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Dancing, With Purpose, At Paragon

A night inside Paragon's smoke-filled backroom.

Arielle Lana LeJardea at Paragon

Dancing, With Purpose, At Paragon

A night inside Paragon's smoke-filled backroom.

Dancing, With Purpose, At Paragon

“Things definitely haven’t been as easy as I make it seem on Instagram,” Arielle Lana LeJarde writes in a recent blog on her substack “Heads Know.” A longtime music writer on the dance beat, she distinguished herself at sites like FADER and Resident Advisor; it was her story at the latter last year that located suspicions that a police crackdown on clubs like H0l0 in Ridgewood and the recently-opened SILO in Bushwick was part of the city’s supposedly-dormant “MARCH” taskforce. Within a year, Eric Adams would be appearing on the floor of Paragon himself in order to announce that the aforementioned MARCH taskforce would be disbanding, after all. 

Sometime later, Paragon would be hosting one of the first few nights LeJarde has been putting on as “Heads Know,” which doubles as the name of her solo producing outfit…

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