For those of you who spent their teens or early adulthood enjoying the pleasures of Dr. Martens boots, moshing and pogoing, and blistering punk, the promise of a feature-length documentary on the Bad Brains, one of the pillars of the Washington D.C. hardcore is a welcome blast from the past. Formed in 1977, Bad Brains is that rare all-black ... Read More »
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Chinese Government Bravely Fights Scourge of Pajamas in Public
If we had to write up a list of things that need changing in China, the world’s most populous and oldest country, we might focus on issues of humanitarian rights, slave labor, environmental pollution, or banning Jackie Chan films. But, as recent tensions over the renaming of a treasured mountain peek after an “Avatar” location revealed, the Chinese have ... Read More »
Fanatic Turns To Web To Fund and House “The Art of Akira” Exhibition
Not only are we used to directing you to the real-life physical locations of your favorite movies with our “Film + Travel” series, but we’re also accustomed to directing you to exhibitions held in solid, brick-and-motor galleries and museums. When it comes to the planned “The Art of Akira” project, however, neither the locations caught on the displayed film ... Read More »
Lord of Norwegian Black Metal Releases First Post-Prison Album As Documentary Sheds Light on The Scene
In some music scenes around the globe, like the many detailed in our “Music + Travel Worldwide” guidebook, are bright and inviting, full of cheerful talented people who want nothing more than to share their songs with the world. In others, fans spend their spare time cutting themselves and burning down churches while musicians make soup out of each ... Read More »
David Byrne, Fatboy Slim, and Florence Welch Set Imelda Marcos’ Life To Music in First “Here Lies Love” Single
Forget about Madonna in “Evita”. No single musical project dedicated to telling the life story of a despot’s wife has featured as many stars as Fatboy Slim and David Byrne’s new concept album with accompanying book, DVD, and other materials, “Here Lies Love” (as least, none that we know of). The tale of Imelda Marcos’ rise to fame and ... Read More »
Jackie Chan’s Banned ‘Shinjuku Incident’ Arrives In U.S. Theaters
Most of those who love their Kung-Fu flicks lost faith in the world’s biggest movie star, Mr. Jackie Chan, sometime around “The Tuxedo” (2002). While most of Chan’s catalog leans toward the humorous side of high kicks and throat punches, the actor, director, and producer, now 56, has become more notable stateside for child-tailored pablum (i.e. last month’s “The ... Read More »
Giacometti Sculpture Walks Off With Record-Breaking $104.3 Million Auction Price Tag
From the perch of an auction-house seat, you might think that the world economy was flourishing, that bankers and bus drivers alike were in the black and in the chips. Last night, a Alberto Giacometti bronze statute, “Walking Man 1” (above, left) netted $104.3 million at a Sotheby’s auction in London, handily breaking the pre-recession record of $104.1 million ... Read More »
Rarely Seen Picasso Surfaces at $112 Million Christie Sale of Munch, Van Gogh, and Others
Pablo Picasso was no slouch—in his 92 years, scholars estimate he created over 50,000 works (1,885 paintings, 4,100 sculptures and ceramics, and some 12,000 drawings.) As many of his pieces appear in museums, thousands more are in the hands of wealthy and not-so-wealthy collectors. Still, the sale of his “Tête de Femme (Jacqueline)” (detail, above), a 1963 portrait of ... Read More »