If it's time to re-read Giovanni's Room and you want to set the mood, James Baldwin's record collection has been turned into a 478-song playlist on Spotify. Writer and Hammer… Read the rest of the article: Listen to James Baldwin's record collection on Spotify
We've lost another brilliant visionary. British filmmaker Michael Apted has passed away at age 79. In 1964, Apted turned his camera on to capture the hopes and dreams of 14… Read the rest of the article: RIP Michael Apted, director of the decades-spanning documentary series Up
Like most Americans, I know Stacey Abrams as an accomplished politician, lawyer, and voting rights activist. It was only this week that I discovered her passion doesn't stop with politics.… Read the rest of the article: Stacey Abrams, registering voters and ripping bodices
From the country that brought you a theme park featuring a dog fart rollercoaster comes "John Dillermand", a Denmark public television children's series featuring a man with a long, snaking,… Read the rest of the article: Children's television show about a man with a giant penis
Is this a dream or a nightmare? It probably depends on whether or not you caught 2019's psychological thriller The Lighthouse (one vote for nightmare) and whether you were sober… Read the rest of the article: Watch a film festival alone in a remote lighthouse
Artist Juliana Notari has unveiled her latest work Diva, a 108 foot tall cement vagina sculpture, installed by hand by over 20 people on a hillside in Pernambuco. Though her… Read the rest of the article: A giant hillside vagina is causing a stir in Brazil
These gyrating, mashed potatoing robots might be your answer for a virus-free New Year's date. Robotics pioneers Boston Dynamics have just released a new video featuring four of their remarkably… Read the rest of the article: These robots are programmed to tear up the dance floor
Every time I contemplate ditching social media, I remember all of the great artists I've stumbled across that I may not have found otherwise and resign myself to a life… Read the rest of the article: Luke McGarry's hilarious gag comics got me through 2020
Dance pioneer Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quiñones has died at age 65. Quiñones was part of the Lockers with Toni Basil, a dance crew that introduced locking to the world. An original… Read the rest of the article: Rest in Peace, dance legend Shabba-Doo
Harriet the Spy was a YA fiction inspiration who possessed all of the ethics of a TMZ reporter. A young Upper East Side miscreant, Harriet's curiosity and ambition leads her… Read the rest of the article: The extraordinary queer life of Harriet The Spy author Louise Fitzhugh
Like all things 2020, New Year's Eve is going to be hitting a little differently this year. No sidewalk revelry, no swapping spit with strangers on the dance floor, no… Read the rest of the article: 1983 boner comedy 'Get Crazy' could be your next New Year's Eve tradition
Timbaland and Swizz Beatz created Verzuz TV to keep us entertained with virtual DJ and MC battles while we're stuck in pandemic purgatory. Since March, they've streamed battles between the… Read the rest of the article: The E-40 and Too $hort Verzuz battle is more popular than Christmas this year
The Bee Gees' ethereal harmonies have always hit me in a special place and Robin Gibb's voice in particular is one of my all-time favorites. He was like a gangly… Read the rest of the article: Robin Gibb's pyromania and other trivia left out of the new Bee Gees documentary
When she's not in her tattoo studio, New Orleans artist Jamie Winn is creating haunting automata pieces that are truly a delight. The painted wood pieces featuring both nature and… Read the rest of the article: These spooky kinetic sculptures are mesmerizing
It's the uplifting "Where are they now?" file we all need to hear right now. Back in 2012, a Japanese macaque monkey named Darwin entered pop culture history, and all… Read the rest of the article: Good news: Ikea Monkey is living his best life
Many have tried and all have failed to create a proper holiday pop song for Hanukkah that is both educational and possesses a nasty bass line. Luckily for us, funk… Read the rest of the article: This deep funk Hanukkah song is a holiday classic in the making
Is this what Voltaire meant went he spoke of the best of all possible worlds? When I saw the Lifetime movie poster online featuring Saved By the Bell actor Mario… Read the rest of the article: A Lifetime mini-movie about Colonel Sanders (presented by Kentucky Fried Chicken) is apparently real.
Two years before he first basked in the art world's limelight with his set and puppet design on Pee-Wee's Playhouse and Art Direction on Peter Gabriel's "Big Time" video, artist… Read the rest of the article: Pee-Wee's Playhouse artist Wayne White makes a surprise appearance on David Letterman, 1984
The City of Aurora, Colorado is attempting to get a court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Elijah McClain, who died in August 2019. In case you… Read the rest of the article: City of Aurora files to dismiss Elijah McClain wrongful death lawsuit
I discovered Athens-based cartoonist Patrick Dean through Devlin Thompson, owner of the celebrated mainstay comics shop and weirdo refuge Bizarro Wuxtry. I became an instant fan of Patrick's loose and… Read the rest of the article: Cartoonist with ALS uses eye gaze-tracking technology in order to continue creating.
