The Unrecognized Greatness of the Mexican National Poet
Millions of Mexicans know Ramón López Velarde as the author of Suave PatrÃa, the national poem of Mexico and a modernist masterpiece, but few inside or outside Mexico know about the extraordinarily...
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Remembering 9/11: The Story Behind Chi Modu's Towering Tribute
Somber. Soaring. Stern. Eerily silent. Chi Modu's breathtaking portrait of the late hip-hop legend Notorious B.I.G. resonates as powerfully as ever on this Sept. 11 anniversary. "This image helps...
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Michael Flomen's Wild Nights: Photos That Pulsate With Nature, Life and Sex
Los Angeles art lovers, if you haven't had a chance yet to visit Boîte Noire Gallery in West Hollywood's Pacific Design Center, you should head over there soon. The recently opened gallery's...
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Timeless Architecture at Audemars Piquet's La Maison des Fondateurs
Photo courtesy of BIG. I often say that watchmaking and architecture are akin. Probably the most irrefutable reference for this is assertion is Le Corbusier whom emerged from his training as a...
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Calling All Minds: Table Talk With Benjamin Moe
Photograph by Divyank Jain Benjamin Moe, 21-year-old co-founder and editor-in-chief of Table Talk, sneaks about the dimly lit corridors of a coal factory in rural Jaipur, tacking CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS...
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The Option of Sensing the City
Second in an illustrated series about place-decoding from the South of France. How do we decipher this story of port-side people, buildings and who lives where? Which senses are key? Place Decoding:...
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"Lisa Adams: The Difference Between Human Nature And The Human Spirit," Duke...
Photos courtesy of Lisa Adams and CB1 Gallery. Everything's here. A modern art lexicon. Figuration. Audubon birds, the texture of tree trunks, the cotton candy wispiness of cumulus clouds. Things hover...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Cera, Culkin, Gevinson Distinguish 'This Is Our Youth'
In Kenneth Lonergan's revived 1996 play, This is Our Youth, a Steppenwolf production transferred to the Cort, what specifically does the playwright mean by "this"? Well, he sees the three characters as...
View ArticleReThink Review: The Skeleton Twins -- Movie Siblings (Finally) Done Right
Considering the fact that most people on the planet have siblings, you'd think that the movie industry would do a better job of portraying sibling relationships. But as far as I can remember, only two...
View ArticleThe Great Songwriter and Producer Bob Crewe Dies at 82
"I'm hearing it in sky blue. You're giving me brown." So says a real-life character named Bob Crewe in the play and movie Jersey Boys. He's producing a recording of the song "Trance" by Billy Dixon and...
View ArticleI Took My Kids to the Jeff Koons Retrospective (Oops)
My family had an opportunity to visit New York City for a full week recently. It was the longest my husband and I (the Lo half of Em & Lo) had been there since having kids. Before breeding, we'd...
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Confessions of a Serial Songwriter: Say Cheese
One day I took a picture of my daughter and her first love. She looked so happy in it, like the sun bursting through the clouds. I gave the photo a name. I called it, "This is how you make me feel."...
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A Timely Show on Mirrors Intrigues in Vienna
Exhibition view "The Other Side" Marble Gallery Photo: Gregor Titze, © Belvedere, Vienna. Throughout art history, the significance of the mirror has changed and adapted. Classical civilizations...
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The Hung and the Restless
For many years, gay characters in films were doomed to die a gruesome death. Whether they were brutally murdered or a tree fell on them, death was the only logical methodology for dealing with the...
View ArticleA Plea for Taking Advertising Seriously
If had a dime for every time I've heard someone say, "Oh, I don't pay any attention to ads. I don't let them affect me," I'd be very rich indeed. Truth be told, ads do affect us -- and often in ways...
View ArticleWhy Every Writer Should Take a Humor Writing Class
Maybe you're a journalist, maybe you're trying to write your novel, maybe you're a blogger or a copywriter or maybe you're working on your memoir. Or your cat's memoir. Whatever or whoever you are,...
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9 Iconic Movie Sets, Starring ...The Antiquities Act
Written by Denise Ryan, Director of Public Lands Policy An R2-D2 figure visits Death Valley National Park (also known as the planet Tatooine in "Star Wars"). The Antiquities Act may sound like a dusty...
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Why I Made a Documentary About What It Means to Be 11
Tell anyone you spent six years traveling the world interviewing 11-year-olds for a documentary, and the first two words you'll get are always the same: Why 11? The opening scene of I AM ELEVEN...
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I Contain Multitudes: Jessica Romoff
In my early 20's, I had the distinct honor of meeting and working with an actress named Viveca Lindfors. Viveca was 72 and Swedish. She'd been in a bunch of films and starred on Broadway, and she'd...
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Uniquely Asian, uniquely modern, proudly classical: Ballet Philippines to...
As the ballet world struggles to remain relevant and to stem the exodus of an audience that would rather sit at home and watch dance in 90-second spurts on SYTYCD than dress up for the opera house,...
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