Arts

This past Friday afternoon I found myself hanging with local artist Leta Gray at The Woodlands cemetery in West Philthy.  Although perhaps best known as a tattoo artist and musician, this June (1st-30th) PhilaMOCA will be hosting SYSTEMIC: A Retrospect of Americana Artwork by Leta Gray.  This Thursday, June...

So, if you’re anything like me (broke and highly solitary), I’m guessing you haven’t even considered December holiday gifts thus far… And, if you’re really like me, you likely still appreciate a good, hard copy of your audiovisual materials (Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure most of these come in...

Although I’m hoping most of my readers are pretty adamantly anti-Black Friday, it is worth noting that the best rock doc of the year hits shelves today: Gorman Bechard’s Who is Lydia Loveless?  Earlier this week I recommended that BFF check it out, to which she replied, “Dude, there’s...

So I realize it’s fun (and easy) to make fun of Motley Crue, but I think they just might be the greatest “hard rock,” band of all-time (Now whether that’s something to be proud or ashamed of is an entirely different argument.)  I mean, sure they’re basically bros who’ve...

Well, it’s official, Ol’ Blue Eyes, born December 12th, 1915 right over in Hoboken, would have been 100 today… So chances are at some point today you’ll pull “Witchcraft” or “My Way” up on your iPod for a few celebratory moments of remembrance, but there’s also a good chance...

Although I’m well aware that long-form musical releases are a bit out of vogue at the moment, in lieu of digital-only Eps and singles, and feature-length cinema is far less appealing to this generation than webisodes and YouTube clips, I maintain that both remain far superior to their contemporary...

Aside from his brief cameo alongside Katy Perry at America’s Favorite Spectacle (in which both artists were undeniably outshined by a guy in a rubber animal suit) and a wardrobe malfunction this summer that stole headlines from even musical blogs for and by the hip, it has been quite...

Although in the second half of my 30-year life my tastes have leaned heavily toward the likes of post-punk and indie pop, when it comes to concert movies and double live albums, the classic arena rockers whose sounds and images filled my childhood bedroom really do seem to have...

I’m quite embarrassed to admit that I hadn’t seen La Grande Bouffe until a few weeks ago… Which is very surprising, if you know anything about me, my tastes, or my politics.  A brand new restoration of Marco Ferreri’s 1973 highly-controversial, heady trash masterpiece (or, trashterpiece); which tackles the...