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  "title": "AVENUE X",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIAL]",
  "article": "[J. B. Macabre] “In 1990, WBAI aired a program called Avenue X, which was produced by Brenda\nBlack and written by Nate Torres. It was an episodic program that followed the lives of a group of\nvampires that lived along Avenue X in Brooklyn, New York. The show featured the radio voices of\nmany of the station’s local talent, including the mysterious Fred Geobold. The program borrowed\nmany of its plot elements from several literary works on vampires, but Nate Torres helped to\nmake the show successful by adding other unique elements to the plot and capturing a feel for\nthat part of the New York area. The program lasted two years and went off the air not due to lack\nof audience support but as a result of problems within the cast and production team.”\n[Mark Wieczorek] “Then there was Avenue X. I don't know how many people know about this\nshow... A couple of hundred, a few thousand? Produced by Brenda Black and aired on WBAI, this\nradio drama kept me up more nights so I could hear it/tape it when it was broadcast at 4:30 in the\nAM. Mike Sargent was also involved with the first season of this show, of which I have about 9\nepisodes on tape. It was broadcast at the end of Fredrick Geobold / Fred Geobold's show,\nLightshow.\n“Avenue X is about a vampire named Veronica Reverence and her search for David Darren, the\nvampire who made her. While I don't think this could be considered high art, it was highly\nentertaining as a sort of \"guilty pleasure.\" One notable cameo was by Max Schmidt, who continues\nto run the Golden Age of Radio show on WBAI.”\n[WBAI Folio, March 1991] “3:00 Lightshow. Spotlighting independence in and out of the\nperforming arts, with hosts Frederick GeoBold and Brenda Black. Featuring at 4:30 Brenda\nBlacks Avenue X, a radio serial about a Vampire named Veronica Reverence. Beware of her…”\n[Atomic Age] “Comic book series (Purple Spiral, 1992-1995): Veronica Reverence is a beautiful\nvampire who recently escaped the vampire jail known to humans as The Knight Club. She killed\nfellow vampire, Pagan, but only as an act of mercy to save her from an excruciating death in a fire.\nNow she revels in her power at her lair on Avenue X where she entices unsuspecting victims to\ntheir death.\n“This title is a combination horror comic and bad girl pin-up book. Unfortunately as a horror\ntitle the writing is stilted and the art is primitive. The pin-up pages are done by different artists,\nand while better, are still cold and lifeless.\n“This book appears to continue storylines that were started when the title was initially published\nby Innovation, and was adapted from a radio drama on WBAI-NY a community radio station in\nNew York. “\nAvenue X. Innovation. b&w. Adult. Adaptation of \"Avenue X.\" no. 1 (1992.) a. Article: “Robert\nChang: A Profile of the Artist”. 1p. b. \"Torment\" by Brenda Black & Robert Chang et al. 24p. v\nVeronica Reverence.\nBased on the radio drama that aired on WBAI in New York.\nAvenue X. Purple Spiral Comics. b&w. anth. Adult. vol. 2, no. 1 (Dec. 1994.) \"More Torment\" by\nC. Brenda Black & Fauve. 27p. v Veronica Reverence, Dillon, Lance Knight, Mercedes.\nvol. 3 (1995.) \"Avenue X\" by Brenda Black & Delfin Barral. 23p. v Veronica Reverence, Cathay\nvampires, Mercedes, Pagan. b. \"The Origin of the Cathay Vampires\" by Brenda Black & Delfin\nBarral. 3p. Cover: Louis Small, Jr. & Zeea Adams.",
  "origination": "WBAI, New York City, New York (Pacifica).",
  "duration": "1990-1992.",
  "personnel": "Brenda Black (producer), Nate Torres (scriptwriter).\nCAST: Fred Geobold, et al.",
  "extant_recordings": "Unknown.",
  "chronology": "LIGHTSHOW—“AVENUE X” (WBAI, NEW YORK]\n[Friday—4:30-?:?? AM]\nMarch 8, 1991\nMarch 22, 1991\nApril 24, 1992\n[“…Music, live radio drama, and undead radio drama. At 4:30AM hear\nAvenue X, the vampire radio drama. Plus a special surprise guest…”]",
  "sources": "MACABRE, J. B. “The Bat Takes Flight: Vampires on Air.” The Complete Vampire Companion.\nNew York: Macmillan, 1994.\nWIECZOREK, MARK. “Radio Dramas, an Appreciation.” Mark Wieczorek’s Weblog (January 15,\n2003).\nPERIODICALS: WBAI Folio.",
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