Being mixed Jewish and Black, Maya Rudolph — like Lenny Kravitz, Lisa Bonet, Transracial IK and your’s truly — is true Transracial royalty. Rudolph — whom we’ve dug forever — is also starring the new movie Away We Go. And Transracial college bud Popsquire had the chance to sit down and talk awhile with the [...]
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DAILY TRAVEL GOODNESS: Community Service for Free Nights in the Maldives
This sounds a little too good to be true, but we kinda think it is. For folks with a spare — oh — month on their hands, the ultra-luxe Soneva Gili (above) and sister Soneva Fushi resorts in the Maldives are offering a crazy-cool package. Perfect for a burned-out banker or rail-thin celeb suffering from [...]
OPEN IN MALLORCA: The Monocle Pop-Up Shop
Mere weeks after debuting their Los Angeles outpost, Monocle Magazine is setting up shop on the sunny island of Mallorca with a special “pop-up” boutique all summer long. Located in Palma’s Santa Catalina quarter, the shop will house all sorts of Monocle-branded goodies as well as the latest — and greatest — issues. There will [...]
DISCOVERED IN COLOMBIA (1): Xoco Puro Chocolate
As loyal Transracial readers know, we were just in Colombia — and have a lot to report, beginning with Xoco Puro Chocolate, a haute chocolatier we found in Bogota’s hip Zona Rosa district. Like New York’s Jacques Torres, Xoco is betting big on the whole single-origin trend, using chocolate entirely sourced from Colombia itself and [...]
COVETED: YSL's New $300 T-Shirt
In these dark economic times, there is certainly no excuse for spending $300 on a t-shirt. But if we did have a few bills kicking around, we’d dedicate them to the new YSL shirt above. Created to celebrate the French firm’s third anniversary of its updated Japanese operation, a mere 70 of the shirts will [...]
Geisai Returns to Tokyo
Although we’ve got nothing against the man personally, Transracial is a bit jolly that the whole Takashi Murakami moment appears to be ending. His incessant self-promotion and endless co-branding endeavors were just a bit too much — even for media/marketing madmen such as ourselves. But we do support Murakami’s embrace of young Japanese artists and [...]
Diaspora Design
Here’s a groovy-graphic way to do good while looking good. Right now San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art is selling a series of specially-commissioned playing cards created by graphic designer Martin Venezky and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham. Titled Diaspora, the two sets of cards are part of SF MOMA’s Architecture + Design Forum and [...]
Cirque du Single
You’ve gotta applaud the folks down in Australia for creativity. Just when we thought we had heard of every possible form of dating, Sydney’s Aerialize Aerial Theatre has come up with this gold nugget: A new Single’s Circus Night — for Gays and Lesbians. Launching on March 12, the three-hour evening will see 16 men [...]
THIS JUST IN: Kim Vo Opens a Second Montage Salon
Shear Genius judge and Vietnamese-French hair whiz Kim Vo (above, in blonde) has just opened his second Montage Hotel salon — a day-old space at the Montage’s Laguna Beach property where he will clip, color and curl the locks of the local and global fabulocracy. The move comes just months after the transracial tress-master debuted [...]
Light Style
During a late-December visit to Tel Aviv, Transracial stumbled upon these nifty little lights at the studio of Rose&Bloom in the city’s newly-hip Noga district. The design team calls them HANG LIGHTS — dress-shaped lamps crafted from simple but strong parchment paper and festooned with groovy geometric patterns. The designs are connected to an old-fashioned [...]