Tweet Velvet Underground band members Lou Reed and John Cale confirmed to The New York Post today that the iconic rock band filed a lawsuit against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for illegally licensing its famous banana…
Author: Steve Ramos
Steve Ramos is a national, award-winning journalist whose advocacy of independent and art cinema has made him one of America's leading critical voices. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Boxoffice, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Movie Jungle.com, New York Magazine.com, Screen Daily and indieWire among others. In 2001, Ramos broke the story of a Cincinnati art-house theater snipping a sex scene from director Wayne Wang's "The Center of the World," which led the theater owner to ban him indefinitely from the theater. Ramos has programmed for film non-profits like 92Y Tribeca in order to bring independent film to larger audiences. He earned a BA in Philosophy from Xavier University and makes his home in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and son.
The Morning Feed: Guggenheim Museum Proposed for Helsinki
Tweet The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation proposed a new overseas museum today to be built on city property on Helsinki’s south harbor next to the Alvar Aalto designed headquarters of the Finnish company Stora Enso. According to The Telegraph, Guggenheim…
HiFI: Vinyl Record Sales Soar to 3.9M in 2011
Tweet My holiday itinerary reached its funkiest beat when my visiting teen niece Natalie asked to visit the local indie record store in search of vinyl records. Her excitement at discovering racks of alternative vinyl albums in the basement of…
The Morning Feed: James Franco Lands Amazon Book Deal
Tweet Renaissance man extraordinaire James Franco adds another creative accomplishment to his already hefty arts résumé. According to The New York Observer, Franco is signing with Amazon Publishing and its fiction editor Ed Park to write his first novel, Actors…
The Morning Feed: Countdown to Season 2 Premiere of IFC’s ‘Portlandia’
Tweet For all the loyal fans that missed the sold out Portlandia The Tour stops, the good news is that the Season Two premiere of Portlandia featuring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein finally lands 10 p.m. EST Friday on IFC.…
The Morning Feed: Demi Moore to Play Gloria Steinem in Linda Lovelace drama
Tweet After 40 years of on-screen appearances in dramas, documentaries and TV chat shows, Ms. magazine co-founder, political activist and writer Gloria Steinem steps aside for actress Demi Moore to play her in Lovelace, co-directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s…
The Morning Feed: Meryl Streep Graces ‘Vogue’ cover at 62
Tweet Veteran actress Meryl Streep continues to make the awards season rounds in promotion of her mirror image performance of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. The flashiest “get” of her publicity campaign is landing the…
The Morning Feed: Beastie Boys, Guns N’ Roses Join 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees
Tweet Hip Hop legends the Beastie Boys join an eclectic group of rock and roll legends making up today’s announcement of the 2012 class of inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Joining the Beastie Boys in the…
The Morning Feed: 2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Premieres
Tweet The full 110-film slate of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival is complete thanks to yesterday’s announcement of the dramatic and documentary premieres by John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival. The festival’s premieres sections often generate the most…
This Week In Theaters: Fox Searchlight testing the NC-17 waters with ‘Shame’
Tweet Michael Fassbender’s powerful performance as a New Yorker struggling with sex addiction and London-born artist Steve McQueen’s precise directing are the highlights of Shame, arguably one of the year’s best movies. Still, the majority of the publicity on the…