Good news for all of you who missed Coachella, have an iPhone, and love artisanal carbs – tomorrow (Saturday, May 4) the Red Bull Music Academy presents the Spring 2013 edition of the Brooklyn Flea Record Fair at East River State Park in Williamsburg. Get ready for music in all its forms—vinyl, CD’s, DJ’s, drunk [...]

“The thing I love about David Lynch is, his films feel frightening and debauched but in very lush landscape. Like, wow this is horrendous but oh, I love it,” says Katherine Mills Rymer. And as one half of moody electro-pop duo OOFJ, I can’t help but surmise that their music exists in that same Lynchian [...]

Tonight, as part of their The Works: Karen Black retrospective series, Nitehawk Cinema will be showing Bob Rafelson’s 1970 classic Five Easy Pieces. The film was not only one of the greatest cinematic achievements of New Hollywood but also provided the perfect vehicle for Jack Nicholson to showcase what frighteningly rich talent was lurking inside [...]

In NYC, Thursday nights are taken very seriously. Between the hours of 4pm and 6pm, offices across the tri-state area are abuzz with the dynamite question: “where are we starting our weekend tonight?” And when it comes to a sun-drenched, 72-degree day like today, the answer is unanimously “somewhere we can eat guacamole-filled tacos, pork [...]

Fact: will.i.am can’t stop working. A founding member of Grammy-winning hip-hop/pop group the Black Eyed Peas, the 38-year-old multihyphenate’s growing list of titles include songwriter, entrepreneur, DJ, record producer, and philanthropist. His latest venture is EKOCYCLE—a eco-focused initiative with Coco-Cola that drives  brands to produce items made in part from recycled materials. The latest brand [...]

Inspired by European cinema from Bertolucci to Visconti and with a lust-filled saturation of color and texture, Xan Cassavete’s Kiss of the Damned is not your standard undead fare. Her bloodthirsty debut harkens back to old-school horror with a psychosexual tale and that’s both visceral and decadent. Mixing eroticism and terror, Cassavetes thrusts you into a story [...]

Thursday nights are a curious beast. Like starter fluid, they have the capacity to set fire to your entire weekend – one night before it officially starts. They’re the appetizer to your entrée. The foreplay to the fun. And in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, a new Thursday night party is kindling that has all the [...]

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of catching an Olivier Assayas double-feature ay 92YTribeca. They first screened his beautiful new film Something in the Air, followed by his poetic 1994 feature Cold Water. Seen side by side, the two work as wonderful companion pieces to one another with striking similarities—aside from just the character names—but [...]

When you think of iconic 1960s cinema, its the work of Jean-Luc Godard that pops to mind first. And after his era-defining free-form homage to the American films that inspired him, Breathless—a film that would go on to spark the start of the French New Wave—he took the genre even further with his 1964 classic [...]

The supreme artistry of Mark Mahoney comes in three layers. His look: The Boston-born, Los Angeles-based tattoo icon’s signature style involves meticulously sculpted pepper-hued hair, blindingly white teeth, piercing blue eyes, and a flawlessly color-coordinated outfit that consists of at least one piece of ridiculously rare vintage. This time it was throwback Gianni Versace grey [...]