Singer Storm Large Makes Going to the Dark Place Fun in Her Memoir Crazy Enough
I love a nice, juicy memoir about an insanely horrible childhood -- and Storm Large's Crazy Enough is exactly that. Large's new book is a true page-turner and details growing up with a cuckoo-crazy...
View ArticleFirst-Ever Dutch Vogue + The Flaming Lips' Record with Ke$ha and Biz Markie =...
1. Australian electro-pop artist, Gotye, is playing Saturday Night Live this weekend alongside host Josh Brolin.2. While many SXSW goers took advantage of free music, free booze and free swag at the...
View ArticleDanny Brown at Santos Party House
Hip-hop's boy-du-jour-by-way-of-Detroit, Danny Brown, fresh off a buzzy run at SXSW, stops by Santos Party House tonight to perform songs off his 2011 mixtape, XXX. He's joined by Queens rap supergroup...
View ArticleThe Morning Funnies: Larry David Being Larry David + "Bad Barbie"
Watch Larry David have an extremely Larry David-esque moment while getting trapped inside a parking garage. [via TMZ, via Flavorwire]Artist Mariel Clayton has created a series of "Bad Barbie" photos....
View ArticleTanlines' "All Of Me" Is Our Music Video of the Day
The video for Tanlines' "All of Me" features a performance mediated by a screen -- rather than playing live, the duo perform in front of an older crowd at a Soviet-era social hall via a small TV...
View ArticleLou Reed, Jamie Burke + More Fete Mick Rock's "Legends Series"
Photographer Mick Rock debuted his latest photo show in Chelsea Tuesday night, featuring portraits of iconic rock stars including Debbie Harry, David Bowie and Lou Reed, who was in attendance at the...
View ArticleHunger Games Nail Art + Blossom Stars in Old Navy Ad In Today's Style Scraps
Karlie Kloss proves models can be funny when she tweeted a side-by-side "Who Wore It Better?"-style image of herself and Will Ferrell wearing flowers on their head. [Fashionista]American Idol, who...
View ArticleThe Future is Now: A Spring Shoot from the Paper Archives
Amid all of the recent Mad Men hype, it's easy to forget that, stylistically, not everyone was as buttoned-up as the characters on the show. The '60s were also about style-upheavals: couture inspired...
View ArticleIlari Urbinati
What's that phrase -- if you want something done, ask a busy person? Case in point: Skyrocketing style star Ilaria Urbinati, whose plate is so packed, she's become the go-to gal for every Angeleno and...
View ArticleBefore They Were Mad Men: Jon Hamm
With Mad Men's fifth season premiering on Sunday, March 25th, we're continuing our feature looking back at the cast before they entered the doors of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. We already showed you...
View ArticleGeorge Lois Chats With Ricky Powell About His Damn Good Advice and Why Mad...
Ricky "Rickster" Powell is a street photographer and local downtown legend who first achieved fame as the "fourth Beastie Boy," immortalized by the Paul's Boutique raunchy couplet, "Homeboy throw in...
View ArticleSara Driver Gets Long-Overdue Retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives
One of the most compelling, original and regrettably overlooked filmmakers to emerge from the creative maelstrom of downtown New York City in the daze of yore, Sara Driver is the subject of a...
View ArticleThe Hunger Games: The Reviews Are In!
In case you've been living in a bunker somewhere, The Hunger Games premieres at midnight tonight and has already sold out advance ticket sales in 2,000 theaters nationwide, surpassing the first of the...
View ArticleAwful Library Books Is Our New Favorite Blog
Behold: AwfulLibraryBooks, a blog featuring amusingly outdated and/or just generally terrible books that are still sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country. Highlights include a creepy...
View ArticleLana Del Rey Gets Cozy With Marilyn Manson + Bruno Mars Hangs With Hef at...
1. Holy crap! A 10-year-old girl just broke the world record for weightlifting in the 97lbs division by lifting 215lbs. [Buzzfeed]2. Martha Stewart will play a private school headmistress on an...
View ArticleJoshua Foer at Book Court
Joshua Foer, an old chum of ours who also happens to be a brilliant writer, reads from his best-selling tome, Moonwalking With Einstein, wherein he attempted (and succeeded at) becoming a "mental...
View ArticleBreathless at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Breathless, Godard's first movie, and one of the most influential French New Wave films, follows an innocent-seeming young American in Paris (Jean Seaberg) who falls for a Parisian ne'er do well...
View ArticleLongchamp Debuts Footwear Line + Jennifer Lawrence's Hunger Games Dress Is...
Shoe designer Matt Bernson (who's creations have been sold in Madewell, Scoop and Urban Outfitters) is opening his first store on April 2, to be located at 20 Harrison St. in New York's Tribeca...
View ArticleThe Cars' "You Might Think" Is Our Music Video of the Day
In honor of Oldie But Goodie Friday and the fact that today is Ric Ocasek's birthday, we're making the Cars' "You Might Think" our music video of the day. For some reason this video scared us when we...
View ArticleLana Kim
Lana Kim says she's not one to quote the Bible, but on a cool January morning that's precisely what she's doing. "There's this one verse about having a calm and quiet spirit," says the 33-year-old...
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