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Tricky: False Idols – review
Tricky's seminal debut, Maxinquaye, was released 18 years ago, but he's been trying to escape it and what he decries as its "coffee-table album" status ever since. Finally, with this 10th album, he's returned to similar territory. It begins with a version of the Van Morrison track with which Patti Smith opens Horses...
guardian.co.uk (8 hours ago)
Alec Baldwin: 'The movies are abandoning serious acting to television'
Where I've ended up, I'm pretty content. I see the people at the top of the movie business today and I compare their careers with those at the top 40 years ago. I wouldn't trade places with those that dominate today; I don't necessarily want what they have. I want the choices they have but I look at some of the...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Val Brown: Hitting 'Rock' Bottom
My Name is Val and I'm a rock-star-memoir addict. It all started with Philip Norman's seminal biography of The Beatles, Shout. I was on a years-long break between sophomore and junior year of college and had just left my job as a record company receptionist. I wasn't much of a musician and didn't see a future for...
huffingtonpost.com (4 days ago)
Arizona ban on abortion after 20 weeks struck down by federal court
A federal court on Tuesday struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, absent a medical emergency. The 9th US circuit court of appeals said the law violated a woman's constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy before a foetus is able to survive outside the womb. "Viability" of...
guardian.co.uk (4 days ago)
Controversies Threaten To Drown Out Key Obama Goals
WASHINGTON -- Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by controversies seized upon by Republicans in an effort to weaken him. The former White House insiders, including longtime...
huffingtonpost.com (6 days ago)
Obama Urged to Make Economy a Bigger, Bolder Topic
By Jim Kuhnhenn WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by controversies seized upon by Republicans in an effort to weaken him. The former White House...
thestreet.com (6 days ago)
Garry Winogrand, edited by Leo Rubinfien et al – review
To say that Garry Winogrand was productive is to dramatically understate the case. When he died in 1984, he left behind a huge archive: over 35,000 prints, 22,000 contact sheets and 45,000 colour transparencies. Perhaps more astounding still were the 6,500 rolls of unprocessed films, a testimony to a vocation that...
guardian.co.uk (7 days ago)
Where carousing crossed the line: a history
Where carousing crossed the line: a history The reason the carefree patrons of George's Log Cabin could order triple shots of Kessler at 3 a.m. while flipping off the police, state alcohol regulators, their spouses and anyone else who disapproved was simple: In addition to hosting boxing matches, San Mateo made big...
sfgate.com (8 days ago)
Landmark Gay Drama Tries On New Face For One-Night-Only Benefit
A landmark drama about a gay man’s coming-of-age during the peak years of the HIV/AIDS crisis will get a striking makeover on the eve of its 20th anniversary. Originally conceived as a solo piece in its 1993 incarnation, David Drake’s “The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me” will be presented as an ensemble show,...
huffingtonpost.com (8 days ago)
‘All the Great Prizes,’ by John Taliaferro
From the birth of the Republican Party to the Spanish-American War, John Hay was a seminal 19th-century figure.
nytimes.com (8 days ago)
Riot Fest 2013 Lineup Announced
The initial Riot Fest lineup for 2013 dropped late Wednesday to much fanfare and the general approval of its punk rock-leaning audience. Fall Out Boy, Blondie, Public Enemy, Guided By Voices, Gwar and Taking Back Sunday are among the big draws for this year's three-day combination music festival and carnival Sept....
huffingtonpost.com (9 days ago)
Belle & Sebastian's Stuart David to write a book about the band
Stuart David, a founding member of Belle & Sebastian and its original bass player, will write a memoir about his time in the seminal indie pop band.Stuart David, a founding member of Belle & Sebastian and its original bass player, will write a memoir about his time in the seminal indie pop band. The book,...
latimes.com (9 days ago)
The holy grail of Haggard lore?
Joe Saunders thought he was finished with production on his ambitious, years-in-the-making Bakersfield Sound documentary. But the documentary, it appears, was not finished with him. For tucked away and long forgotten under a pile of memorabilia in the crowded garage of his pack-rat grandfather -- seminal Bakersfield...
bakersfieldcalifornian.com (10 days ago)
Here Is Taylor Swift’s Non-Singing New Girl Cameo
For reasons passing understanding, Taylor Swift's New Girl cameo - which took place at a wedding, and which involved Taylor Swift interrupting the wedding to (spoiler alert) run off with the groom - did not involve the seminal Taylor Swift call-off-the-wedding song "Speak Now." (Imagine Schmidt singing "Speak Now"...
vulture.com (10 days ago)
Ricky Gervais Revives The Office's David Brent for YouTube Series—Watch Now!
