Carl loves Chicago and sets some of his works there, including Idylls of Complicity, his latest novel and the second of a trilogy: the first being Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming and the third on which he is currently working
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Leave it to a Werner Herzog film to leave you with some big questions, even if they aren’t necessarily related to what’s on screen. For the majority of this reviewer’s first viewing of Herzog’s latest film, Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World,
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On a fine spring day in the Chelsea district, I was recommended by someone to visit the Printed Matter bookstore on Tenth Avenue near 26th Street, that there was an exhibition
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The East Village Eye is in the high-brow section of what’s happening in New York City for its recent provocative discourse. The magazine that published all that was fit to print about art, music, books and politics in the East Village from 1979-1987 is back in business this month at Howl Happening for “It’s All True: The East Village Eye Show” lasting until the ninth of October along with a brand new special edition of the magazine.
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Michael Lewis was certainly not the first Wall Street insider to wake up with a conscience one morning and write a kiss-and-tell book to get a mind-bending revelation off his chest: Banks collude with the government and financial “experts” to rip you off. Whodathunkit, huh?
Read MoreJade Sharma’s Problems starts out like many alt lit publications: protag lives in city, protag has crazy neighbors, protag does drugs and fucks a lot, but still has depression somehow, and so the soul-searching begins.
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It’s the summer of 2016 and Tammy Faye Starlight is Nico Underground and it is the show to see! I caught her at David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center for free! A dazzling gifted performance artist /singer who you would suspect has supernatural powers the way she channels Nico.
Read MoreJohn Dean interrupted my regularly scheduled Sesame Street when you were getting turned on to grass i was watching Vietnam on TV when you met Agent Orange and he stuck to you like glue i didn’t know i just heard it was the word
Read MoreAFROFUTURISM, The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, from Ytasha L. Womack (a multimedia artist) will have you wanting to step on a star ship, meet androids, robots, extraterrestrials, and travel through time.
Read MoreIn playwriting (or screenwriting) there is a golden rule that if a gun is introduced onstage it has to go off by the final curtain. In EQUITY, the first movie about Wall Street to be written, directed, produced and financed by women, there is a gun that doesn't go off and the silence is deafening.
Read MoreThe Trump campaign is a current example of emoting power. The strategy was practiced by many before, the most recent example being Berlusconi.
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Zero days is a documentary by Alex Gibney about Stuxnet, a computer virus discovered in 2010 that was almost undeniably the work of the the U.S. and Israel attacking the Iranian nuclear program.
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Orchids in the moonlight
Don't scream
Just be
Serene
Oh, were Mark Lombardi alive today! Two stories broke last week—one by Bloomberg on how a right-wing Colombian hacker who, in league with a Miami-based political “consultant,” worked to throw elections to conservative politicians throughout Latin America.
Read MoreWhatever hope there is of ending racism in this country rests, and has always rested, on solidarity.
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