nostalgia
A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
John Cook · 08/12/09 04:00PMNew York's New Ghost Town
Richard Lawson · 04/13/09 02:45PMThe Death of the Beatrice Inn
Richard Lawson · 04/07/09 12:58PMWho's In the Monkey Bar Mural?
Richard Lawson · 03/30/09 04:10PMBoston High School Is Not, In Fact, Overrun with Vampires
Richard Lawson · 03/26/09 12:30PMMaer Roshan, the Early Days
Richard Lawson · 03/17/09 01:59PMWatchmen's New York
Richard Lawson · 03/05/09 05:19PMLaurel Touby: The College Years
Richard Lawson · 03/04/09 02:25PMThe Stork Club's Secret Hand Signals
Richard Lawson · 03/02/09 03:53PMNeverEnding Story Really Never Gonna End
Richard Lawson · 02/26/09 12:46PMSeinfeld Returns To NBC
Ryan Tate · 02/26/09 12:02AMAnna Wintour, Cause Célèbre
Ryan Tate · 01/07/09 11:41PMVillage Voice Fires 50-Year Writer, Last Black Writer
Ryan Tate · 12/30/08 09:13PMThe Nude Photos That Nearly Destroyed New York
Ryan Tate · 12/09/08 09:34PM Google somehow contrived to include full digital images of old New York magazines in its new magazine search service on Google Books. Sadly, the archive is missing key issues, containing such classics as "Radical Chic: That Party At Lenny's" and "Tribal Rights of the New Saturday Night." But both of those are available, albeit ripped from their original context, on nymag.com, and Google has one classic that isn't: Barbara Goldsmith's "La Dolce Viva," which revealed the seedy side of Andy Warhol's entourage through Viva, a shriveled one-name actress. "I had never seen anything like it," Tom Wolfe wrote of accompanying nude photos from Diane Arbus. But the article's appearance in the fourth debut standalone New York nearly ended Clay Felker's magazine.
Your Sick Boss Fantasies Acted Out On Stylista
Ryan Tate · 10/22/08 04:37AMIn its review of Elle-focused reality show Stylista, the Times finds plenty to like, surprisingly. It seems hippie editor Anne Slowey does a surprisingly convincing impersonation of Meryl Streep imitating Miranda Priestly standing in for mean old Anna Wintour of Vogue. (So much for those embarrassing preview clips from a few months ago.) The catfighting is inspired and "novel." And yet that's not what will hook you on the show. You'll watch because you are aching to pretend, for an hour each Wednesday, that the brutal hierarchy of yesteryear lent work an elegant simplicity. Writes the Times' Gina Bellafante:
One More Thing: Sex and Violence in Movies and TV
ian spiegelman · 10/19/08 06:13PMWhy else would we even go to the movies or turn on the television? Okay, there are a few other reasons, but mostly it's the sex and violence. So. What are you favorite scenes of people getting it on or having it out? Or both at once? Obviously, keep it tasteful and SFW. I'll get us going after the jump.
One More Thing: Rebels in Movies and TV
ian spiegelman · 10/18/08 06:53PMThis is certainly a scary time in America, what with the racist McCain/Palin fans and a liberal response that is still cringing and frightened to offend no matter what crazy shit the Wingers spew. But America has had scary times before—times when racists and rednecks and bullies and other pieces of shit went all out to stop the spread of progress and new ideas and common decency. And we have always stuck it to the man, at least in movies and TV. My opener after the jump.
One More Thing: Remembering the Suburbs
ian spiegelman · 10/12/08 06:35PMAh, the Burbs. So many good times. Sadly, with the collapse of the economy, they'll probably disappear along with the middle class. The rich will live in inaccessible luxury high rises like in Land of the Dead, or on well-guarded manses like in a Philip K. Dick novel. The rest of us will hunker down in urban hell-zones, disaster-prone trailer parks, and underground bunkers. Actually, no, that won't happen. But, still, the suburbs figure so prominently in so many fine movies and TV shows that they deserve a dedicate clip-fest. I'll get us rolling after the jump.
One More Thing: The Great Regression
ian spiegelman · 10/11/08 06:47PMWhat do you do when the world's economy is falling apart and God only knows when things will get better? Duh! You get together with your friends, pretend that you're six, and start building some sofa-and-blanket forts stat! Dig deep into your memories for the days when food and shelter was someone else's problem, and find some clips that hearken back to those warm and cozy—and lost—times. They don't have to be cartoons, but they do have to be from childhood. That's all. I'll start with my biggest childhood hero.