For those of you who are a tad forgetful, this past week saw what would have been The Notorious B.I.G.’s 41st birthday. The legendary MC was born Christopher George Latore Wallace in Clinton Hill near the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn on May 21st, 1972. He rose to prominence in the early to mid 90s before being murdered in Los Angeles on March 9th, 1997. Despite his brief career, The Notorious Read More
The weather continues its bipolar tantrums, but it’s photo series like these that remind us that the days of warm temps and consistent blue skies will be here anyday now. Created by Monika Ottehenning, House Bird gives us that quaint summer feeling.
Photographer and filmmaker, Bryan M. Ferguson, creates a series of marred masterpieces that almost seem to train the eye. Despite the astute photography, the geometric graffiti nearly steals the show. You find your eyes caressing the ride of the line, almost forgetting the presence of the photograph.
I walked into Another Life expecting to be brainwashed by left wing liberal proselytizing. After all, the play was being hosted by an “experimental” off-off Broadway theater in the East Village and its subject matter confronted the George W-era U.S. torture program. But the play’s solid foundation in facts (the three torture stories in the play were based on real testimonies of Iraqis imprisoned in Abu Ghraib) left me feeling Read More
Remember our coverage of Die Wunderkammer at The Lodge? Well, there was a brilliant talk between artists Hayley McCulloch and Paul Brainard. Unfortunately we didn’t get a chance to film the talk, but we did get our hands on a transcribed version of the talk via a shady, trench coat wearing stranger who threatened to kill us if we ever acknowledged their existence. So, without further ado, we present the Artist Salon Read More