We love a good pun. And, apparently, a bad one, too. A few weeks ago, we checked off a major “to-do” from our list: Interviewing Lenadams Dorris, the man who opened the short-lived but highly influential Newsroom coffeehouse on Maryland Parkway (following its equally short-lived stint in downtown Las Vegas), and later helped sustain and…
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Two weeks ago, more than 150 backers helped us raise over $13,000 toward the completion of Parkway of Broken Dreams. That weekend, we embarked on a whirlwind trip to Las Vegas to capitalize on several movers, shakers and culture-makers from the Maryland Parkway scene all being in town at one time. We partially have the Las…
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Our 30 days are up! The Parkway of Broken Dreams crowdfunding campaign ended Oct. 17 having reached 90% of its goal–a total of $13,609 contributed by 166 amazing people. Even though we surpassed 80% and got the Green Light, we did not get enough followers to qualify as a finalist in the Hometown Heroes rally.…
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We’re right at the halfway mark of our Seed&Spark crowdfunding campaign, and we’re at 44% funded, thanks to all of you beautiful people. We have 15 days to raise about $5,400 in order to get the green light. It’s basically all or nothing, folks. If we don’t hit 80% of goal by the end of…
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Hey, check it out: The Las Vegas Weekly wrote a little blurb about our crowdfunding project (image above by Leila Navidi from that article). Cool, right? Seems appropriate, given Parkway of Broken Dreams is based on an article I wrote for that fine publication about 12 years ago. We’re now four days into our crowdfunding…
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This is it, folks! The official PARKWAY OF BROKEN DREAMS crowdfunding campaign is now LIVE on the film funding/distribution platform Seed&Spark. We have 30 days to raise at least $12,000 and gain 1,000 followers. No problem, right? Why 1,000 followers? Because PARKWAY OF BROKEN DREAMS is participating in Seed&Spark’s Hometown Heroes rally, in which hometown-centered…
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