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…
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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…
The Morning Feed: Sonic Youth calling it quits, for a while
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…
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…