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Scene B Seen (Free subscription) | yesterday
As a rule of thumb, I do not go out in NYC on the weekends, especially not to the movies. However, I was willing to elbow my way through the crowds at Regal Cinema Union Square this Friday night to view the New York City Premiere of Splinterheads . Motivators:a stellar cast including; Lea Thompson , Christopher McDonald , my fave bad boy Dean Winters , Rachel Taylor , and the much buzzed about newcomer-...
Louise Baldock (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Part of our Kensington Remembers series of fortnightly Diversity Films Free entrance - film and dicussion afterwards Tuesday, 10th November 2009: “Paragraph 175” film. Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, 2000. Chair: Tommy McIlravey, Manager, Sahir House & Chair, LGBT Network. Commentators: Gary Everett, Festival Director, Homotopia; Paul Amann, Trustee to Outsiders Film Festival, &...
starbuck0295y | 11/06/2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) –A major new photography exhibit is built around the idea that the eyes are just as important as the ears for appreciating and understanding rock 'n' roll. The Brooklyn Museum's sprawling show "Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present" opened on Friday as a study in the contrasts that run through the rock music subculture. Nearly 200 photographs,
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
It's possible that no band better defined the aesthetic, attitude, or ethic of Touch & Go's 25-plus-year history than the Jesus Lizard did. The label's 50/50 business model, first started by Factory Records in England, gave the underbelly of American music a creative vehicle it had never had before, with the backing of Chicago, America's closet cultural metropolis, to support the music on a local...
Superhero Hype (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
IGN has debuted four character posters for the Matthew Vaughn-directed comic book adaptation Kick-Ass , opening in theaters on April 16. The action-adventure, based on the Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. comic, tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good superhero...
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
IGN has debuted four character posters for the Matthew Vaughn-directed comic book adaptation Kick-Ass , opening in theaters on April 16. The action-adventure, based on the Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. comic, tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good superhero...
CinemaSpy (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
IGN has debuted four character posters for the Matthew Vaughn-directed comic book adaptation Kick-Ass , opening in theaters on April 16. You can check out one of the posters directly below; clicking on it will take you to IGN for the others. Meanwhile, Lionsgate brought the official website for the film online at IAmKick-Ass.com . The action-adventure, based on the Mark Millar and John Romita Jr....
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
“It’s not a subculture here,” said Barnett, who heads the Mountain Valley Unified School District. “Marijuana is drying in their houses. It’s falling out of their pockets.” It’s capitalism in action, but on the other hand…
Frozen Tropics (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Daily Candy highlights the Ten Miles Square Fotoweek DC event at Industry Gallery. The Gallery won't officially open until next year, but this is your chance to sneak a peek at the space. Industry Gallery is located on the second floor of Conner Contemporary (1358 Florida Ave). Join Ten Miles Square and the Pink Line Project at Industry Gallery with the work of nine local photographers for the second...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated to feel like they’re on the outside looking in. But geeks aren’t born; they’re made. And sometimes it only takes the right starting point to bring newbies into various intimidatingly...
Wild Tyme (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I'm a big fan of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's work, and have written about them on this blog before. So I was really happy that they were willing to chat with me at the MCM Expo. I kept the discussion entry-level, as this was going up at Den of Geek, but it was nice to be able to get an overview of their work, and ask Kieron about his upcoming comic for Avatar - The Heat - for which I believe...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A library opened in Tokyo last weekend featuring traditional "manga" comic books that were popular nearly half a century ago and a rare collection of romantic manga for women. The Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture, which opened Saturday at Meiji University's Surugadai campus in Chiyoda Ward, is stocked with most comic books published in Japan in the 1960s and later....
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
How easily we forget. We get caught up in the health insurance fight, we game the Beck-Palin subculture, we chatter about Israel and Iran, we obsess about marriage equality ... while the voters who do not do politics for a...
Ned Batchelder's blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
For Halloween, Ben dressed as Link from the Legend of Zelda video games. We made a shield for him in a hurry, with corrugated cardboard and colored electrical tape. It was pretty good for an hour's work. But hchiu completely outdid himself on a similar task: Life-Sized Link , 831 pieces printed on 197 sheets of paper, cut, folded, and glued into a life-sized statue. OMG!! BTW, there's an entire subculture...
Gadling (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Hope everyone's enjoying what's on Gadling today, from stinky Asian food to A Critical Mass Halloween in San Francisco to an informative post and gorgeous photo gallery about Auckland, New Zealand. Now here's a look at what else is going on in the travel world today... This video about frequent flyer mile hoarders has been making the rounds-- it's a peek into a small subculture I knew nothing about,...
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starbuck0295y | 11/06/2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) –A major new photography exhibit is built around the idea that the eyes are just as important as the ears for appreciating and understanding rock 'n' roll. The Brooklyn Museum's sprawling show "Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present" opened on Friday as a study in the contrasts that run through the rock music subculture. Nearly 200 photographs, videos,...
supplemeq | 09/21/2009
Vegetarian Diets Can Be Unhealthy for You People who do not eat meat are quickly starting to become a subculture. The “to eat meat or not to eat meat” debate is starting to look a lot like the smoker vs. Vegetarian Diets, vitamin supplements http://www.eat-healthy-live-healthy.com/vegetarian-diets-can-be-unhealthy-for-you
galile7li | 09/21/2009
People who do not eat meat are quickly starting to become a subculture. The “to eat meat or not to eat meat” debate is starting to look a lot like the smoker vs. nonsmoker debate. Vegetarian Diets,Unhealthy,vitamin supplements http://www.eat-healthy-live-healthy.com/vegetarian-diets-can-be-unhealthy-for-you
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