for my
amazing, brilliant 10-year-old daughter
and her younger sister. Their grandfather
died of Covid-19 earlier this month. They
were very close. I also had Covid-19 and
had to isolate myself from the kids for three
weeks. Both their father and I are recently
remarried, and we share custody of the kids,
so they split time between two blended
families, and the kids do not all get along
perfectly. We have formed a bubble with
another trusted family, but they do not have
any kids close to her age, and we haven’t
seen any other friends since March. We are
also in the process of moving, so she is
starting a new school online. She has been
having meltdowns every few days, crying
uncontrollably for an hour or more. I hate
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– Worried and Stuck at Home
Dear Worried and Stuck at Home,
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For example, you pointed out that she is so
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sister that her sister has hardly noticed how
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her commitment to her sister despite
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We agreed that it was fortunate that she
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she’s going to continue to need it. Not even
J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter into such
tough circumstances: Harry, at least, had
friends he could see, a door he could close,
and an entire magical world he could escape
to where he was already powerful, rich and
See Therapist, page 5
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