Fashion Alexander McQueen We Miss You!
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
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Featured Video Talk Derby to Me…
The L.A. Derby Dolls and Chicago’s Windy City Rollers battled it out at the Red Bull Banked Jam event in Chicago, where the roller derby sport all began. Watch the two teams compete on a banked track, and find out who won the event.
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Music Girls in a ChinaShop: Caroline
New Year. New Music. New Favorites. ChinaShop handpicks the Women to Watch in 2011. Don’t sleep…
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Music Dan Charnas: Strictly Business
Dan Charnas witnessed and participated in hip-hop’s explosive growth from a 1970s New York subculture to its status today as one of the world’s most predominant cultural movements. The New York native worked for record labels and was a journalist, both helping promote rap records that mattered and discussing them in the media.
Charnas’ just-released book, The Big Payback: The History Of The Business Of Hip-Hop, is a must-read for anyone serious about hip-hop culture and its evolution. In the following Q&A, Charnas discusses the genre’s growth, how it was able to thrive and how he would like to see it presented.
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Film The 5 Must-see Movies of 2K11
On average, there are seven new movies released in cinemas every week, that’s roughly 400 a year and clearly nobody has the time (or money) to watch them all. As 2011 dawns and a whole bunch of new cinematic endeavours vie for your attention, we’ve whittled down the list to the real essentials for your viewing pleasure…
127 Hours
A director who has rarely steered us wrong throughout his illustrious career, Danny Boyle follows up the Oscar-baiting Slumdog Millionaire with this based-on-true-life tale. James Franco stars as Aron Ralston, an extreme sports nut who, in 2003, fell into a canyon in the Utah desert and found himself trapped under a boulder for the titular time period. Quite literally caught between a rock and a hard place, he was forced to choose between a slow death or hacking his own arm off. With a helmer and a star both at the top of their game and a compelling premise like this, we can’t think of a better way to kick off the cinematic year… Released January 7.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orxtqKeHEOs
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Music Girls in a ChinaShop: Mr. Little Jeans
New Year. New Music. New Favorites. ChinaShop handpicks the Women to Watch in 2011. Don’t sleep…
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Art/Design Guerrilla Artist Crochets Over New York City Landmark
Just before Christmas in 1989, Arturo di Modica, a Sicilian artist living in New York City, recruited a few friends, loaded his sculpture, “Charging Bull,” a 7,000-pound, 16-foot-long bronze bull, onto a flatbed truck. They transported it from his studio to Wall Street and deposited it, without permission, in front of the New York Stock Exchange. The sculpture was swiftly removed by the city the next day, but due to public outcry it was reinstalled at a location nearby, where it has since become a neighborhood landmark (and judging by its prominence on Flickr, a popular tourist attraction).
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Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases from Schiller, Bon Jovi, Cher, and Jake Shimabukuro
Another epic week of releases…but Schiller and Class Actress have two albums out that are getting some serious Internet buzz, and the former is about as close to 1987 Depeche Mode as you’re gonna get. If you dig that sorta thing…and for others, there’s always Bon Jovi who’s got his 100th album out…and the death/screamo stuff of Skin Culture. There’s a lot more new stuff coming out next week, so keep hope alive…
Schiller – Breathless
Jake Shimabukuro – Peace Love Ukulele
Skin Culture - The Earth Spits
Class Actress – Journal of Ardency
Cher - Icon (Greatest Hits)
Bon Jovi – Live at Madison Square Garden
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Art/Design You’re An Idiot for Buying This: The SUCKADELIC Art Toy Universe
The Boo-Hooray Gallery reluctantly announces the first SUCKADELIC retrospective gallery exhibition. Intentionally confusing, misleading, disappointing and really funny, these limited-edition parodies of action figures reverberate with a vicious wit and are oddly eyeball-pleasing in the manner of all kinds of toothsome 20th/21st century collage and montage art. The toys and their aggressively situationist piss-take packaging comment on pop culture commodification and the consumer habits of compulsively shopping kidults: The very process that made KAWS, Takashi Murakami, and Michael Lau art-stars on the Art Basel Miami/Armory Show/Venice Biennale tip.
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Music The Cutting Edge Music of Chico Mann
It’s rare to hear music for the first time that sounds completely new, yet at the same time very familiar. It’s like running into an old friend years later. That’s what happened when I listened to Chico Mann’s latest album “Analog Drift.” Elements of rhythm, instruments and vocals echo recognizable sounds, but are arranged in a way that I could never have fathomed. Think Black Eyed Peas, only without the Fergie, and actually fresh.
Categorically speaking, Chico Mann blends Afrobeat with Cuban music (naturally, because of his Cuban decent), funk and heavy synth. What that translates to is funky, super-chill, Latin-flavored music you can lounge or dance to, depending on your state of inebriation. But to fully comprehend the New York-born artist’s sound, words wouldn’t do it justice. It’s something that has to be experienced. Check out his site www.chicomann.com to listen to his creation, but before you do, read his thoughts on dance battles, his greatest influences, must-have playlist and vuvuzelas. Seriously.
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