Scientists are now saying that the average age at which a person is considered a grown-up is rising. Some say 22. Some say 26. We say never, and it looks like the good people at the Art Prostitute gallery agree with us. The latest exhibit, Low Tech High Life, features…
Imagine, if you will, a video that features a bumpin’ beat and several scantily clad ladies—and what little they are clad in is composed of faux animal skin-bumping and grinding all in a row. There are pelvic thrusts and libidinous hand gestures, shimmying torsos and lots of skin. Oh, and…
If fast food served with wine-in-a-box is not quite bringing the romance anymore, the Veuve restaurant might have the solution. The restaurant is serving a four-course dinner that includes absinthe, the infamous alcoholic drink whose principle component can be used in the synthesis of psychedelic drugs. Woo-hoo! The drink, often…
What better way to drink your cosmopolitan than with a splash of culture? Try it at the Nasher Sculpture Center this Thursday night. And if you’re scratching your head then you are sooo out of the scene. Everyone who’s anyone knows every third Thursday, the Nasher goes lounge-like and becomes…
Fresh off the Punisher tour with Carlos Mencia, Cristela Alonzo returns to her home ground on her own this week. As a writer for Mencia’s Comedy Central show, Mind of Mencia, Alonzo helps Mencia rant about everything from race relations to gas prices. On her own, she tends to mix…
Finally, a family-friendly film has come along that doesn’t fill us with the indomitable desire to get a vasectomy. Not to be confused with Unaccompanied Minors (the recently released kid comedy about a group of grade-school students trapped in an airport who have to avoid being systematically deflowered by Wilmer…
Maybe Dallas artist Richard Ross should be careful when he invokes the name of African gods in his works. Those gods can get a little touchy. Ross’ current show at the Magnolia Theatre in the West Village, Falling From the Mouth of Nyami, features eight paintings based on an African…
Forever Plaid is the story of four singers—Sparky, Smudge, Frankie and Jinx—who are on their way to a big gig when their cherry-red Corvette is broadsided by a school bus full of Catholic teenagers. As is customary, the God-fearing go unscathed while the rock ‘n’ rollers are doomed to a…
What Vogue editor Diana Vreeland was to fashion in the mid-20th century, Dorothy Draper was to interior design: an advocate of rich color, sumptuous fabrics and a touch of eccentricity. Born to wealth, former debutante Draper created a signature style that usually included black-and-white checkerboard floors, baroque mirrors, brightly painted…
“T.I.A.,” mutters Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), slouched across a bar in Sierra Leone. It is 1999. As the West obsesses over Clinton’s blowjob, the West African nation is mired in a savage civil war. Our hero, a world-weary soldier of fortune, has struck up a conversation with Maddy Bowen (Jennifer…
About Will Smith’s estimable talents, there is no doubt. Six Degrees of Separation, Ali…um…the “Parents Just Don’t Understand” video—the man’s got skills to pay the bills, yours and mine and his. That he seldom uses them, or their attendant clout, is dispiriting. This is an actor coming off a streak…
Holy, holy, moly. Go to WaterTower Theatre, if you dare, to witness the “world premiere” of Happy Holi-divas!, a craptacular sleigh ride of Christmas-themed claptrap that will jingle-jangle you into a headache that goes pah-rum-pah-pum-pum on the top of your skull. In one two-hour musical revue, collaborating writers James Paul…
Talladega Nights (Columbia) This cut of Will Ferrell’s NASCAR comedy runs 13 minutes longer than the theatrical version, and that doesn’t take into account the deleted and extended scenes, outtakes, phony commercials, public-service announcements, and gag reel. A movie that already seemed to be constructed from deleted scenes is well…
Nintendo has achieved the impossible: My 50-year-old, non-gaming father wants a Wii for Christmas. Either I’ve been whisked to Bizarro World, or The House That Mario Built is on to something big. With the release of its oddly monikered next-gen system, Nintendo may just have revolutionized the way America will…
AFI: I Heard a Voice (Interscope) Air Buddies (Disney) Ali Rap (ESPN) The Andy Griffith Show: The Complete Series (Paramount) Barnyard (Paramount) The Chronicles of Narnia: Four-Disc Extended Edition (Disney) A Dead Calling (Lions Gate) The Doors (Lions Gate) James Bond: Ultimate Edition Volumes 3 and 4 (MGM) John Wayne…
I’m pissed off at comedian Robert Hawkins. See, his MySpace profile has some crap-ass jokes on it (for example, under favorite television he posts: CSI: Your Granny and Little House on Your Pappy…it’s that kind of thing, many, many times). So I wanted to just blast him not only for…
When you leave the theater after seeing a good movie, you might say, “Wow! That was great.” When you leave the theater after a bad movie, you probably say something like, “There’s no way those traveling pants fit all of those girls,” or “I just think Vin Diesel brought more…
Of all the movies about a carpenter from another world being shown around the holidays, The Day the Earth Stood Still is perhaps the most relevant to our current global political climate. OK, so it’s not about an actual carpenter, but someone who adopts the name Carpenter. The 1951 film…
Before the fuss over Harry Potter corrupting children to pagan ways, much was made of The Chronicles of Narnia being a Christian allegory. Who would have thought? Kids sure don’t; they are above such analysis and petty trifling. At its core Narnia is a simply a collection of fantastic images…
Christmas has never been the idyllic, idealized time of year that we all pretend it is, and no movie ever captured the season’s special blend of stress, therapy fodder and, yes, love, more than National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. You all know the story, penned by John Hughes, of Chevy Chase’s…
I’m too old to understand the phenomenon of Disney’s High School Musical, about two teens who meet at karaoke, discover mutual interests and, coincidentally, attend the same school. The only way I knew about it was through the weekly Target circulars in which the soundtrack was consistently on sale. This…
While scads of famous chiseled cheekbones grin from the weight loss section of your local bookstore, there’s one super-celebrity who refuses to endorse the latest “no carbs, no fat, no taste” fad. Despite past pleas from Dr. Atkins, Dr. Ornish and even Suzanne Somers, Santa has maintained his morbidly obese…
