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Month: February 2016

Opinion

The Barbara Stanwyck Factor: Tying the Binds in UNION PACIFIC

Feb 19, 2016 The Retro Set 0

The words “Barbara Stanwyck is one of the greatest film actress of all time” have been repeated so often they risk coming across as mere rote. And so, the attempt to put into words an […]

Movies

To Be Deranged: Lost Highway & the Mind of an Artist

Feb 18, 2016 Patrick King 0

While I was gathering notes for this article, David Bowie died. Fitting, then, that Lost Highway features one of his songs prominently in both the opening and closing credits. Bowie understood more than most the […]

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Fashion

Pictorial Palette: Her Highness, Grace Kelly

Feb 17, 2016 The Retro Set 0

The Pictorial Palette is a regular exercise that brings Technicolor glasses to design. By selecting a still from a classic film and exploring its color patterns, it is our hope that these little swaths of […]

Movies

Blu-ray Review: Carl Franklin’s DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (1995)

Feb 16, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

“It was summer, 1948, and I needed money.” Competent, and at times compelling, Carl Franklin’s pedestrian neo-noir Devil in a Blue Dress boasts a syzygy of talent that keeps it going. The first of these components is […]

Opinion

A President’s Day History Lesson By Way of Abraham Lincoln’s Awesomely Bad Hair

Feb 15, 2016 The Retro Set 0

In honor of President’s Day, The Retro Set brings you something a little bit … different. Editor Carley Johnson is a major American History buff nerd, and has a thing or two to say about […]

Listicles

5 Reasons The Beatles’ 1964 Washington D.C. Concert Kicks Ass

Feb 11, 2016 The Retro Set 6

52 years ago today, on a frigid February afternoon, The Beatles played their first ever concert in the United States at the Washington D.C. Coliseum, to a sold out audience. The energy of that performance is as riveting […]

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