Left Field.
The author reflects on the closing of Video City, an independently owned DVD rental store in the Notting Hill neighborhood of London, England, noting that streaming video services are putting such stores out of business and saying he will miss the film recommendations made by the store's knowledgeab...
| Published in: | New Statesman Vol. 144; no. 5270; pp. 34 - 35 |
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New Statesman Ltd.
7/10/2015
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