Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation is most famous in the design crowd for its futuristic advertising campaigns–absolutely gorgeous (and totally campy) illustrations of all the…
A lovely soul at Music Vault (a beautifully curated YouTube channel) has uploaded some amazing footage of Patti Smith from a 1979 show at the…
It is with blurry hindsight that we mourn theatre culture long since passed, fabricating memories of a show business that was simultaneously more passionate, yet…
Kubrick at 21, then a visionary photographer for Look magazine Stanley Kubrick was a man of wildly variant yet intensely focused interests. He was never…
Obviously one of Sontag’s espionage-related disguises Writer and intellectual Susan Sontag is usually remembered more for her cultural criticism than for her political activism., Although…
Usually, I’m pretty forgiving of social media gaucherie. I’m off Facebook, which certainly helps, but when it comes to Twitter or Instagram, I figure it’s…
Stippes Bar, “Home of the Hungarian hot dog,” is something of an institution in Malmö, Sweden, a diverse, formerly industrial city known for its large…
That man is Randy Jones, best known as the original cowboy from the Village People Yes, the Jesus Christ Superstar tour that was to feature…
Recently Google launched an absolutely amazing Street View tour of all 286 miles of the Grand Canyon, captured from the very waters of the Colorado…
When the movie Frances Ha came out, named for its choreographer protagonist, I had hoped for a renewed interest in modern dance–perhaps a small, young…