back alley

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Toño’s specialty is Peru’s Creole scene, which makes him an object of mockery among the high-minded musicologists in the academy and, given his intellectual pretensions, an equally risible figure in Lima’s back-alley bars where the music is performed.

From The Wall Street Journal

Shades of Charli XCX’s chaotic back-alley meta-entrance into the Crypto.com arena from Addison Rae here, with a cool pivot into choreo.

From Los Angeles Times

He also made it to a house party with a wait list of more than 600 people, many of whom were trying to squeeze their way into a back-alley entrance, which left him with another takeaway.

From The Wall Street Journal

On this Sunday morning, she, Winslet and Erivo sit with Demi Moore, who undergoes a dramatic physical transformation after receiving a back-alley rejuvenation treatment in “The Substance”; Zoe Saldaña, returning to singing and dancing as a lawyer protecting a Mexican cartel leader in the Spanish-language musical “Emilia Perez”; and Saoirse Ronan, starring as a young woman grappling with her sobriety in remote Scotland in “The Outrun” and as a British mother searching for her lost son during the Nazi bombing of London during World War II in “The Blitz.”

From Los Angeles Times

But there’s a real passion for the movie and Moore’s turn as Elisabeth Sparkle, a faded star who submits to a back-alley rejuvenation regime to reset her career.

From Los Angeles Times