Tuesday's Tossed Salad: Anthony Bourdain...Paul Theroux...Cameron Diaz...Madonna
"RICE IS an explanation for everything!" That's adventurer/chef Anthony Bourdain talking to Smithsonian magazine for July. Bourdain tells writer Ron Rosenbaum that "Any rice culture is beautiful. It's...
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The Best Books About Summer Romance
What makes a great summer romance story? Stories that specifically take place during summer? Novels you reread every summer? (I am a confirmed re-reader. I love to catch the things I didn't get before,...
View ArticleBoyhood
Watching Richard Linklater's Boyhood one can't help imagining what Girlhood would have been like. Is such a follow up project in the works? At the end of the movie a young woman who Mason (Ellar...
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The MovieFilm Podcast: All In on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes!
This week on the MovieFilm Podcast we have not one, but TWO interviews with the filmmakers of the number one movie in the country, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (read my review here!). First up,...
View ArticleTrapped in the Booth: PT 3
Disclaimer: This is a semi-fictionalized version of my all-too-real experiences working as a DJ in New York City. Most of the names of venues, organizations or people mentioned herein have been changed...
View ArticleYou've Got Time
Time. You've got time. In the Netflix show Orange Is The New Black time is pretty much the only thing that is on the characters' side, because as Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) learned in season one,...
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Meet the 8 Artists You'd Never Guess Were in the Rock Hall (#1: Alabama Shakes)
In their earliest days as a group, the members of Alabama Shakes honed their chops playing classics by James Brown and Otis Redding, but also by Led Zeppelin and AC/DC. "We had to find music we could...
View ArticleA-Sides with Jon Chattman: Love Kitten's Chloe Chaidez "Like a Stranger"
There are so many teen stars these days in essentially every genre it seems like a gimmick to mention it in any story about any of them. If I'd write a piece on Lorde, I'd naturally talk about how...
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Meet the 8 Artists You'd Never Guess Were in the Rock Hall (#2: The Black Keys)
Since the first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in 1986 -- when the likes of Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley were inducted -- more than 300 people have been honored with a...
View ArticleThe Best of Summer 2014: 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'
One of the best and most beloved science fiction movies of all time is 1968's Planet of the Apes. But while the original, Oscar-nominated flick is outstanding, its follow-ups have been less than...
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How Hip Hop Is 'Screwing' the Urban Black Community
One afternoon at the beginning of my freshman year at Northwestern, I walked into my teammate Roger's room while he was playing music. I had heard all styles of rap from hard-core gangster to socially...
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'I Like Being a Freak': Keith Levy on Being Sherry Vine (VIDEO)
I'm From Driftwood is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit archive for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer stories. New stories are posted on the site every Wednesday. What drives a person to perform in...
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The Offspring's SMASH 20th Year Anniversary Show
This year The Offspring celebrate 30 years as a band, as well as the 20th year anniversary of their hit album Smash, which, singlehandedly launched them into the craze of MTV and radio play in the...
View ArticleBruce Springsteen at Ellis Island
Those who love "The Boss" or are intrigued by family history will appreciate this charming video of Bruce Springsteen accepting the Ellis Island Family Heritage Award with his mother and her two...
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Amerigo Gazaway: For Love of Hip Hop
Music has a funny way of imprinting a time period in the listener's head. And maybe that's why we like it. As a work of both art and performance, listening to music becomes more than a passive...
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The Curious Mechanics of EDM and How It Became Distinct From Electronic Dance...
Over the next two weekends, the People of Tomorrow will witness floating stages, pyrotechnic phenomena, fountains, flamethrowers and flowers dropped by helicopters. They will camp in DreamVille, push...
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An Interview With Directors of Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians
FIRST OF TWO INTERVIEWS See also: Interview with the Last Peyote Guardians: Marakame José Luis "Katira" Ramírez and son When Argentine filmmaker Hernán Vílchez made his way up into the remote Wixarika...
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Dance for Me: Coming of Age on the Dance Floor and Beyond
Teen Latin dancers Egor Kondratkenko and Mie Lincke Funch wait to face the music--and the judges We see them on Dancing With The Stars, So You Think You Can Dance. In the Step Up and "wanna be" Step...
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Time Warping With Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Director Matt Reeves!
I went through a bit of a personal time warp when I met with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves shortly after the global premiere of the Fox release. When I sat down with the...
View ArticlePsy's "Hangover:" Challenging Asian American and African American Relations
Psy's "Gangnam Style" took the world by storm two years ago. His song broke the Guinness World Record to become the first video to reach a billion views. Soon his song and dance style became a global...
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