I think my friend at the record company sold me a bill of goods. “Jillette can drink me, you, and all the Virginmarys under the table,” he told me. I had my doubts, but was willing to give Jillette Johnson, the fetching young singer-songwriter, a chance. Yet here we are at Rogue Canon, sampling no [...]

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“That feeling of home but not home, somewhat but not quite—all that plays a part in what I would hope to be the emotional content of my music,” says the strange and wonderful Nico Muhly. “There’s always a sense of displacement and longing.” Wildly intelligent and feverish in nature, the 31-year-old composer is as prolific [...]

I first fell in love with Fall on Your Sword when their incredible score for Mike Cahill’s Another Earth took that film from a metaphysical and emotional science fiction wonder to indie masterpiece. It’s a soundtrack I’ve listened to an infinite number of times in the last two years, and since, the guys behind FOYS, [...]

In honor of the national holiday that is National Burger Month, I’m devoting Fridays to the world’s love for the juicy, dripping beast that is The Burger. First honored were the weirdest burgers, then the smallest burgers, and today, I’m honoring NYC’s BIGGEST burgers. Oh yes. Size matters. Take a look at these big boys: Murder by Burger from Marble [...]

Weddings can be really hard, you guys! They’re hard when you’re the person planning them, but often can be just as trying is merely attending the affair. There’s the out-of-town arrangements, the booking of hotels and flights and rental cars because they decided to get married on a ranch in East Jesus Nowhere, Georgia, the [...]

It’s hard to imagine–but somehow Philippe Starck still refuses to just leave well enough alone. To be sure, his newest restaurant project (in partnership with Paridis du Fruit founder Claude Louzon), Miss Kō, is plonked along Paris’ most haute boulevard, the Avenue George V–yet it appears as if lifted from some surreal X-Box anime game. [...]