The Latin Grammys Go Experimental with Puerto Rican Rap and a Full Orchestra The arts market is experiencing a sort of crisis around the divide between concert art and concept art. Calle 13′s performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Latin Grammy Awards bridges that gap. Read more More
Unexpected Occupations, Unexpected Successes In less than one month, Occupy Wall Street has accomplished four important goals that the “professional left” has failed to pull off. What can and will come from the OWS movement? Nobody knows for sure. But Emily Goulding examines its successes thus far. Read more More
Viva el Arte: DC’s Capital Fringe Festival Reminiscent of Cuba By political accident, the type of work created in the capital of the Free World and the capital of the Commie World is similar. Great Recession-era Americans are no entirely longer sold on capitalism; Cuban artists are no longer entirely sold on communism. Read more More
Midnight in the Parisian Belle Epoque Midnight in Paris does what movies are supposed to do: tell a beautiful, entertaining story. But when the clock strikes midnight, the medium becomes the message. Like Woody Allen’s reflections on life itself, the film is flawed but well worth the while. Read more More
Clothing in the Boho Nation (Part 2 of 3) Two of the three pillars of the boho closet -– Forever 21 and American Apparel –- have been sued dozens of times by their employees. Both companies screw their workers, but in very different ways. What’s worse: sweatshops or sexual harassment? Read more More
Carter Chic: Clothing in the Boho Nation (Part 1 of 3) In Part I, Emily Goulding asks whether or not millennials dress in (Jimmy) Carter Chic. The Boho Nation dresses like Obama equals Carter, because it sure feels like Obama is Carter. If fashion is the subconscious of a culture, then this is what we’re feeling. Read more More
Addicted to What’s Bad for Us: Pancakes, the PRI, and the GOP The psychology of hunger, and the psychology of scarcity, thinks there’s never enough to go around. The body tells us, “Now is not the time to try new things,” even though a recession is really the perfect time to try new things. Read more More