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Molly Crabapple Feasts us on the Erotic, Burlesque and Victorian.
In an era where we are surrounded by the massive hordes of fans who rush to the nearest Barnes and Noble to obtain a copy of the latest volume of Twilight or Harry Potter, it was a breath of...
Annabel Vartanian: Navigating the Fame Game.
You may have read about her on Page 6 of The NYPost - overblown stories concerning her involvement in NYC nightlife, her reported anorexia and fainting at a party. You may have heard of her in association with her...
The Midtown International Theatre Festival Skims the Sky’s Surface.
The Midtown International Theatre Festival celebrated its tenth anniversary season at the Bleecker Street Theatre, yesterday Sunday, June 28. On the cobblestone corner of Bleecker and Lafayette stands the theatre, with gold spray painted numbers to indicate its presence...
Semi Precious Weapons- ‘Bite Down.’
It’s a Saturday night and I’m looking at the screaming kid with the ‘Suzi Quatro/ Adam Ant’ make up and blonde white mohawk. Looking at him and wondering ‘bloody amazing.’ The problem of course is everyone else is wondering...
At the Inside B’way Beacon Awards- theater worth fighting for.
If there’s no business like show business, then there’s no place like the Player’s Club in Gramercy to celebrate its merits. A veritable shrine to the arts, with an impressive thespian lineage, the Player’s Club shone Thursday evening as...
Brooklyn International Film Festival Awards Night:How they triumphed.
Rarely considered accordingly, film can be easily considered the crux of artistic expression. Integrating all manner of emotion-piquing writing, music, performance, and visual arts into a fusion of brilliant cinematography, filmmakers are at the cutting edge of artisan enlightenment...
Sea Legs- Coney Island as a metaphor of the decay of the American Dream.
Sea Legs, a film by Craig Butta, fittingly premiered at the low-key Brooklyn International Film Festival. A quietly emotional film, Sea Legs seemed at home in the Brooklyn Heights Theater. Butta performed nearly all aspects of production of the...
Bud Blacks Aka Euro; Bitches, and all that shit…
In the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant, things are changing. The Marcy projects look like a work in progress, with concrete and asphalt piled like a catastrophe’s aftermath in the playground and park area. Pharmacies, fresh and new, are springing up...
Green Gala: “Burning Down the House.”
Everyone knows that green is the new black, and it showed at this year’s Celebrate Brooklyn Green Gala at Prospect Park. With organizers aiming to throw a zero-waste event, guests could feel good about themselves as they ate locally...
DJ Cat: Hot new PinK.
Meet Catherine Wentworth at a party or hanging out with friends and you’ll come away from the encounter thinking, “What a nice, sweet, intelligent girl.” But catch one of DJ Cat’s Pussy Parties or watch one of her videos...
The RHODES: Barreling down in your school bus…
Last Summer in Washington Square Park, unsuspecting people began to take notice of four lads in white dress shirts and black suspenders playing acoustically. Four part harmonies and many parts flawless rhythm perpetuated the park. With homage to the...
Redefining Punk: TAB comes onto its own…
There’s a moment while you’re watching "TAB the band," blasting out their fusion of glam pop, rock and Rolling Stones collage that you look at yourself, the indie set wildly bopping away, the John Varvatos suits tucked neatly away...
Brooklyn International Film Festival takes off.
If one could summarize the general sensibilty of the film that opened the Brooklyn International Film Festival last night- “Breaking Upwards,” it would be when the lead protagonist played by the director himself (Daryl Wein) turns around and looks at...
If only Frank Zappa had sounded like Electric Black…
A lot of bands begin their journey haphazardly enough, perhaps inviting a few acquaintances to their first gig and putting up inscrutable fliers here and there. But Electric Black, being Electric Black, went a little further, hitting the streets...
352 Bowery Luxury Living and Gallery 151 Dance Co go Green.
A wall of glass encases the face of 352 Bowery and peering in from the sidewalk, scantily clad twenty some things of downtown Manhattan wonder at the frenzy of the well manicured crowd within. The clan of chattering New...
