A Flood of Gonzo Weirdness

from The Village Voice Sarah Flood in Salem Mass: All Kinds of Gonzo Weirdness By Alexis Soloski Adriano Shaplin’s gonzo epic Sarah Flood in Salem Mass blends Our Town and The Crucible with verve, slang, and hallucinogenic beaver stew. (Yes, the Wooster Group...

Hirst Births Giant Bronze Baby In Qatar

from The NY Times Damien Hirst’s Anatomical Sculptures Have Their Debut By CAROL VOGEL DOHA, Qatar — For weeks, 14 giant balloons had been mysteriously parked in front of the Sidra Medical and Research Center, a hulking steel, glass and white ceramic building devoted...

Hecklers Suck Balls

from SPIN Fiona Apple Heckled Over Health, Walks Off Again Just over a month ago, Fiona Apple made headlines following an incident at a Fashion Week event in Tokyo in which she reportedly walked off stage when the crowd refused to, in her alleged words, “shut...

It Ain’t A da Vinci

from The Telegraph Leonardo da Vinci painting lost for centuries found in Swiss bank vault By Nick Squires, Rome It was lost for so long that it had assumed mythical status for art historians. Some doubted whether it even existed. But a 500-year-old mystery was...