Ramadan Diaries, Day Eighteen
...sit in a café in the middle of the day. The soft sound of spring rain permeates the raucous batucada percussion of the Brazilian music playing indoors. Eating midday for...
Boy 2 Man
...development, we’re sticking them with the bill. Socialization is not simply a function of maternal attachment, and Mason encounters a culture of toxic masculinity inside and outside the home. No...
Piece of Candy
...— Candy Darling The specter of the “superstar,” that shining icon who transfixes our collective gaze, looms large over contemporary culture. On television, RuPaul’s catty Drag Race reality competition recently...
Martin Scorsese Started the Fire: Hugo and The Bad Thing
...movie gone from the paradigmatic orphan plot to a Behind the Music documentary? How have we been tricked into thinking the real tragedy of the Bad Thing was that it...
Grammar Lessons
...sought to satirize than much of what passes for relevant cinema from the era. Movies like this almost never get included in those categorizations of quality our self-destructing culture is...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 18
...our lives on nothing. As a longtime archivist of books, music, and assorted life ephemera, I can tell you these days I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of...
You Know You're the Prettiest Girl
...this piece, Nakadate feeds lurid lines about herself to a croaking old man, who dutifully repeats them over footage of Hollywood alleys and apartment complexes. It feels like an effort...
Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center present "Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn" (9/20)
...Young presenting a film on refuge and the African-American diaspora inside the historic sanctuary of Bethel Tabernacle AME Church; collective Otabenga Jones & Associates broadcasting music and radical histories from...
Echoes of Ghadar @ Pace U 10/25-27
...The convergence aims to revive the often forgotten history of the Ghadar movement, through: a celebration of music, films, and conversations among grassroots activists from South Asia and the...
Fuck You, Here's a Rainbow
...And other essays about music. Click here or on the image for your free download!...
Cool Front/
Hot Mess
...so coy. Open your ears to their music. Contemporary hip-hop and pop have no time for plausible deniability. Rappers like their status symbols delivered straight-up. There’s no irony or distancing...
Film Premiere: Masha Tupitsyn's Love Sounds (11/4 + 11/5)
...While much emphasis has been placed on the visual iconography of love, with the exception of music very little attention has been given to love as an aural phenomenon since...
Five Questions with Eileen Myles
...Pater that 'all art constantly aspires towards the conditions of music'? No. That seems rather one note. He's being prescriptive. I don't think he knows what he's talking about. Winter...
The New Inquiry Vol. 2 Release Screening and Panel: Livestream
...the run up to Occupy Wall Street's declared May 1 general strike, we've assembled a panel to discuss the film, pop music, and revolutionary politics featuring: Cosmo Bjorkenheim, a New...
in the Name of INJUSTICE
...to induce the candidates away from non-??????? use of words (No, Perhaps, Less, etc.) while they are awaiting initiation, and to provide them with suitable entertainment (music, trembling bass, answering...
Art, Work, and Refusal
...am certainly strong, but I am not comfortable with silence in this situation. I refuse to be a silent artist regarding issues that affect my livelihood and the culture of...