Track and Field
May 3, 2012
Take activewear’s power vocabulary—tech fabrics, mesh, bold colors, sporty silhouettes—and run with it.
The Black Keys
March 26, 2012
Years before anyone was listening, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney were making raw, bluesy, ripped-to-shreds rock music in a basement in Akron, Ohio. How indie rock’s most down-and-dirty duo cleaned up and went pop
Best Original Screenplay: Kristen Wiig
February 9, 2012
Before the Oscar nominees were announced, there was some optimistic speculation Bridesmaids would be nominated for Best Picture. Unfortunately this did not happen. But before you write an angry letter of protestation to the Academy, Bridesmaids‘ writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo are smong the contenders for the Best Original Screenplay.
Best Picture: The Artist
February 9, 2012
The 2012 Oscars are fast upon us! Among the Best Picture (and Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress) hopefuls is The Artist.
The Artist
November 28, 2011
From an actor-director-spousal ménage comes one of the year’s most quietly compelling new films.
The Row
September 24, 2011
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen didn’t choose the careers that made them famous. But as fashion designers, they’ve had their eyes on every detail
Eleanor Friedberger
August 16, 2011
What took Eleanor Friedberger so long to venture out on her own? Recalling her last decade of unend- ing touring and recording as the sister half of the cultish avant-rock sibling duo The Fiery Furnaces, she admits, “I floated through a lot of it.”
Theophilus London
August 16, 2011
The first time Theophilus London performed in Brooklyn, as a lanky, self-conscious 14-year-old at the 2002 Flatbush Fair, he was wearing a pink shirt, white pants, and a white hat—or, “the worst outfit of all time!” as he refers to it.
Das Racist
August 16, 2011
The Bushwick-based hip-hop trio Das Racist blends nimble rhyme skills with racially charged humor: Between the group’s Afro-Cuban-Italian MC Kool A.D. (non-rap name: Victor Vazquez) and two Indian-American members, co-front man Heems (a.k.a. Himanshu Suri) and hype man Dap (born Ashok Kondabolu), they find something to offend everyone.
Shady Days
May 27, 2011
There’s nothing like seeing life through oversized lenses—especially from urban rooftops on balmy summer afternoons.
Kristen Wiig
April 19, 2011
The many beguiling faces (and dark deadhead past) of Saturday Night Live’s doyenne of shape- shifting fabulousness
Okkervil River
April 19, 2011
The high-modernist milieu of singer-songwriter Will Sheff, where disease reigns and death lurks around every corner
Golden Handcuffs
April 19, 2011
Let the chicest instrument of restraint—a diamond watch—dominate your state of undress
Crystal Stilts
March 21, 2011
The Brooklyn rock act on the ecstasy of their expansive new album, and the joylessness of lazy joy division comparisons
Punch Brothers
February 23, 2011
Charting the whirlwind rise of the Brooklyn five-piece, purveyors of experimental, indie-rock, bluegrass banjo havoc.
Todd Haynes
February 22, 2011
The director, bard of high-concept biography and explorer of suburban ennui, on his new HBO miniseries, Mildred Pierce, and why he just wasn’t made for these times.
Elle Fanning
November 19, 2010
The inimitable Elle Fanning—actress, seventh-grader, ballerina, thrift-store maven, baby sister of Dakota, and possessor of her own bathroom (almost, finally!)—is ready for her close-up
Jessica Chastain
November 18, 2010
Actress Jessica Chastain’s high-stakes waiting game.
Jennifer Damiano
October 12, 2010
Jennifer Damiano is not a damsel in distress
Todd Phillips
October 12, 2010
Director Todd Phillips on getting over The Hangover, and why he’s a radical humanist at heart