Ricky Gervais fans, rejoice! The British comic is once again resurrecting David Brent, the seminal character he played on the original BBC version of The Office-this time for a new...
eonline.com (11 days ago)
Austin Considine: Basquiat's Biggest Fan
When art dealer Tony Shafrazi needed to promote a unique two-man show at his gallery in 1985, he devised one of the most iconic images in contemporary art history: On one side, a waifish Andy Warhol stands in a t-shirt and boxing gloves, one glove tentatively raised like a cat's paw; beside him stands the...
huffingtonpost.com (11 days ago)
Tectonics – review
It opened with four bass drums, dangly ping-pong balls and an amplified sine wave. It closed with sci-fi fantasy tunes and a blast of spectral acousmatics. Glasgow's inaugural Tectonics festival – two days of experimental music hosted by the unflappable BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its principal guest...
guardian.co.uk (11 days ago)
Steve Hackett – review
What is the best way for a seminal band to preserve their musical legacy? The answer probably is not for one of their members to spend the latter part of his career obsessively rerecording and tweaking their repertoire, and touring it as the fulcrum of what is effectively a glorified tribute band. Steve Hackett,...
guardian.co.uk (12 days ago)
As I Lay Dying Trailer: James Franco’s Southern Accent
Just to be clear, As I Lay Dying isn't James Franco's movie about that famous bondage porn studio - it's his adaptation of William Faulkner's seminal novel. Where many directors might be reticent to take on a book with fifteen different characters acting as narrator, Franco's ambition overwhelms any sense of ... More »
vulture.com (12 days ago)
Cornel West: 'They say I'm un-American'
Cornel West, the firebrand of American academia for almost 30 years, is causing his hosts some problems. They are on a schedule but such things barely move him, for as he saunters down the high street there are people to talk to, and no one can leave shortchanged. Everyone, "brother" or "sister", is indeed treated...
guardian.co.uk (13 days ago)
Slayer says guitarist died of liver cirrhosis
Guitarist Jeff Hanneman of the seminal heavy metal band Slayer died of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver, and not as a result of a flesh-eating bacteria, the remaining members of the US band said.
abc.net.au (15 days ago)
Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman died of liver cirrhosis -band
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Guitarist Jeff Hanneman of the seminal heavy metal band Slayer died of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver, and not as a result of a flesh-eating bacteria, the remaining members of the U.S. band said.
reuters.com (15 days ago)
Abe Gurko: The Galliano Conundrum - Part Deux
Just when John Galliano thought it was safe to go back in the (fashion) water, rather get out from drowning under water, comes The Galliano Conundrum - Part Deux. The Galliano Conundrum started that fateful day two years ago when John was drowning his sorrows in a pub in Le Marais when his barrage of hateful...
huffingtonpost.com (15 days ago)
Ennio Morricone sued as guitarist's daughter seeks a few euros more
Rarely have a few notes on a reverb-drenched guitar defined an entire film genre, but half a century on, the twangy riffs of Ennio Morricone's soundtracks are for many the perfect expression of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns. Which is why an Italian woman is suing for the €800,000 she says is due to her father,...
guardian.co.uk (15 days ago)
Rising iOS 7 web traffic may hint at impending Apple OS reveal
The next iteration of Apple's mobile iOS operating system could be just around the corner, if recent data is any indication. Mobile site conversion company Onswipe reported today that it's seen a big increase in iOS 7 traffic to the sites it monitors. According to Onswipe, traffic from iPhones and iPads running iOS...
techradar.com (16 days ago)
Rising iOS 7 traffic may hint at impending Apple reveal
The next iteration of Apple's mobile iOS operating system could be just around the corner, if recent data is any indication. Mobile site conversion company Onswipe reported today that it's seen a big increase in iOS 7 traffic to the sites it monitors. According to Onswipe, traffic from iPhones and iPads running iOS...
techradar.com (17 days ago)
Herbert Blau, Iconoclastic Theater Director, Dies at 87
Mr. Blau, a champion of the new and avant-garde, was a founder of the seminal Actor’s Workshop in San Francisco.
nytimes.com (18 days ago)
Ballet Star Dies At 98
NEW YORK -- Frederic Franklin, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States and performed until his mid-90s, has died. He was 98. Franklin succumbed to complications from pneumonia on Saturday at a Manhattan hospital, according to his lifelong partner, William Ausman. Franklin last...
huffingtonpost.com (20 days ago)
With 'Gatsby,' Luhrmann rolls the dice - but as a filmmaker, he always has
Baz Luhrmann is returning to the big screen on May 10 with his new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal Jazz Age masterpiece The Great Gatsby. Trailers and TV spots for the project showcased an over-the...
examiner.com (20 days ago)
PHOTOS: Park Renamed After Late Beastie Boy
NEW YORK -- A New York City playground where the late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch learned to ride a bike as a child has been renamed in his honor. City officials on Friday rechristened Brooklyn's Palmetto Playground as Adam Yauch Park. Yauch's parents and fellow Beastie Boy Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz attended the renaming...
huffingtonpost.com (21 days ago)
