The Art of Memoir: Outside is Trouble
...world another hurdle obstructing the course of romance, and when desires are left to be sated on the residuals of the disappeared object — or when language, culture, class, and...
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...
Sunday Reading, July 2, 2023
...since the Great Depression, and due to the modest policy response, “it seems unlikely that US income concentration will fall much in the coming years.” Swedish electronic music group The...
I'm Not a Philosopher (But I Play One in The Movies)
...melancholy underneath Chomsky’s unwillingness to discuss his wife’s death. Mortality hangs over the entire project like that; Gondry himself, once an enfant terrible of the music video world, is just...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.27.12
...Unwanted Music." So worth a listen.) ED bytes: Excellent piece that gives context and insight into the new direction of pro-eating-disorder sites; I'd say it's a must-read for anyone concerned...
Vol. 20 Editors' Note: Off-Brand
...walk at the edge of self-control.” From swagger descends “swag,” the swank stuff you neither buy nor steal but are magically “gifted.” Anyone can get free music or free food...
Alone Again Or
...Larry David to Lena Dunham Heti, to her credit, is quite funny when she chooses to be. , bleakness and despair are ultimately punch lines, complete with credit music that...
Choose Your Own Adventure
...cuisine, world music, ethnic chic, etc, while the black other is pushed further away. Personally I am glad people are relatively open about their racial sexual preferences. It allows me...
Off-Brand
...nor steal but are magically “gifted.” Anyone can get free music or free food (provided their standards are low enough), and art objects are worth nothing unless they’re purchased. Only...
Crushed…
Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency
Private Life Drama
...of late-night dancing, where to “some insane European music that contained centrifugal forces… almost every man present asked [Moscow] to dance, finding in her something that had been lost in...
Too Foreign
...in her afterword: “when to prioritize the music and when the meaning.” Lispector’s Portuguese is, we are told by both translators, a sonorous web of repetitions, intent more on establishing...
Memories of a Penitent Heart @ Rox Gallery
...Performance by Aja Nicole Marie Mrs Williamsburg 2014 Music by Rafe Terrizzi AKA Mr. Gibbons 7pm Thursday, June 12 86 Delancey Street $8 Door Suggested Donation FREE entry for Indiegogo...
Locations Requiring Further Examination
...flavors. Operated by Egyptians, Pakistanis and African Americans. The cover charge for customers is five dollars. Location caters to college students and plays Hip Hop music at night. Turnpike Mediterranean...
Fragments on microcelebrity
...11. To mark today's release of New Inquiry's music issue, Spectacle Theater in Williamsburg is screening a film tonight about Kurt Cobain, a clear casualty of the celebrity he was...
Wifey Status
...stardom. In an interview with Vogue U.K. she explains, “I wanted a name I could shape the music toward. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time,...