“The world’s gone mad today and good’s bad today and day’s night today and black’s white today and most guys toady that women prize today are just silly jiggalos” The thing about sitting at certain types of cafes is that you can always expect to…
Michael Fassbender first stole my heart away in the ’09 indie Fish Tank at the Athens Film Festival then later on alongside Carrie Mulligan in Shame, not to mention his intense performance in McQueen’s recent Academy award-winning picture Twelve Years A Slave. But in a different kind of role with…
I am from Cleveland so it is no joke that I’ve been a victim of a sort of emotional sports rollercoaster for most of my life: so many seasons filled with way too many SO CLOSE OH MY GOD games that it came to the point of being like,…
“And if art is a crime let God forgive all” What started as a simple phenomenon of “tagging” or “throwing up” a person’s initials on the subway along with a specific number to coincide such as that said person’s address or birthday, graffiti art started…
I always make a point to check out the current Art in the Parks series on display because they are all always equally as amazing as the next. This time, two lovely installations at Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria: 1) “Scarecrow” by Zilvinas Kempinas, a…
In the case of Vine slowly taking over the world (OK fine, it already has), the latest challenge via Mashable is asking Viners to create a six second version of a classic film using stop-motion technique. Meaning: pretty much anything goes. Simplifying a movie classic is the…
The other day I bared the crowds and ventured on up to the Whitney Museum of Art to see Jeff Koons’ latest Retrospective exhibit. And I mean, not going to lie: I’m not even that much of a die-hard Koons worshipper; I was in it…
“How wild it was, to let it be.” Cheryl Strayed is never not producing amazing works, so it’s no wonder filmmakers are eager to get their hands on the author’s fabulous stories, especially in the latest adaptation of her memoir Wild: Lost And Found On the…
Something about summertime makes it SO hard to go sit at the theater, and I say that as a movie fanatic myself. But when I saw the preview for the new James Brown biopic Get On Up starring Movie 42 superstar Chad Boseman, it’s no…
#KickGameCray When LeBron James made the decision to move on down to South Beach as a Heat player, thousands of Cleveland native hearts (self included) were broken into pieces. “How could he just leave?” we kept asking. It was madness. The Northeast Ohio city had…