Dudes. Grab a CityPaper ASAP. It contains a 20% off coupon good at the Marimekko store in Silver Spring. Image via Homebug. (If you’re looking for something fascinating to mull over, read Nick Currie’s excellent post in The Moment about Muji, a Japanese company that manufactures its products with the “the confident awareness that modesty [...]
Over the next few weekends the National Gallery of Art will present a film program featuring cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, the “Master of Light and Shade” of Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema (the 1940s and 50s). Included are “La Perla”(an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel “The Pearl”), “Enamorada,” starring the luminous Maria Felix, and “Nazarin,” directed [...]
(from “Road to the Away Game” from Goethe-Institut website. Thanks Emily!) Third Annual Asian-European Short Film Showcase, Monday, 02 June – Friday, 13 June 2008:Each night, a different pair of countries from Europe and Asia are featured, along with a speaker to “highlight and compare issues facing these cultures today.” And it’s free! This is [...]
Guys. Yves Saint Laurent died. Boo. (Image from Brightstarlights.)