Helado Negro's Newest Release, Double Youth
I first encountered Helado Negro when Roberto Lange's ensemble included more people than could comfortably fit on a stage. ( I was invited to the show by my friend the brilliant musician Jason Ajemian...
View ArticleBurqas, Bikinis And Blow Jobs: My Life As a Muslim Woman in the West
If there's one thing I'm an expert in, it's lying. Growing up in the U.K., in a conservative Pakistani Muslim family, I got plenty of practice. I told my first lie when I was seven. The beneficiary of...
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Creating 1854
Griot -- cover for Sisters of the Spear. Painting by Andrea Rushing. Used with permission. As I write this article, President Obama is a neighbor, just some miles down the road. Meanwhile, in my old...
View ArticleLive and Dangerous: Bestival 2014
This edition of "Live & Dangerous" takes us across the pond to one of the UK's most acclaimed music festivals -- Bestival. The award-winning four-day festival has been held on the stunning Isle of...
View ArticleChris Trueman on the ImageBlog
“RTZ”, 60” x 48”, acrylic and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 2013. “The Forest From the Trees” – an exhibition curtated by Joshua Dildine and Chris Trueman at White Box Contemporary...
View Article10 Rules for Succeeding In Hollywood
1. When you come to Hollywood you have to think, "what am I going to give," not "what am I going to get." Most people come to LA to "get" things. They want something. Hollywood will not respond to you...
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I Contain Multitudes: Brian Martinez
There was something in his face. I kept going back to it, over and over again. Was the sound off, or was he slurring? His words were unclear. It was out of sync. Wasn't it? Cut that bit. But no. The...
View ArticleQuestions on Dramatic Monologue
Who is speaking when the actor speaks? The self or the other self, as Bakhtin would have it? The ego or the alter ego, as Ionesco put in Notes and Counter Notes? Or is it the mazes of consciousness,...
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Buffalo Bills Fans Huddle to Block Hail Mary Pass to Canada
After the death of founding owner Ralph Wilson last March, the National Football League's Buffalo Bills were put up for sale. It's fairly unprecedented for a team to wrap itself with a "For Sale" sign....
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Photographing Iconic Coney Island
The concept of Coney Island as an outdoor photo studio is nothing new. Famous and not-so-famous photographers alike have been trekking over the sand there since the very beginning. There is a lot to...
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The Last Days of Summer
As summer winds down, many of us along the east coast are thinking of making one final trip to the shore, a thought shared by our ancestors as well. The New Jersey shore, accessible in the late 19th...
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Finding Art in Everyday Life
Some people just know they are good at something. They find it while they are young, they find it easy and they excel. Not me. I love being creative, but I have never considered myself an artist or...
View ArticleThrough the Eyes of the Youth: Filmmakers Without Borders
Right now, a child sits on a pile of rubble in Syria with a fistful of sand sifting through his fingers remembering the day armed ISIS militants abducted a man from the streets -- a man we all know as...
View ArticleWhy It's Okay to Mourn Robin Williams
I know, that in this day and age, guilt takes over when we let the Kardashians take over our Sunday afternoon instead of spending time donating to breast cancer research or volunteering for Habitat for...
View ArticleRap Was Bloated With Champagne
"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed." -- William Gibson There is a whole generation of young people who would have been entering the job market for the first time...
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An Afternoon of Following 'Art Everywhere'
Hollywood, 1968 by Edward Ruscha provided by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, located close to the intersection of S. Military Trail and Summit Boulevard in West Palm Beach, Fla. Sometimes you...
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Drawn at Sea
At one time the entirety of the worlds oceans hung in the skies as immense storm clouds. Churning about above the Earth's surface that existed only as molten magma sending any rain that fell back to...
View ArticlePoet Slams Daughter's Twitter Hater
Shame + embarrassment + grade school. These three words unfortunately seem to go together don't they? Now add in social media's catch fire response to toxic gossip and our daughters are in peril of...
View ArticleMiddle East Film Festival Politics
They say that film transcends borders and countries, this might be true about the films, but not about the politics that go into presenting these films. Film festivals are often put in the line of fire...
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From Crane Operator to Artist: How a Homeless Man Is Transforming His Life
As my mailbox becomes inundated with flyers advertising extravagant Labor Day sales, I can't help but think about all of the people who became unemployed in the recession. How have their lives...
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