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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19980210
Author:Yaffe, David

Smalls Celebrates Its First Record With a Week of Shows

When you descend the stairs at Smalls, you'll see a man in a leather jacket sitting at the bottom of the drafty stairwell taking the $10 cover. Sometimes he'll be playing the ukulele, or reading Edna St. Vincent Millay, or picking patrons' brains about politics while the line stalls. His name is Mitch Borden, and it took a few visits to the joint before I realized that he's the ouer: Once you're inside, it's literally impossible to spend any money, a unique phenomenon in the citv that never stops charging. There's free juice and soda on ...

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