Month: January 2013

Milky Way serves as compass for dung beetles and many species throughout Animal Kingdom

At night while you’re looking up at the sky and contemplating your purpose here on planet Earth, let alone, in the entire universe, there are other little guys out there, too, gazing upon the Milky Way for some insight. Or perhaps in this particular case, for 

TRAPLOVE: Trapstar London’s delicious line of beanies and caps

The first time I came across Trapstar London was while stumbling through Instagram; Cara Delevingne was sporting her logo cap proud and I immediately fell in love with the particular style. And well, let’s just say after peeping through the UK line’s Lookbook and browsing through their 

So James Franco co-directed a movie based on 40 minutes of an 80’s Al Pacino film and things get pretty freaky

Oh boy. James Franco, who’s been pretty busy when you think about it— working on the upcoming Spring Breakers film with the beloved Selina Gomez, starring in Disney’s gigantic budget film Oz, producing a movie about a fetish website Kink.com—and well, co-directing this movie with Travis Mathews, too, apparently: Interior 

The upcoming Yeah Yeah Yeahs album cover is a pink baby eating flubber hanging from a giant purple mosquito

The upcoming Yeah Yeah Yeahs album cover is a pink baby eating flubber hanging from a giant purple mosquito

Ummm hello 1996? The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover for their upcoming album Mosquito due out April 16 is very Butthole Surfers: Electriclarryland-like mixed with hints of some inspiration from the forever rememberable art of the Nirvana Nevermind record. And I love it! An agency Beomsik Shimbe Shim thought up 

“It’s About Time”: GIRLS has a very funny season II premiere [spoiler!]

“It’s About Time”: GIRLS has a very funny season II premiere [spoiler!]

Season 1 of Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy GIRLS left us wondering about all the stuff contemporary twenty-somethings are getting themselves into nowadays, in the midst of living in a world where boyfriends propose the idea of peeing on them in the shower—in a world when 

“Dancing with People’s Food from a Dog’s Point of View”: the sounds of Cereal Banter this Friday @ Mahalls 20 Lanes

“Dancing with People’s Food from a Dog’s Point of View”: the sounds of Cereal Banter this Friday @ Mahalls 20 Lanes

The thing I love most about Cleveland is you could be out anywhere and within ten feet are amazing musicians that have been creating some of the most futuristically, mind-blowingly complex (and fucking awesome!) music out there. Lucky enough for me I happened to be 

Teddy Boys’ “Sullivan / Bad Panther” on bandcamp, full-length album Social Club due out this Spring

Teddy Boys’ “Sullivan / Bad Panther” on bandcamp, full-length album Social Club due out this Spring

The Teddy Boys have been takin’ the city of Cleveland by storm since their debut show at The Phantasy, performance with He-Chaw-Funk at Euclid Tavern, and most recently at the Agora Theatre’s Cleveland Rendezvous dance party. And now we can *finally* have a taste of the Boys 

Let’s face it: robots are smarter. And funnier.

Let’s face it: robots are smarter. And funnier.

OK maybe not funnier, but in Wired‘s “Better Than Human” article in this month’s issue, there’s really a lot to think about here as far as robots are concerned as we enter the year 2013. It used to be a thing where people would joke 

“Beast it! Beast it! Beast it!”: Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild creates its own mythological world as seen thru the eyes of Hushpuppy

“Beast it! Beast it! Beast it!”: Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild creates its own mythological world as seen thru the eyes of Hushpuppy

“In a million years, when kids go to school, they’re gonna know once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in The Bathtub.” We could all learn a thing or two from the Hushpuppies of the world—the survivors, the beasts—living day-to-day by