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. [...]

Th Meatpacking’s sexy steakhouse STK gets even sexier tomorrow when it opens its single greatest facet: the rooftop. For its third year in a row, a seat on this rooftop on a balmy, breezy spring night at sunset promises not just watermelon salad, crisp watermelon cucumber cocktails, and a dish of mini lobster rolls, but [...]

Sofia Coppola’s much-hyped upcoming flick The Bling Ring may be the second all-star-cast-plays-teenage-girls-doing-crimes this summer, but it’s the first based on a true story involving terrible reality show alumnae. And, from the tracklist released this week, it looks like the film will have a pretty excellent soundtrack. Music supervisor Brian Reitzell has worked with Coppola [...]

Receiving an invitation to the Levi’s showroom in LA, better known as the Haus of Strauss, is like scoring a golden ticket. From the second you step into the legendary denim label’s enchanting, devastatingly stylish wonderland, you’re immediately hit with a surge of creative energy that’s impossible to resist, which is likely why brands can’t [...]