Ghostbusters 3 To Release in 2012

Hollywood just loves to cash in on remakes (i.e. Goonies), sequels, prequels and adaptations in lieu of taking risks with brand new material, and the saga continues with Ghostbusters 3 and Rise of the Apes .

Chicago Museum to Hire Someone to Live There for 30 Days

It might be every nerdy kid’s dream to live in a museum, but now this is actually a job—and one that comes with some really great perks. Chicago’s famous Museum of Science and Industry is “looking for someone to take on a once-in-a-lifetime assignment: spend a Month at the Museum, to live and breathe science 24/7 for 30 days.”

Flying Pasties, Protect Yourself

Perfect for Mormons, Puritans, and prudes alike, or those who only want their life-partners ogling their naughty parts, Flying Pasties will “give you back your right to privacy while respecting security.”

Since the world is such a scary place and you never know when an evil-doer is sneaking his way through the gates, full-body scanners in airports will make sure no one’s hiding bombs or weapons in their cleavage or…elsewhere.

David Byrne Sues For 1 Million Dollars

David Byrne is just one of many musicians whose music has been used without permission. Being the self-proclaimed “old-fashioned” artist that he is, Byrne has never licensed his music and believes that his 1 million dollar lawsuit against Florida governor Charlie Crist is about “more than simply using my music without permission and without paying, [...]

The Continuing Abortion Battle: Missouri And Oklahoma's New Laws

Abortion is one hell of a sticky subject and has been for quite some time. But while I’d like to think the world is getting progressively more progressive, even if at a sloth-like pace, pro-lifers and Christians still adamantly fight for the rights of fetuses, and states like Missouri and Oklahoma have gotten away with [...]

Goonies Remake, After 25 Years

Twenty-five years after its release, The Goonies, which warmed the boyish hearts of many an ’80s kid, will be remade for a new generation. Warner Brothers struck a deal with Producer Neal H. Moritz (of The Fast and the Furious franchise) and original Director Richard Donner to bring The Goonies back to life.

Pearl Jam + Broken Social Scene: New Political Videos

Music and politics have always held hands in surprising and creative ways. There’s something about listening to a politics-fueled song or watching an intense, non-narrative but topic-based music video that often speaks decibels above reading a news story, at least for me. For example: a stream of carefully edited images set to the tension-building tune [...]

Want To Be Whiter? There's A Facebook App For That!

In India and many other dark-skinned countries, paler skin is considered beautiful, especially for women. But when Indian cosmetics giant Emani launched the first skin-whitening cream for men called “Fair and Handsome” 27 years after their first cream for women, Indian men were given the chance to alter their natural pigment as well. Now in [...]

Liz Phair Raps And Other Disasters

Liz Phair, riot grrl-ish icon, ruled the ’90s when her album Exit in Guyville was praised by angsty, empowered young women and critics alike. But the golden girl has come under scrutiny many many times since then, namely by being called a sell-out when she released some awful pop tunes in 2003, after pressure from [...]

UK Store "Hangs" Alexander McQueen

In a bold and tasteless move, Selfridges hung an Alexander McQueen dress from the gallows in the latest window display of their popular Manchester store. As a chain of high end department stores in the UK, Selfridges’ window-display team ought to know or thing or two about designer fashion. And naturally they should remember when [...]

School of Seven Bells "Disconnect" on their Latest Offering

Benjamin Curtis and I select a shady spot on a sweaty day in McCarren Park, surrounded by children, skaters, and uniformed baseball players. He wears a button-down shirt that reveals his new, and only, tattoo: the sleek cover design and logo of School of Seven Bells’ new album, Disconnect from Desire, which comes out today. [...]

Obama Rising To The AIDS Challenge

The majority of Americans are losing faith in Obama (as of today, nearly 60 percent!), which is likely based on the nose-diving economy, job and housing crises, and of course disastrous BP oil spill. But later this afternoon, Obama will discuss his new National HIV/AIDS Strategy, which may offer some sense of renewed faith, or [...]

Alert: Phosphorescent Van Stolen

Just after Phosphorescent played an amazing show at Pier 54 in NYC last night, their rental van–and all of their equipment–was stolen in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. That show was the first of their scheduled six-week US tour and now the band is left equipment-less, with losses that total around $40,000 (yikes!). They’re looking for any and [...]

Celebrity Twitter Blunders

Twitter has shown itself to be an extremely revealing and sometimes useful medium over the last year, though it doesn’t always reveal its “celebrity” users in the best light. Namely, tweets with grammatical errors make you look pretty stupid. I now find myself feeling pretty stupid for scouring the internet in search of the ill-conceived [...]

The Nordic Invasion

Far, very far, outside the realms of New York, Hollywood, and London lie the lands of Viking legend, awesome names, and wintry beauty. These Nordic countries–Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden–have made their mark on art, film, literature and music for many years, but, on this side of the globe, interest in their artistic output [...]

Daniel Johnston; Story of an Artist

On July 20 a brand new, limited edition boxset called The Story of an Artist offers six discs of Daniel Johnston’s early recordings from 1980 to 1983, when he was nineteen through twenty-two. Johnston was, and still is, an anomaly in the music world. While The Devil and Daniel Johnston revealed his small town upbringing, [...]

Nick Cave's "Grinderman 2" On Its Way

Nick Cave’s demonic music and imagination have spawned a variety of awesome projects, from his work with The Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds, to his screenplay for The Proposition and recent novel, The Death of Bunny Munro (an absolute must-read!). In 2006, he formed Grinderman, and the band debuted their self-titled album a year [...]

Brooklyn Pool Parties Announce Lineup

The Pool Parties are back for another hot wet Brooklyn summer. Not to be confused with other free NYC concerts happening this summer, or the ticketed shows at the Williamsburg Waterfront, like the Faith No More show tonight. The Jelly Pool Parties started in 2006, in the then-abandoned McCarren Park Pool. The Parties moved to [...]

Cover Songs That Kick The Originals To The Curb

Is there such thing as a cover song that’s better than the original? For all the crap out there—the Britney Spears cover of “I Love Rock n Roll” or Hillary Duff’s rendition of “My Generation”—there are a few rare gems out there that have managed to top the original, reinventing an old song or bringing [...]

Madonna + Daughter Start Material Girl Line

The world’s first Material Girl produced another one in 1996, and now the mother-daughter team of last-name-not-necessary Madonna and Lourdes are launching a fashion line together. The line is ’80s themed and geared to teenagers, even though Lourdes and every other teen today were born after the decade ended. Though the actual clothes are still-to-come, [...]