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The Descent of Modern Theater.
In it simplest form, theater is the idea of relaying a story between actors and an audience. Its appeal until now has been its...
Teenage Paprazzo: GenArt Film Festival NYC Premier.
GenArt, according to their twitter page, is “a national organization dedicated to showcasing emerging fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians and...
Byron Janis: Pianist gone Novelist, a Poet.
Byron Janis: Exhibits the Victorian romanticism, of Lord Byron—a poet, hero—enmeshed, delicately with the desperation, power and charisma of Janis Joplin.
Music infused with the...
5 Popular Songs Misused in Hollywood Films
Let's say you're Leonard Cohen. Brilliant Canadian songwriter whose lyrics provide calm, patient insight into issues of religion, love, intimacy, and the human condition....
“How I learned to love Richard Gere.” A diatribe on the allure and burden...
Whilst at the recent ‘Hamptons Film Festival’ this scallywag had the good fortune to sit down and talk with the director of the UK...
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...
Tonie Swain: Teenage Pop Star you’re finally going to adore.
To be up front we here at Scallywag and Vagabond usually have an aversion to two things - teenagers and teenage pop stars. Yet...
Patti Smith belts it out for the American Folk Art Museum at Espace.
This past Saturday I had the sheer pleasure of being entertained, nay mesmerized by the immortal Patti Smith who with her...
Down and dirty with Eric Holness and the underground beat at Bedstuy.
To the un- initiated the mere mention of Bedford Stuyvesant sends most people running for the hills and wondering why anyone in their right...
Lil Poopy, Cocaine Cowboy: 13 year old rapper lands Sony deal
Luis Rivera Jr aka Lil Poopy signs on with Sony-Epic. But is the entertainment company treading a slippery slope given the youth's risky subject...
Flavio Alves: Provocative Film maker and ex political asylum detainee.
Sometimes, at certain moments, one can gaze upon the fresh, supple beauty of youth and see nothing but consumption and death. This is not...
Notes for New Actors; The Brutal Truth.
From the outside it looks so glamorous. The conservatory training, infinite passion, creative collaboration - not to mention the beautiful bone structures and svelte...
“Mean to Me”, a short film starring super model Agyness Deyn.
Walking into the most western tip of 25th street, this past Thursday evening at Cheim & Read, I didn’t know what to expect. I mean sure...
THE SEA INSIDE. An EXISTENTIAL PARABLE.
This fall, BlueMouth, Wooster Group, PS122 and the French Institute want to expand your reach as a human being. Can you...
Never before seen pictures of the Rolling Stones just before they hit it big...
Pictures of the Rolling Stones just starting out have been discovered in a Southern Californian estate, the photos which show the group clean cut...
