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Most New Yorkers can agree that losing a MetroCard is one of the spookiest possibilities this Halloween -or ruining one's clothing through unidentifiable subway liquids. Either way, New York is never short of stories, grand fables where the impossible somehow becomes...possible, and this year's Halloween is no exception.
The sweltering heat of summer is finally giving way to cool, crisp air and a change in the leaves. There's a sweet melancholy to fall in Paris, something that can only be rendered in person as the city enraptures you by its fiery orange and maroon hues.
It's a Monday night at Bowery Poetry Club and the evening lineup has consisted of break-up poems. The crowd is young and beautiful, college students and tourists who stumbled upon the space out of curiosity, others avid performers and active members of the community. Two women take the stage.
What is the job of a pop song? Mainstream music's unabashed pop tropes usually explore, in brief, stories of fleeting youth and love, the temptations of money and fame, and the all-encompassing sugariness of the American dream. When Nicki Minaj dropped "Anaconda," a bombastic reclamation of female sexuality in the viral age of twerking, media called it too brash.
It's finally starting to warm up and I'm on the hunt for a summer scent. A good scent tells a story-at least that's what most niche fragrance websites will have you believe. This week, we are testing out mainstream fragrances at department/beauty stores and comparing them to niche brands that are twice the price.
How does a film, ultimately about death, explore destruction, mutation, and change as necessary factors for life itself? Naturally, a film about ego death (or dissociation?) will unassumingly render its story and characters slightly portentous-even the best of sci-fi films have a smug relationship with anything perceived as sublime.
MGMT's fanbase often credits 2007's Oracular Spectacular as the band's magnum opus, the height of their pop-psych excellence, which is a backhanded compliment or an ironic summation of their pop-infused psychedelia, depending on how you view MGMT's discography. Either way, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser are jokesters who know better.
It was recently announced that Issa Rae (the creator of Awkward Black Girl and Insecure) will be partnering with ex- Daily Show writer, Travon Free, to produce Him or Her for HBO, a show about a Black, bisexual man navigating modern dating.
Whether he's actually sedated by Pineapple Express or just really happy all the time, James Franco appears to be eternally stoned. Browsing through Franco's filmography on IMBD, a true fan could detail when Franco's pothead aesthetic went from novice smoker to the guy who does bong rips and dabs for breakfast.
When I first started to appreciate film, I was a freshman in college who ventured into film studies after buying the Criterion Collection release of Jean Luc Godard's Breathless (1960) in an empty Barnes and Noble.