"The Black-owned cigar lounge has become a place of escape," Gooden said
Because no matter how often one is told that stinking like a pub carpet and dying a slow and painful death from lung cancer isn't hip, it is true that smoking has long served as social shorthand for being witheringly cool: James Dean, Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Marianne Faithfull - all were iconic smokers
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When the band strays from their formula of angular, anarchic lo-fi punk, the rewards dwindle, such as on the too-zany cut Love Your Baby/Moron. But overall, this is a group that plays serious without taking itself too seriously