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Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions

Oct 29, 2023

A Half-Century of Devo and The Spudeoisie

Coming of age just a few years behind these guys in Akron’s symbiotic municipal alter ego of Dayton (culturally ‘Daykron’ as National...

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions

Oct 26, 2023

King Coal

Re-Imagining The Documentary My friend Steve hosting a post-screening Q&A at The Neon for the film “King Coal” with the creator/director...

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions

Oct 17, 2023

Yellow Springs Film Festival a Triumphant Success

Really nice write up about my friend Eric Mahoney and the recent Yellow Springs Film Festival that he produced. A great event made...

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions

Oct 15, 2023

Surreal News For The Masses, Circa 1970

They certainly don’t make news intros like this anymore, that’s for sure… Yet for some reason something about it seems to have a...

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions

Oct 13, 2023

Tod Weidner - "Favorites"

My friend Tod Weidner has a tremendous new piece of work which came out recently. Drumming on it (and on a lot of his recent west coast...

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions

Oct 1, 2023

‘We were once paid $50 to quit.' - DEVO

A good read, and a good reminder about where things like Devo come from, along with what drives the use of culture and art to create and...