Border Radio Movie

Set in the waning days of the Los Angeles punk scene, "Border Radio" is the first feature by Allison Anders, who co-wrote and co-directed it with Kurt Voss and Dean Lent. This relatively unheralded 1987 indie -- a DIY effort from three UCLA film students -- may seem an odd fit for the Criterion Collection, which has been doing a superb job of issuing definitive DVD editions for acknowledged world cinema classics.

Set in the waning days of the Los Angeles punk scene, "Border Radio" is the first feature by Allison Anders, who co-wrote and co-directed it with Kurt Voss and Dean Lent. This relatively unheralded 1987 indie -- a DIY effort from three UCLA film students -- may seem an odd fit for the Criterion Collection, which has been doing a superb job of issuing definitive DVD editions for acknowledged world cinema classics.

One of the local scene's most active chroniclers has lost his primary forum. Bud Scoppa has left Music Connection magazine after what he described as a "philosophical rift" with publisher/executive editor Michael Dolan. "I've been feeling that the magazine this year was becoming hip," said Scoppa, who was a free-lance writer and record company talent developer before coming to the magazine in February, 1984.