In this day, age and free market, we cannot quite believe what is happening to the British magazine Filament. The quarterly launched in June with a debut issue and is aiming for a female demographic that appreciates good writing as well as good looking guys. Filament is a bit like Playgirl-lite — in that it [...]
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IT'S ON: Israeli Gays Hack on the Haters on Facebook
As Tel Aviv police squads continue to seach for the gunman behind last Saturday’s horrific attack on a local Gay/Lesbian community center, it appears as if Israeli Gays are beginning to fightback on Facebook. Earlier today a Facebook user hacked into an anti-Gay group page and was able to transform it from a homo-phobic social [...]
ONE WEEK ONLY: HBO'S By The People
A few weeks back we found ourselves lucky enough to be sitting in an air-conditioned screening room on Sixth Avenue with Gayle King and the Oprah crew for an early viewing of BY THE PEOPLE — The Election of Barack Obama. Produced by HBO, By The People is essentially THE definitive behind-the-scenes look at the Obama presidential [...]
TREND ALERT: Hip-Hop Authors
Last month we reported that rapper Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest was set to make his literary debut with a new memoir from Random House. Now it seems as if Q is hardly the only NYC hip-hopper entering the publishing arena, since this fall, The RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan will release his latest literary [...]
OPEN IN VANCOUVER: World's First Travel + Leisure Store
Perhaps taking a cue from the folks over at Monocle, Travel and Leisure magazine has opened its very first branded, bricks-and-mortar store — in Vancouver International Airport (of all places). Recently debuted — in partnership with the folks behind Hudson News — the store sells all kinds of T+L-branded goodes (books, magazines, etc) along with [...]
THIS JUST IN: Has the Vibe Run out at VIBE?
Word on the street is that Vibe magazine is shutting its doors — TODAY! The mag’s PR team says no way — but even Mariah’s retoucher could not fix the slimness of Vibe’s most recent issues. The DL closing talk comes less than two months after Vibe’s reported brush with bankruptcy — and is yet [...]
JUST IN TIME FOR HIS REALITY SHOW: Charles Saatchi's Art Confessions
Just in time for his new art-focused reality TV show, art and advertising titan Charles Saatchi is debuting the art-confessional My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic: Everything You Need to Know About Art, Ads, Life, God and Other Mysteries and Weren’t Afraid to Ask. Debuting in September and published by art [...]
Carly Simon, Duncan Sheik, Hall & Oates and Blue Man Group Lend Their Voices to "Listen"
We were very lucky to attend a performance at NYC’s Cherry Lane Theatre today by Our Time — an amazing non-profit group that offers an artistic home for young people who stutter. The event today included a pair of plays conceived, written and produced by Our Town’s teen and pre-teen members. And it was both [...]
WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT: Media Freedom in Venezuela
While all kinds of drama is going on in Iran, let’s not forget about the ongoing political entanglements in our own hemisphere — especially in Venezuela. If you did not know, Venezuela only has ONE remaining vocally anti-government television network — the 24-hour news channel Globovision. The channel has come under attack by Chavez following [...]
WE'RE READING: Blended Nation
Last night saw the launch party at the oh-so fancy National Arts Club for the new book Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America. Conceived and brought to life by husband-and-wife duo Mike Tauber and Pamela Singh, the book is a photographic journey through the lives of multi-racial Americans and brings to light their [...]