by | Sep 19, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Mirth, Weirdness
from The Washington Post For more than 50 years, Univision’s ‘Sábado Gigante’ was truly a giant By Carlos Harrison DORAL, FLA. — An electric excitement surges through the crowd gathered in the Univision studios in this city just west of Miami. As Mario “Don Francisco”...
by | Sep 18, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Mirth
from artnet Warhol’s Famous Jews Stolen from L.A. Movie Studio and Replaced with Fakes by Brian Boucher Andy Warhol, Sigmund Freud, from from “Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century,” 1980. Photo via TMZ. Nine of Andy Warhol’s prints of...
by | Sep 16, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from CNN The Earth has 3 trillion trees, study finds By Brandon Griggs (CNN) – The good news: A new study finds that there are 3.04 trillion trees on Earth, 7½ times more than previous estimates. That’s more than 3,000,000,000,000. A whopping 12 zeros....
by | Sep 12, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from The Economist Netflix’s first theatrical release deserves to be watched at the cinema by N.B. | VENICE CARY FUKUNAGA’s “Beasts of No Nation” is the most controversial film in competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival, but not because of its subject...
by | Sep 10, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Mirth
from artnet news ‘Daily Mail’ Claims They Have Revealed Banksy—He’s a Parking Attendant. Really? Brian Boucher Is this parking attendant at Dismaland, right, actually the artist Banksy, thought to be shown in the picture at left? Photos via Daily...
by | Sep 9, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times An Unprecedented Success for Electronic Dance Music and Its D.J.s By STEPHEN HEYMAN Laurent Cilluffo Late last month, Forbes published its list of the world’s top-earning D.J.s. Calvin Harris, 31, who less than a decade ago was stocking...