Filmmakers are finding it harder and more expensive than ever to film scenes in the disappearing “dank alleys” of Manhattan. (HuffPo) Refinery29 has a sneak peek of Todd “The Selby” Selby’s new photo-book tours of the fashionable homes of fashionable people. (Refinery29) SXSW will play host to an award honoring what is often the best part of ... Read More »
When he died somewhere on the Tuscan coast in 1610, 38-year-old painter and provocateurMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio had already brushed the heights of contemporary artistic fame, struggled through rejection by Roman patrons, fled the law after committing murder, and perhaps found his way back into the aristocracy’s good graces. Somewhere between this talented troublemaker’s first and second acts, death ... Read More »
Don’t have time to get to the Armory Show? Browse through the best of it with this slideshow tour. (World’s Best Ever) For those of you who are more familiar with “The Legend of Zelda” than New York geography, this 8-bit map of the five boroughs should be fairly straightforward. (Gothamist) All those frequent-flier miles you’ve racked ... Read More »
If you’ve ever thumbed through an edition of our “Music + Travel: Worldwide” guidebook to musical scenes from around the globe, you’d know that we have a soft spot in our hearts for the bouncing Afro-Pop beats that flowed out of the Africa starting in the 1970s. Specifically, we’ve dedicated an entire chapter to “Ethiopop”, the heady mix of ... Read More »
Long the king of Manhattan-based comedy movies, Woody Allen returned to his native island for last year’s “Whatever Works” after a five-film, five-year stand shooting films in England and Spain. Alas few of the New Yorkers who usually turn out for the Brooklyn-born director’s real-estate-porn and upper-class-ennui smirkfests bought tickets to the critically panned “Whatever Works”, leaving it with ... Read More »
We don’t know where you are, but over here in New York, flights are grounded, streets are filled with snow, and the best place to get away from it all is the cineplex. Here we run down the movies hitting the theaters this weekend and the locations they’ll take you to. Hopefully it’s somewhere sunny and warm. Read More »
The posters for this year’s Baftas remind us that despite all our advances in digital manipulation and focus groups, marketing was just better 40 years ago. (/Film) Thom Yorke and Flea’s new superband, Atoms for Peace, hits the road. (Brooklyn Vegan) Roger Ebert reminisces about the years he lived in London’s soon-to-be-replaced Jermyn Hotel. (Guardian UK) ... Read More »
Having been reared on a steady diet of sugar, John Carpenter, and Wes Craven as children, we’ve become a little desensitized to Hollywood’s often stale attempts at horror. Sure, once in a while something wicked pokes its head out of California (did you see “House of The Devil” yet?) but for real screams, we often have to turn our ... Read More »
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