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FYF Music Festival 2014: Up Close
Last weekend FYF Fest celebrated it's 11th year as a quickly-growing Los Angeles staple music festival by kicking things off in their brand new location: the LA Sports Arena and Exposition Park. The...
View ArticleI Choose To Walk
I've always found that walking is the best way to truly understand a city. Unencumbered by the need to keep moving as in a car, one is free to pause when they please and really take in all the city's...
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In the Yellowstone Valley, a Beet Farmer With an Artist's Soul
Montana Avenue in Billings is a startlingly urban raft on the vast, grassy sea of rural southern Montana. It has microbreweries, artists, a cowboy hat-fixing genius, solar-powered lofts, and huge...
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War, Aliens and Porn Stars: Bringing Vonnegut's Children's Crusade to the Stage
Adapting a book for the stage can be tough. Especially if the book jumps around in time and involves trips to an alien world inhabited by single-eyed beings bearing more than a passing resemblance to...
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Why Museums Are Very Cool and Should Be Visited Often
It's often easier to talk about visiting museums than it is to, ya'know, actually visit them. Between work, the gym, dinner, something else always seems to comes up. It's so much more convenient to...
View Article15 Minutes With Slash
It's the summer of 1988, and I'm in New York, watching a beautiful girl in a white bikini climb through a window into her apartment. We've just spent the day together, and she's lost her keys and...
View ArticleFar Far Away
Hacking War Songs, new video for my SXSW 2015 panel http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/38176 Far Far Away from Jasmina Tesanovic on Vimeo.
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'Kelly and Cal': A Fresh Look at Disabilities in Film
It has been a while since a true indie grabbed my attention like Kelly and Cal which opens in theaters this week and is playing tonight to a sold out audience at The JCC in Manhattan. Juliet Lewis...
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Best of Venice: Talking Melbourne With Payman Maadi and Nima Javidi
Kicking off the International Critics' Week sidebar of the Venice Film Festival, Iranian film Melbourne set the tone for all great things, and movies to come for me. Melbourne starts off with a census...
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A Tour of Hemingway's Cuba
Anyone with a serious desire for an intimate look at Cuba would do well to sign up for a tour sponsored by the intrepid Finca Vigia Foundation in early December. It's the first-ever such expedition for...
View ArticleBurning Man 2014
My last trip to Burning Man was in 2008. On my return this year, I found it had changed not for better but for the worse. The week-long festival in the desert used to bring out the best in its...
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Authentic and False Images of Jesus in Artworks
Painter and architect Rod Borghese and I conceived a triptych consisting of three images of Jesus based on the painting Christ in a Landscape by 16th-century Dutch Renaissance artist Jan Swart van...
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Burning Man Isn't Perfect -- How to Come Home
Kurt Hahn, the founder of Outward Bound, shared a story about how he was shamed by a student after returning from a wilderness adventure he led. "You took me out there, but you didn't teach me how to...
View ArticleWATCH: This Sister's Tribute To Her Autistic Brothers Will Make You Rethink...
Faith Jegede speaks passionately about the beauty of being different in this short, inspiring ode to her two autistic brothers. Forget being normal, she says: Be extraordinary. We want to know what you...
View ArticleAmir H. Fallah on the ImageBlog
In The Clutches Of Tennessee 5x4 feet acrylic, collage, colored pencil, and oil on paper mounted to panel For more information about the work of Amir H. Fallah go to: Amirhfallah.com,...
View ArticleToronto Notebook: In Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas Really 'Gets' Women
Well, the annual Toronto sprocket opera is once more upon us, with its legions of critics who wish they could osmose into three separate beings to view the must-see films all scheduled at the same or...
View Article"The Wayside Motor Inn": A Drama for 10 Voices by Gurney
The travelers who check in at The Wayside Motor Inn, A.R. Gurney's engrossing 1977 play, now in an absorbing revival at Signature Theater, are a disparate band, all looking for love in one way or...
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Hamilton Leithauser Chats Post-Walkmen Black Hours
High school marked my musical awakening, a time when I started to really construct my own identity outside of my mom's water-damaged Cat Stevens records, my dad's old Johnny Cash, and the popular boy...
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Margaret Ouchida: Stories, Legends and Realms
Art history, ecclesiastics, fabulism and a profound delight in materials conspire in the studio of Margaret Ouchida. Her engrossing mixed media light-and-shadow boxes (which she calls "box animation")...
View ArticleCirque du Soleil's Amaluna: A Lost World Where Women Reign
On an island deep in the ocean mists, the moon rises over a mythic world where women rule the winds and tides. Cirque du Soleil's Amaluna, now playing at Washington D.C's National Harbor, captures the...
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