Arts

The rolling hills and mountains of Southern California, the biosphere, the range of climates from desert to snow covered peaks roamed by mountain goats in one cable car ride the soaring mountains over the sea, the vertigo of a place prone to earthquakes, fire, floods, mudslides, a virtual sim city in real time, life on

\ Sultry haze of balmy nights. The Egypt-born, Quebec-based singer/composer/producer Nadah El Shazly has built a following in recent years with a blend of club music experimentation and Arabic tradition. She’s been a big part of the rich and exciting music coming out of the Beirut / Cairo / Istanbul triangle (Karkhana, Praed Orchestra!) as

People frequently (that is, once every few years) stop me on the street and ask me, “George” (no one really knows who I am), “should I be listening to jazz?” My first response is always, “absolutely!” Then, when they ask me why, this is what I tell them (again almost never happens, but it’s good

Film festivals love to profess their indie bona fides, regardless of how institutional (Tribeca) or industrial (Sundance) they’ve become. (The only exception: Cannes, which absolutely, unapologetically trumpets its status as a glitzy party for superstars and the uber-wealthy.) But a festival that truly embraces the DIY spirit is the New York City Independent Film Festival.

Michael Jones has worked in many different industries — as a manager for Brooklyn synthpop duo Holy Ghost!, at Vice Media in the early days of online video, in the emerging New York City 2010s tech scene at places like Cameo and Dash, and then doing brand development for a company transforming small business lending

In her book-to-screen take on Bonjour Tristesse, writer Durga Chew-Bose crafts a lush atmosphere as meticulously and stylishly as she did in her 2019 essay collection Too Much and Not the Mood. It’s not easy to adapt one of the more beloved pieces of 20th-century literature, and Chew-Bose had the additional shadow of Otto Preminger’s

Of the artists who rose from the 1980s East Village to prominence, Mark Kostabi is certainly in the top tier, and among the few survivors who deserve the appellation maestro. There are others of course: Jeff Koons, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Eric Fischl. Though Kostabi – like Warhol, Picasso or Dali in the

Later this month, Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning, the eighth entry in the series, hits theaters, and it’s teasing in every way that it will be the last big screen adventure for Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his venerable team of Impossible Missions Force agents, among them Luther (Ving Rhames) and Benji (Simon Pegg). Or, at

When the Cornelia Street Café announced its closure in 2018 after more than 41 years of operation — due to a crushing rent increase — the loss was acutely felt by the neighborhood and the community of artists who called the café basement stage home. For co-founder and owner Robin Hirsch, though, losing the place