The Rest of The Story: Paul Harvey dead at 90
Casey McKinney03.04.09
The Rest of The Story: Paul Harvey dead at 90
Music: Scary Mansion
Casey McKinney03.01.09
Wish I knew what a thunderstick is, the seemingly miraculous instrument that Brooklyn based Leah Hayes aka Scary Mansion uses to make her infectious…
Talk Show 22: Allison Amend, Ryan Boudinot, Francie Lin, Ed Park, Heidi Pitlor & Nathaniel Rich
Jaime Clarke02.25.09
Cartoons, let’s see: Droopy, Huckleberry hound, Smurfs, Battlestar Galactica…too many to name. Could always get my own bowl of Fruit Loops at the crack of dawn to get cracked up on, but just as cornbread and iced tea took the place of pills and 90 proof for old Bocephus, I’m more soy milk and granola these days, and regretfully couldn’t say what’s on the tube Saturday mornings. Anyway, let’s see what these authors remember about their favorite toons as our host Jaime Clarke talks to Allison Amend, Ryan Boudinot, Francie Lin, Ed Park, Heidi Pitlor and Nathaniel Rich. Art by Danny Jock.
Elizabeth Searle on the Harding/Kerrington attack anniversary
Casey McKinney02.24.09
Yesterday was the anniversary of the infamous Tony Harding attack on Nancy Kerrington that occured during a practice session for the 1994 U.S. Figure…
Oscar Lessons
Benjamin Strong02.24.09
As the recession deepens ever more quickly, Hollywood in 2009 is already prepped for old school depression era glamor (as The New York Times has already pointed out), is claiming the musical is back, and spent a good bit of this past Sunday evening edifying all of us couch cretins about the ins and outs of its business. Ladies and Gents, the 2009 Academy Awards as seen through the lens of Benjamin Strong.
Oscar Party 2009: The Third Way
Kevin Killian02.23.09
It’s another year and another Oscar party with Kevin Killian and friends. Well in posts past there have been a few grumblings about changes in the handling of the In Memorian section (this year you just might have needed some heavy glasses to actually see who had died, but Queen Latifah was great); the issue starting to shine through in 2009 – like the high beams radiating from some Oscar night bling of yore – is that the biopic needs its own category, just too darn unfair to pit an actor playing a real person versus a made up one!
Josh Cohen on HTML Giant
Casey McKinney02.22.09
Okay so no posts lately as I’ve been trying to get my head around this economic collapse and since there’s absolutley too much to say right now…
Music: The Cramps: The Smell of Female
Casey McKinney02.19.09
Lux Interior, the “Mad Daddy,” i.e. your "Garbageman," the slithery lead singer of The Cramps passed away recently. He…
‘The Candidate’s Daughter’
Elizabeth Searle02.19.09
Say your mother is running for Vice President of the United States and you are a pregnant teenager, stuck on the campaign bus tending to your mother’s latest baby and brooding about your hockey-player boyfriend. In real life, you might feel totally trapped, but in Elizabeth Searle’s fictional version, the candidate’s daughter decides someone in her life needs a plan besides ‘Mommy and God.’ The trick is how ‘Cristal’ can give mother and the national press corps ‘the slip’ and start building her own power base. So dial back into election mode, and remember that any resemblance to actual individuals, living or dead, is purely – or maybe not so purely – coincidental. Art by Danny Jock.
Lights, Camorra, Action
Jason Jude Chan02.13.09
In case you’ve decided to make like Grandaddy and take leave of Crystal Lake (ok, they weren’t talking about the same Crystal Lake) this Friday the 13th, there are other film options for those seeking a more sophisticated night out on the town. Besides teenage sex and homicidal psychos, the most indelible archetype of film is the gangster (who also usually fit in the "homicidal" category—just not the maniacal, unkillable type)—their roles cross-culturally romanticized and cast as creatures cursed by habit, vengeance, misery, and the insatiable taste for power. We obsess over shadowy hands, and mythologize the organizations behind velvet curtains and behind MAC-10s. Here, Jason Jude Chan reviews Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah, opening today (February 13) in limited theaters.
