Late last month, the Brooklyn-based band Milagres celebrated the release of their second album, Glowing Mouth (Kill Rock Stars), with a Mercury Lounge show. Keyboards and a drum pad lined the front of the stage; on the far sides, the guitarist and bassist juggled axes, tech, and tambos.
Read MoreSo I heard from a fellow blogger that you guys are opening a burger joint outside of Boston. Congratulations.
Read MoreSo comparing the phenomena of love to the quantum physics of our cosmos is pretty hackneyed. But over at io9 there is a kaleidomindscope of an introduction to the quantum universe's latest potential matter—spin liquids—that perhaps changes all that.
Read MoreThe New York Times Magazine recently published a “riff” by frequent contributor Dwight Garner arguing that “important novelists” should be publishing more frequently than once every ten years in order to be “central to the cultural conversation.” Garner’s essay was titled “Dear Important Novelists: Be Less Like Moses and More Like Howard Cosell.”
Read MoreAs you may have seen, the indie-cum-mainstream rock outfit the Decemberists recently partnered with Michael Schur to make a video for the band’s “Calamity Song” based on the Eschaton throwdown scene from Infinite Jest, in which the Enfield Tennis Academy’s younger students enact—with tennis rackets & 5 megaton tennis balls—the thermonuclear self-destruction of the modern world before it all collapses into a “degenerative chaos” of punching, tackling, barfing…and a head smashed through a computer monitor.
Read MoreSerge Gainsbourg’s music happens to have an effect on my vagina. Having an amiable relationship with my vagina, I took it last night to the New Museum to see a preview screening of Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, sponsored by East Village Radio.
Read MoreThe Guardian blog culled a list of new insults from the recently published 12th edition of the Chambers Dictionary. As an "ink-jerker" myself ("professional author or journalist"), the list put me in mind of other insults and why they endure over others. Take an old favorite of mine: fat fuck.
Read MoreAs Russia marks the 20th anniversary of both the failed communist putsch to overthrow Gorbachev and, more notably, the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chicago is in the midst of its “Soviet Arts Experience”: a 16-month-long artistic celebration of arts created “under (and in response to) the Politburo of the Soviet Union.” Featuring music, dance, literature, theater, and visual arts, the Soviet Arts Experience is a festive orgy of Soviet culture.
Read MoreWhether it's this past week's earthquake scare or last winter's infamously slow blizzard response, New York is starting to make a name for itself as one of the least-equipped places on earth to deal with, well, earth. As if we needed a bigger test, a category 1 hurricane with a grandma name is now threatening to hit the city this weekend with a force we haven't seen in a couple decades.
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