There were so many terrible things about Amy Winehouse’s death in 2011 at the age of 27. She was arguably the greatest singer of her generation, having produced two instantly classic albums, the jazz album Frank (2003) and the throwback soul album Back to Black (2006). Winehouse’s death was an artistic tragedy for popular music…
dvd of the week Olivier Assayas wrote and directed this gorgeous and slyly cerebral backstage drama about aging actress Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) confronting her youth. In a play 20 years before, she became famous playing the ingénue who seduces an older woman, whose love and obsession drives her to suicide. Maria is asked to…
On Netflix dvr this Michael Showalter and David Wain’s 2001 cult classic Wet Hot American Summer is funny but is particularly impressive for having cast so many eventually super-famous people: Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks and Ken Marino joined already or at-the-time famous Christopher Meloni, Janeane Garofalo, Zak Orth and Marguerite…
I don’t usually give liars a second chance but Tiger, my handsome tattooed dinner companion of three months, deserved an opportunity to redeem himself. He needed to do some explaining and a quiet booth on the airy patio at Amarin Thai was the perfect setting. Heart-to-heart conversations require good wine and I brought along a…
The song went ‘round and ‘round in your head. Maybe that’s why it’s called “a round.” You know how it works: one group starts to sing and, when they get to a certain point, the next group begins anew and so on, until the endings lap like waves. But, as in the new book Course…
thursday, aug. 6 Echo & the Bunnymen Among the most influential musicians of their generation, Echo & the Bunnymen’s inimitable sound has produced five U.K. Top 10 albums and a string of hits over the past three decades including “The Back of Love”, “Lips Like Sugar”, “The Cutter”, “Bring on the Dancing Horses”, “Bedbugs and…
When Josh Duggar apologized following reports that, as a teenager, he allegedly molested five underage girls, including some of his sisters, TLC ummed and ahed for some time before finally deciding to cancel their show, “19 Kids and Counting”. With Duggar’s confession in May, TLC waited till July before cancelling the show. The Wrap reports…
Would a family ever disown their gay son for NOT having a ‘Gay Wedding’? Matthew Ware created a comedy sketch exploring what would happen if a gay couple refused their supportive family’s demand to plan a wedding. “The SCOTUS same-sex marriage ruling is a symbolic message of equality everyone in the LGBT community should celebrate,”…
NEW YORK — STOMP Out Bullying™ announces its fourth consecutive partnership with Bon-Ton Stores Inc. for the Seventh Annual Blue Shirt Day® World Day of Bullying Prevention to kickoff National Bullying Prevention Awareness month during October. The Blue Shirt Day® World Day of Bullying Prevention is an initiative of STOMP Out Bullying™ to combat bullying and…
NEW YORK — Recording artist Sir Ivan will host his annual Hamptons extravaganza to celebrate the success of his latest Billboard hit, Kiss All The Bullies Goodbye, produced by Paul Oakenfold, featuring Taylor Dayne. The event dubbed Sir Ivan’s Royal Tea Dance will take place Saturday, Aug. 22 at Sir Ivan’s Castle and recreate the…
