Matthew Barney does the Morgan Library (really?) Amid the art-world big top pin-wheeling through the month–double Koons shows, FRIEZE-alooza, etcetera–the most unlikely of artist to keep it on the down-low is the typically-exhibitionistic Matthew Barney, showing his mesmerizing drawings at … Read More
Check out the new documentary on trippy but influential ‘60s guru Father Yod and his howling Ya Ho Wah 13 band. A pretty neato new documentary which opened this week at Manhattan’s IFC Center in New York –and coming to … Read More
Jane Alexander’s half-human, half-beasts are creatures to behold. Now bow! We mentioned John Newsom’s “Bestiary” as a great mother-of-nature exhibition to check out this week, but an altogether different menagerie can be found at the Cathedral Church of St. John … Read More
Spring’s page-turners range from the real king of pop to the real king of the tennis courts, with some dinosaurs and sizzling meat in-between. 1. “Anyone Who Had a Heart” (Harper), by Burt Bacharach with Robert Greenfield. The memoir of … Read More
The de-lovely DeNiro-founded hoo-hah is coming round the bend. Hollywood East lands hard in downtown’s most fashionable zip code, from April 17th-28th, when the TriBeCa Film Festival premieres. Seats are flying out of the theaters and private screening rooms and … Read More
Stray from the Fairgrounds to hit the hottest gastronaut night-nabe in the city: Bywater The fest this year runs on the weekends of April 26th-28th and May 2nd-5th. Just south of the French Quarter and the Marigny Triangle–and a bike … Read More
Get your work done now. The return of Blur, Stone Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Phoenix, and lest we forget Franz Ferdinand, Dinosaur Jr. and our favorite…Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, as well as countless bands we aren’t … Read More
Photographer-music videomaker Samuel Bayer reveals nudes portrait show. Through April 27th, the Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills is showcasing full-scale black-and-white nudes photographed by award-winning music-video director Samuel Bayer (Nirvana, Green Day, Justin Timberlake), in his first photo exhibition entitled … Read More
For Thompson Beverly Hills the “In Los Angeles, Everything is 20 Minutes Away” rule simply does not apply. Located on legendary Wilshire Boulevard, Thompson Beverly Hills lays at the heart of everything the 90210 has to offer. From contemporary macrobiotic … Read More
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band plays New York’s McKittrick. And, no noodlers, they, they rock the house. There is a misunderstanding that this legendary New Orleans band is somehow quaint or anachronistic. Note to music purists: This isn’t your grandfather’s … Read More
The great ‘60s street-style photographer’s work showcased in the new William Klein: ABC book. This book is beautiful and gritty and sexy. A visual survey of William Klein’s career–with images shot in New York, Rome, Moscow, Tokyo, and Paris–there’s 196 … Read More
LED-ing man artist Leo Villareal flips the switch on world’s largest light installation of its kind on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge. Brilliant light artist Leo Villareal wowed crowds this week with his “Bay Lights” LED installation, comprised of 25,000 LED … Read More
Johnny Depp corrals an A-list of B-sotted crooners for his salty sophomore follow-up to 2006’s Rogue’s Gallery. CD of the week, indeed. Tom Waits, Keith Richards, and Shane MacGowan unofficially helm the just-released seafaring rudder of “Son of Rogue’s Gallery: … Read More
Christopher Walken gets snubbed for Best Supporting Actor, and we’re mad as hell. Okay, so what’s not to like about Tommy Lee Jones, Alan Arkin, Christoph Waltz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Robert DeNiro, this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Supporting … Read More
One more for the road, ‘Big Sur’ promises to blow all the other Jack Kerouac vehicles away. First looks at tonally-harmonious director Michael Polish’s film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “Big Sur”–which debuted last month at Sundance–are all visual, no dialogue, … Read More
