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Mercedes-Benz New York City Fashion Week, September 2009: One Madman’s Musings After a First Time in the Tents
The past week I was tardy because it was Fashion Week, the week before it was Rock Week, the one before I got a girlfriend, and the one prior I joined Tau Zeta Kappa. The models outside of the shows have all been posing, for me I thought, until I realized that they in fact were not and instead were flashing their tights for middle-aged photographers, though not from the middle ages, and these girls/photogs were too professional to be of an age.
Lebowski Fest Abides in Manhattan at Lucky Strike
The Lebowski Fest, now in its eighth year, rolled into New York City this week. Following on from the movie screening at Terminal 5 Tuesday night, your intrepid reporter paid the bowling party at Lucky Strike (42nd St. & 11th ave) a visit last night. The White Russian’s and oat sodas were flowing, the hardcore were testing their skills against fellow “achievers” in the annual quiz, and there was bowling. Lots and lots of bowling.
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend @ Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY, 2.20.09 and 2.21.09
The shows took place at the beginning and the end of the world, on Kent Avenue in Brooklyn at Glasslands, a windowless venue that we found to be at fire code capacity early on Friday night. This event began in May 2007, with this particular installment organized by Arthur Arbit (also King Gurvy) and Tom [...]
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.
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…
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…”
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
