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Atarah Valentine.Caught between darkness and lightness.
Coming to watch Atarah Valentine sing is like coming to watch theater. A Chekhov production with pathos, unrequited love, whirling vignettes, the wailing of a cello, synthesized drum beats and the angelic voice that crushes you after he takes...
Conversations with Paul Hutcheson.
We sent out Kat Hepburn this past weekend to the Frigid Theater festival. What follows is a diatribe on drunken sex, why we secretly love tranny porn, the concept of beauty, monogamy, identity, and the choices we make and...
Batsheva Dance Company leaves us Mesmerized at BAM.
Curtain rises, absolute stillness. Women are in a deep knee bend in front of men, statis dripping in the air between them (and us, the audience). Waiting, waiting. An audience member coughs. Another. We are holding our breath. And...
Rogues, Rebels and Renegades: The Art of an Outlaw Interview with Filmmaker Hilton Ruiz.
This past Tuesday afternoon I made my way to the Lower East Side to visit filmmaker Hilton Ruiz for a private screening and conversation about his as-of-yet unreleased documentary, Rogues, Rebels and Renegades: The Art of an Outlaw. Admittedly,...
Amanda Lepore: More than a Woman.
Call her beyond life size, freak, transcendental icon, night life host impresario, seductress extraordinaire, pop star or savvy business woman galore this femme fatale has us wondering if you’ve all got it wrong and somehow right too. More real...
Jen Marden – All she wants to do is Party. Tonight on MTV.
We here at Scallywag and Vagabond have been discerning a very interesting trend lately. That of young women 'acting' either like young brats (or maybe just being one in real life), with social access to the right clubs, venues,...
A NIGHT OUT AT IONA; Trying to work out who ROBERT BURNS is?
Robert Burns I confess is someone I knew very little about until last night. Seminal Scottish icon and poet, this dashing lad had us all by the throats. Never mind that he’s been dead for just over 200 years....
FUERZA BRUTA; Dissecting perception, force and beauty.
Theater has always compelled and empowered the reinterpretation of our most primal needs, fears, and brutal aspirations. In this provocative interview our resident writer Kat Hepburn sits down with one of the performers Hallie Bulliet of Fuerza bruta to...
Amy Redford; Inspiring civil discourse; “Guitar,” her directorial debut, a sojourn to mortality, self expression and affrirmation.
I recently caught up with Miss Amy Redford pursuant to her showing of her directorial debut “Guitar,” at the Hamptons film festival (the film’s American premiere was held at Sundance- the NY launch at the East Village’s Sunshine cinema...
The redemption of Dominick Dunne; After the party. A diatribe on fame, failure and celebrity.
What is fame, celebrity? What is it about fame and celebrity that keeps vast amounts of us addicted to it, keenly aware of it and ultimately glorifying it, some of us, especially in the case of a Mr. Dominick...
“How I learned to love Richard Gere.” A diatribe on the allure and burden of fame.
Whilst at the recent ‘Hamptons Film Festival’ this scallywag had the good fortune to sit down and talk with the director of the UK premiere short; “How I learned to love Richard Gere,” Detsky Graffam. Written by and starring...
The Travails of the Iconic; in Front and Behind the Cinema.
Seeing that 'Scallywag and Vagabond' (SCV) is a start up perhaps it would be appropriate (even though SCV is still trying to come to terms with what that word actually means…) to cover in its newest ambitions the careers...
