Fallen Soldier tattoo above on US Marine Sergeant Inman, done at Hart & Huntington, via Grunt.com.This Memorial Day weekend in the US is a time to commemorate the men and women who died while in the military service. There are......
A comparison of two weddings, first Kris Humphries and now this...
Frederic Franklin, who died at 99 last May, was one of modern ballet’s most irrepressible figures. ...
"Everything looks better in black and white," Paul Simon once mused. The music legend had a point -- life tends to look better through a monochromatic filter, one that subtly hides the world's flaws and accentuates its beauty. The many shades of gray can turn even the most mundane of memories into stunning portraits, making a simple Sunday in the park look like a still from a retro film set. Such is...
Illustrator Don Moyer's brilliant series "Calamityware" takes old school porcelain china and adds a classy touch of what they've needed all along... crazy monsters. He had us at " Voracious sea monster threatens tranquility of traditional blue dinner plate ." Moyer's series spruces up the tradition of classy and utterly dull chinaware by introducing UFOs, dinosaurs and volcanoes into the mix. The result,...
I'm amazed at the amount of people I've been able to meet while in Cannes and the insight I've gained. Last year the festival for me was all about one incredible Palestinian film and the filmmakers behind it, whose journey I followed all the way to the Foreign Language Oscar race. This year, I found out all about the cinema commissions in Dubai and Abu Dhabi (the latter, where the current Star Wars...
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Ian McKellen may be about to have a blockbuster smash hit come out in the form of the "X-Men: Days of Future Past," but the LGBT icon is also receiving a whole different form of honor from a group of dedicated fans. The New York-based non-profit queer geek group Geeks OUT recently announced "McKellen Me Softly," a one-night art show and party celebrating the prominent queer actor. The night will involve...
Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this week. 1. A Thai soldier is reflected in a puddle as he guards a road near a pro-government protest on the outskirts of Bangkok, May 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn) 2. Firefighters take part in the...
CANNES, France (AP) — The Chekhovian Turkish drama "Winter Sleep" was awarded the Palme d'Or Saturday at the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival. Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan accepted Cannes' top honor, handed out by Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman. In his speech, Ceylan alluded to the recent mining disaster in Soma, Turkey, in which 301 workers were killed. "I want to dedicate the prize to the young...
They both grew up gay in Denver, and both found themselves through music, but there was darkness along the way. As they collaborate for the first time, Hercules's Andy Butler and the singer-songwriter John Grant share their story. The following probably happened: 1994, Denver, Colorado. Andy Butler, aged 15, red hair and toast-rack cheekbones, hangs out at Twist And Shout , a local record store. There,...
Hopes grow that much of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Arts and Crafts masterpiece has been saved...
With a career spanning nearly 35 years to her credit, longtime Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) costume designer Deborah M. Dryden was recently selected by the Theatre Development Fund (TDF) as the 2014 ... Read Full Post ...
The impact of just the right costume in creating film iconography -- and beyond, in the realms of theatre and television -- was recently examined at a conference entitled "Who Designed Marilyn's Dress?" hosted by the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development on May 2, 2014. ... Read Full Post ...
The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) announced this week that it will be kicking off its summer season with an exciting lineup of exhibitions and programs including an in-depth exploration of Set Design . This summer, WCMA, The Clark, and MASS MoCA are inviting visitors to make the most of the area's vibrant arts community in the Berkshires. ... Read Full Post ...
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The Brooklyn-based indie songstress is at her most vulnerable on her stripped-down album Are We There...
Actor-director revels in strange subject matter – has-been gigolo beds rich women – for the purpose of taking his audience somewhere...
Hot off the critical acclaim for In a World …, of which she was writer, director and star, Lake Bell currently appears opposite Mad Men’s Jon Hamm in Million Dollar Arm, a film about a struggling sports agent who recruits a pair of young cricket players from India to try their arms at baseball...
When it was announced 20 years ago this week that Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, a pop culture Moebius strip of a movie centred on two nattering contract killers (John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson), had won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, the air of triumph in the room was punctured by catcalls of 'Scandale!' and 'Fasciste!'...