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It was then that I found myself reclined on an oversized ball—
both the shape and color of a clown’s nose—while Eric Dane, the actor and
purported “hottie” of the TV show Grey’s Anatomy, uttered encouraging words as I
attempted to use a contraption that looked like it should be used only for drawing
and quartering, not developing super-rad pecs.
From the Batmobile to the General Lee, click through for a look at the baddest, freewheelin’-est hot rods in film history, rated on a pimped-out scale of 1-10.
The ceiling fan chops at the yolky light, barely illuminating the singer’s face. He closes
his eyes and opens his mouth wide to belt a rough and soulful series of “la la la la’s” into the microphone.
He faces the back of a burnt-orange, vintage organ, its top cluttered with empty cigarette
packs, beer bottles, and a pair of aviator sunglasses, as the guitarist swings his own instrument to the side
and steps in front of the keyboard, massaging a swell of sixties surf sounds from the organ’s groaning belly.
From two corners of the room comes…
For Lupe Hernandez, it all started with a plane ticket. As the youngest
child living with six brothers, she found herself a servant in her own household in
Mexico City, having taken the place of her mother, who died when Hernandez was
only 13. Her father, a street sweeper and an alcoholic…
An interview with Jenna Jameson about her “mainstream” film debut, for Metromix.com
Somewhere in the twentieth century, the foot-stompin’, dobro pluckin’ songs of the sons
and daughters of slavery were appropriated and transformed—Led Zeppelin borrowed from Lead Belly,
Stevie Ray Vaughan from Buddy Guy—and at the turn of the millenium, blues became the soundtrack to
yuppie ennui: John Mayer waxed disingenuous and Starbucked the blues, Kenny Wayne Shepherd shredded
on Letterman, and the entire franchise of The House of Blues sprouted up like suburban mushrooms…
Topher Grace is all grown up.
Turning the Screws of Los Angeles’ Experimental Noise Scene
Anton Corbijn discusses his debut film, Control about the life of Ian Curtis
Interviews with Vince Vaughn and the comics of Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show
Interviews with extreme skiers Andrew McLean and Ingrid Backstrom, stars of documentary Steep
Interview with director/artist Julian Schnabel, screenwriter Ron Harwood and the cast of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Vince Vaughn and Pal Giamatti discuss their film, “Fred Claus”
Battles are not so much a band as they are an assembly line of interlocking guitar and keyboard rhythms, piston pumping drums and transmogrified vocals building math-rock songs one note at a time…(more)
The landscape is arid, harsh, and unforgiving. The earth is cracked
and laid waste, a foreboding storm lurks behind the craggy mountains…(More)
During the incipient stages of global exploration in the 1800’s, European explorers viewed sub-Saharan as a conundrum, a “dark continent” that cartographers left as darkened, un-delineated areas on maps. Much contemporary African pop music carries the legacy of the “dark continent” today, leaving many international audiences without a frame of reference for Africa’s effervescent rhythms…(more)
The 34th annual Alaskan Iditarod took place over two weeks, from March 3 to 15, trekking 1,150 miles in an epic and time-honored race across one of the most stark and beautiful landscapes on earth.
On the same day that the Alaska race began, another journalist strapped on a cowboy hat, affixed a bandanna, and carefully shaved a badass handlebar mustache, preparing for a grueling three-mile race along the stark terrain of West Los Angeles.
“As early as 1963, civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland had compared themselves to blacks in Alabama and Little Rock, and identified themselves as the ‘Negroes’ of Northern Ireland…”
Style Wars: Dissecting the Candidates’ Graphics Shepard Fairey Presidential Logo Analysis from DTewksbury on Vimeo. Has election coverage burnt you out? We at News and Views decided to examine the candidates in a different way: by their looks. No, we’re not waxing poetic on any yellow pantsuits or baby-blue ties. Instead, we’re looking at each [...]
In a small community, a young man pushes a wheelchair in which rests the upright, silicon body of a sex doll named Bianca.