Yohji Yamamoto and Chloe pics by Don Ashby and Olivier Claisse Did you love the Yohji Yamamoto boots on the runway for this fall? Do you miss your Doc Martens? Palace5ive is stocking Creative Recreation boots that skirt the same trend while keeping it street. Loving this company! pics by Palace5ive
Friday at the Hirshorn was almost complete madness…the people of Good Magazine really went all out, and I think they have some more anniversary parties planned for Chicago and other cities, so keep an eye out! My friend Beth and I living it up I have a slight idea of what it cost to rent [...]
film stills from the internet I watched Apocalypto this weekend and yes, it was everything it was said to be. Ultra-violent, brutal, gorey, all of it. But god damn the costumes! They were breathtaking! The details in the jewelry, tattoos, hair and make-up of the film are amazing, and worth sitting through the violence for. [...]
Summer Palace still from AFI site Monday: Michael Otterman – American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond book signing, 7pm at Olssons; Black Cat 10th Anniversary Party (will Dave Grohl be there??!?!?!) Tuesday: Summer Palace at AFI, playing for one week only. Banned in China! Wednesday: Mothertongue, women’s spoken work, at [...]
Taqueria D.F. Located on 14th St at Oak St. NW. I have been longing to go to Mexico City for a while now but haven’t had the means to go, so I did the next best thing: I paid visit the D.C. taqueria that bears its name. Taqueria D.F. (Distrito Federal) offers up tasty authentic [...]
Adams Morgan pic from www.adamsmorgandayfestival.com Tonight: Sonic Circuits Festival kicks off; The Devil Came on Horseback screenings begin at the Avalon; Rashid Ali Tomorrow: DJ Dave Nada at Wonderland; Georgie James at 9:30; Sunday: Adams Morgan Day All weekend long: Middle Eastern Bazaar at Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church
Thurston Moore’s new book is a collection of visuals and philosophy surrounding communal living, but specifically the concept of a punk house. Now, as with many musical genres, punk offers a mythical fairyland full of youthful rebellion, dreamy mohawks and teenage angst–so of course it is very appealing to think about it as liberatory and [...]
I think about food all the time because, well, I love food. And while I used to think watermelon was a watery blah fruit, since purchasing local melons I’ve found it to be crisp, syrupy and deeply sweet. pic by Scott Bauer The Post just published a delightful article on melons, (I kinda hate canteloupe [...]
film still from film I just watched Black Mama, White Mama this weekend (Pam Grier being one of my fave people of all time) and for a B-(maybe C-?) rate film, the costumes were so on-point! Sure, the women in chains spent 98% of the movie in a v-neck yellow t-shirt dress, sometimes with an [...]
film still from Death of a Cyclist from AFI’s site Tuesday/Tonight: Yellow Fever at Saint-Ex Wednesday: Death of a Cyclist at AFI; DJ Dave Nada does Vegetate and later Trap at Napoleon Thursday: UHHH!!! MC HAMMER at Woodrow Wilson Plaza!!!!; Chris Burns does Discotheque at Napoleon (Geez, Napoleon should be sending money my way for [...]