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Posted inArt Beat

Austin poetry jam a platform for local storytellers

by Shanel Romain November 30, 2022January 30, 2023

Doreen Vanlee had something to get off her chest. She’s miffed about “Candyman,” the 1992 horror film that depicts a spirit who murders anyone who speaks his name five times in the mirror. The film is famously set in the iconic Cabrini-Green housing project, a place Vanlee called home before the last vestiges of the […]

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