L.A. journalist Anthea Raymond narrates interviews with players from the early Downtown music and arts scene, among them Paul Greenstein, Richard Duardo and Judith Hansen. They're talking about Gorky's, Madame Wong's, Atomic Cafe and other places that are gone but not forgotten.
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