The Tribeca Film Festival is but a few days away and what better way to kick off the festivities than with the highly-anticipated new music-fueled documentary Mistaken for Strangers. Directed and conceived while on tour with The National, filmmaker Tom Berninger—brother to the band’s frontman Matt Berninger—takes us on the tour behind High Violet, where he joined [...]

If you don’t know who Crybaby Presents is, get familiar. The Los Angeles-based clothing brand is known for crafting out-of-the-box garments for retro-inspired girls that never take themselves too seriously, because snobby style is simply boring. To drive Crybaby’s fun-all-the-time vibe home, founders Dakota Solt and Lisa Ziven has just released an adorable new video [...]

Los Angeles is no stranger to new health fads. In fact, the well-to-do areas of SoCal sprawl are like the Nevada Proving Grounds for fringe vitality treatments, bizarre diets, cosmetic surgeries, and creative workout regimens. Colonics (that’s where they put a hose up your butt and flush your colon and lower intestine with a blast [...]

Last week, we reported that Rachel McAdams would be joining the cast of Cameron Crowe’s next untitled film—which is said to be a in the heartfelt vein of Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire. The news was a welcome relief after the disappointment of his last few films, features I found terribly unsubstantial, leaving my love for the wonderful writer and [...]

Buenos Aires’ Shoah Museum is the only museum in South America focusing on one of the most horrifying periods in history, necessary work to educate a city, a country, a continent as the number of people who actually lived through this time are becoming few and far between. Which is why its recent marketing campaign [...]

Ryan Murphy, who is currently represented on television with three scripted shows (American Horror Story, Glee, and The New Normal), is added an HBO series to his roster. Open, which is described as “a modern, provocative exploration of human sexuality and relationships,” has gotten a pilot order from the network. Collaborating with Dexter co-executive producer [...]

Last week I embarked on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure: a seven-day mother-daughter trip to Europe. While variations on The Family Bonding Trip exist­­—father-son, grandparents-grandkids—the mother-daughter voyage is a special breed. It’s a time when diets are broken, shoes are bought, and the Oh-my-gosh-I’ve-become-my-mother realization hits around day five. But what made my mother-daughter trip special was [...]

People of the San Francisco Bay Area! Are you fed up with the BART? Do you want a means of conveyance that will announce your presence long before you drive up? Do you want a highly inconvenient but memorable vehicle and give approximately zero hoots about maintenance or fuel efficiency? You’re in luck because the [...]

Admit it: not living in Brooklyn means your entire sense of the place derives from New York Times trend pieces and HBO comedies. Happily, a more nuanced study of the borough arrives on May 21, courtesy of Bridges Powerlines. Their Better EP contains five tracks evoking neighborhoods from Green Point to East New York. And [...]

Yes, Baz Luhrmann’s musical decisions for his grandiose adaptation of The Great Gatsby may seem a bit bizarre—with Lana Del Ray and UK EDM act Nero thrown in the mix—but you know, I get it. Many a time I have dreamt of my absolute ideal opening film sequence in great detail and the only song [...]