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Roisin Murphy at The National Arts Club, NYC, 02.19.2009

Fashion Week wouldn’t be complete without an appearance by Roisin Murphy, who is slowly but surely branding herself Stateside as a style icon-meets-nouveau diva.

21 Feb 2009 | More
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Williamsburg Fashion Weekend, Secret Project Robot at Monster Island, 10.4.08

In the husk of a new construction across the street the poet writes on an old typewriter, the sound resides, spelling out “p u r p l e pe o p l e,” bouncing across the red brick building’s courtyard. A dog barks, someone yells “not tonight” into a telephone, with a somewhat slurry voice…

8 Oct 2008 | 1 comment | More
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Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot: A Tribeca Film Festival Chat with Director/Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch

Adam Yauch dropped by the Apple Store in Soho during the Tribeca Film Festival to shoot the breeze about his latest documentary, Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot. You might think a film centering around the 24 top high school basketball players participating in 2006’s “Elite 24″ tournament in Harlem’s Rucker Park would scare off anyone [...]

7 May 2008 | More
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Human Giant: Whacking the Standards and Chasing Philip Seymour Hoffman

I’m sitting in the Human Giant office in New York City on a couch strewn with winter coats, and below a poster of the Kate Hudson-Matthew McConaughey movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. This is going to get a little crazy.

11 Mar 2008 | 7 comments | More
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The Hours Play in Style at PRADA, NYC, 9.08.07: Sentimentalist Magazine Review

On a recent Friday night at the PRADA boutique in Soho, British power-pop band The Hours debuted in the U.S. They played on a stage in front of New York’s most fashionable people, with lights flashing blue and yellow and a giant disco skull hanging above the audience. The show was a fitting wrap-up for [...]

19 Sep 2007 | More

Reviews

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Joy Division (2007): DVD/Screening Review

This review is not about a rockumentary or film, or a fade-in caught on celluloid. These words, instead, are about a t-shirt that should have never existed. The film starts with collaged montages of Manchester and a voice over that declares (roughly): “This film is not about a band or a group of people, but a city that once created the greatest revolution of Western society, then came back and created a bigger revolution…”

5 Jul 2008
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NYLON Magazine with The Kills at Bowery Ballroom, NYC, 02.11.08

Dressed in an animal print shirt and roughed-up gold boots, Alison Mosshart (V.V.) of London band The Kills prowls the stage like a tigress in heat, while her partner in music (and against the world) Jamie Hince (Hotel) manically assaults his guitar. To call this duo “sexy” would be trivial, trite, even. To sum them [...]

12 Feb 2008
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I’m Not There: In Concert, Beacon Theatre 11.07.07: Sentimentalist Magazine Review

More proof that music is not possible without Bob Dylan came last week at New York City’s Beacon Theatre, where another set of industry heavy-hitters covered and re-interpreted yet more tracks from the D-man’s time-bending catalogue.

12 Nov 2007
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August: Osage County (on Broadway): Sentimentalist Magazine Review

Disfunctional families never cease to be prime theater subjects and the rural Oklahoman, wild Weston brood, as unleashed in Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County”, is no exception. At the hellish heart of this family sits the gleefully savage and sharp-tongued, pill-popping mother, Violet Weston.

12 Nov 2007