Russell Simmons, Batman, and the Life Project for Africa.
The taxi inched towards fifth avenue as the streets became suddenly illuminated by the camera flashes of passersby. As I stepped out onto the sidewalk, I craned my head over the massive horde of people and saw the Batmobile...
Hide Who You Really Are: The Schools That are Stamping out Self-expression
Is there any phase of life more uncomfortable, self-conscious and altogether confusing than the teenage years? It's all hormones, unrequited love, body-image, self-discovery, and it's embarrassing sometimes to the point of being painful.
Conformity is one of the strongholds...
Shag Bands: “New” Craze Taking Over the Playground.
Outrage in the school yard.
Kids these days are quite clearly depraved. The "newest" fad for UK schoolchildren is to sport 'shag bands', a bunch of brightly colored plastic bracelets that, if snapped, represent varying sexual acts (pink = flash...
Are you Jewish enough?
A judge in the UK has just ruled in what, on the surface, appears to be an open and shut case on a school's admissions policy, but which seems to be dealing with a much more complicated question. Is...
Models vs Dot com Divas.
The modeling industry today has blurred the line between what’s socially acceptable as a working model and what it actually takes to be working as a model in L.A or New York. Imagine this: you're signed to one of...
‘Up in the Air,’- with Director Jason Reitman.
A late soundbite from Up in the Air tidily summarizes what George Clooney's character is all about. Mid-air, the pilot on Clooney's flight asks him where he's from and Clooney replies, melancholy, "Right here." Clooney's transitory character, Ryan...
Britney can do whatever, forever.
(a second point of view on a previous Predator story)
Britney Spears' fans seem to be a tad bit upset by the fact that she is lip-syncing her way through her Circus tour down under in Australia. Reportedly,...
Williamsburg mourns the loss of another hipster.
When falling into elevator shafts is never a good career move.
According to pain-in-the-ass Gawker, Gerhardt Fuchs, a 34 year-old drummer that played in bands including !!! and Maserati, fell to a gruesome death over the weekend when he apparently...
Debbi Schussel the newest leader of Islamophobia?
Hate and Panic in America.
Pursuant to last week's bloodbath at Fort Hood, Texas bloggers have been barraging each other with name calling, insinuations and other clever one liners that will get the most viable attention and press. That...
Thomas Barbey: In the Grip of Illusions.
Thomas Barbey is a master at mixing pictures. His art known as photo montage is the process of artfully combining two or more photographs to come up with a convincingly real art piece. For all of those who just...
The Deepness in the Shallow Pleasure of Gossip Girl.
In a world that has become superficiality first and morality and good ethics second, are what we view on the television screen as a source of entertainment, the new semblance of our selves? An all too common sight we...
Wall of Sound
U2 is a politically conscious band. This has been their thing for a while now and this is the thing that really puts the ironic spin on an otherwise ordinarily ridiculous situation. In Berlin, Germany, to celebrate the 20th...
Is Miley Cyrus Becoming an Ungrateful Brat already?
In dire need of genre clarification.
Miley Cyrus was recently interviewed where she admitted that she never heard a Jay-Z song before in her life, despite the lyrics in her "Party in the USA" track that claim ...
The Fame Game: How the Noughties Have Changed the Face of Celebrity.
As difficult as it may be to imagine, I remain confident that there was once a time when children grew up with the aspiration to be something other than ‘famous’. It seems so far-fetched that at times I have...
Hiding from the lights: What life as a vampire is really like for Robert Pattinson.
Poor old Robert Pattinson. He's learning what life is like when you can't go out in the day time for fear of being recognized for what you really are - the world's favorite teenage vampire.
No, really, I actually do...
