Tweet Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo confirms via an interview with Rolling Stone what fans of the landmark punk band Sonic Youth have been speculating since co-founders Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore announced in October the end of their marriage…
Month: November 2011
The Morning Feed: Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim Free After 36 Hours in Cairo Prison
Tweet Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim is free this weekend after spending 36 hours in Cairo’s Tora prison on charges of throwing Molotov cocktails and destroying public property while covering Egypt’s political protests. Noujaim, who co-directed the documentary Startup.com, about the rise…
The Morning Feed: Gamers Unite at Sweden’s DreamHack Winter 2011 Festival
Tweet Black Friday has an entirely different meaning at the Elmia Fair in Jönköping, Sweden where close to 200,000 gamers, developers and digital artists gather for the world’s largest LAN (local area network) party. The 24/7 DreamHack party includes esport…
The Morning Feed: H&M Announces Versace Spring Collection Coming January
Tweet H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) released some conciliatory news for all the shoppers who decided not to camp out last week and arrived too late at stores emptied of all the Versace designer goodies. The style website Refinery 29 reported…
The Morning Feed: Yacht Captain Offers New Details in Natalie Wood’s Death
Tweet The L.A. County Coroner ruled Hollywood actress Natalie Wood’s death a drowning accident 30 years ago on Nov. 29, 1981 but the yacht captain, Dennis Davern, admitted on the Today morning show that he lied about the events and…
The Morning Feed: Benetton Pulls Ad of Pope Kissing Egyptian Imam
Tweet Italian fashion house Benetton continues to generate worldwide publicity for its “Unhate” campaign of photoshopped images of world leaders from opposing communities kissing. Ads in their campaign supporting the Unhate Foundation include President Barack Obama kissing Venezuelan leader Hugo…
The Morning Feed: QR Markham confesses to rampant plagiarism in spy novel ‘Assassin of Secrets’
Tweet Writer QR Markham finally confesses after a week of deservedly harsh criticism over the rampant plagiarism in his recently released spy novel Assassin of Secrets. According to a story by Alison Flood in The Guardian, Markham, the pen pseudonym…
The Morning Feed: Julia Reyes Taubman Celebrates Motor City via ‘Detroit: 138 Square Miles’
Tweet Julia Reyes Taubman, who moved to Detroit in 1999 after marrying Robert S. Taubman, head of his family real estate business Taubman Centers; celebrates her flyover home via her photography book Detroit: 138 Square Miles. Taubman tells Karen Marta…
The Morning Feed: Brooklyn Museum Expects Controversy Over ‘HIDE/SEEK’
Tweet Many filmmakers including world masters Wim Wenders and Jean-Luc Godard credit film criticism as a developmental chapter towards their careers as directors. Veteran director and actor Paul Mazursky (Enemies: A Love Story, Moscow on the Hudson) turns their process…
Get Me Ron Perlman! Colin Firth in talks to Join Spike Lee’s ‘Old Boy’
Tweet The 2011 holiday movie season with all its awards-oriented releases is unfolding in rapid fashion but the “Get Me Ron Perlman” column, the only casting news column named after character actor par excellence Ron Perlman, remains focused on future…