Most folks know about Sammy Hagar hawking tequila and Ted Nugent hosting caged hunts. But we had no idea that right in our almost-backyard of Neptune, New Jersey, one of our favorite rock guitarists, Dean Ween (a.k.a. Mickey Melchiondo), was running his own fishing boat and guide service. Mickey’s Guide Service sounded a hell of a lot cooler than a Cheeseburger in Paradise chain, so recently, Flavorwire correspondent and huge Ween fan Alex Dunbar went fishing with Ween. Take a three-hour tour with us after the jump.
Incorporating antique (we’re talking turn-of-the-last-century) photos and images, mapping site SepiaTown is like an online time capsule of cities around the world.
Users are able to upload historical images of buildings and other locations with precise addresses, so you can see just what the spot you’re standing on looked like 100 years ago. SepiaTown’s Then/Now feature allows you to compare a historical image to the current Google Street View, or you can map historical events, such as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 or the 1928 UK Suffrage movement.
He’s been called (by us, even) “the black Mitch Hedberg,” but Brooklyn-via-Chicago comic Hannibal Buress is standing on his own with his first comedy album.
Hannibal (yes, that’s his real name) finds the absurd in the everyday on My Name Is Hannibal, from flaming cocktails and metal arms to fire SUVs and pickle juice. It’s his laid-back delivery that garners comparisons to Hedberg — but Buress’ stand-up is consistently edgier and far more constructed. The SNL writer has performed with everyone from Aziz Ansari to The Daily Show‘s John Oliver, and New Yorkers can see him weekly at his comedy revue at the Knitting Factory Brooklyn.
M.I.A. had a lot riding on Saturday’s HARD NYC festival on Governors Island. Following disappointing reviews of her latest album and the cancellation of the LA incarnation of the event, this was a chance for her to soar back, phoenix-like, and reclaim her crown. Unfortunately, a poor sound mix and a thunderstorm that cut her set short saw to it that that didn’t happen. Fortunately, however, for the thousands of fans in attendance, the day offered plenty of other highlights to make the excursion more than worthwhile.
Despite soaring temps and sound quality at one stage (the headlining stage, unfortunately) that Pitchfork itself would give no more than a 5.8, the Pitchfork Music Fest this weekend in Union Park, Chicago (featuring Wolf Parade, Local Natives, Beach House, Panda Bear, Girls, and Best Coast, plus LCD and Free Energy), was the chillwave capital of the world. And if we’ve learned anything about music in 2010, it’s that where there is chillwave, there are bros. Seriously: there were more fanny packs, topsiders, oversized tank tops, cargo shorts, rip-off Wayfarers, and headbands than we could count. In the name of fashion, we have rounded up just a few of our top picks for your viewing pleasure. Thanks for the bro-down, Chicago! See you next year.
Online foodie destination the Urban Grocer explores and explains restaurants, products, ingredients, and cooking tips, with a scope that extends from Chicago to Melbourne and Paris to Mexico City.
Founder Caitlin Zaino and her growing team report on trends worldwide, and it’s not just about the food itself. The Urban Grocer also shares and investigates design — creative labels and packaging, chic restaurants — and the people behind the eats, offering interviews with chefs, food artists, and critics.
The online Oscars are approaching, and you, the common Internet user, have a say as to who takes home the Webby.
There are literally hundreds of nominees in dozens of categories; vote for the Onion or Fail Blog in the Humor Site category, YouTube Symphony Orchestra or Twilight Remixed in Video Mashups, and Dropbox or Tumblr in Web Services and Apps. Equally as exciting: you’re almost certain to discover sites and services new to you that are about to make your life way better.
PBS’ Frontline series pretty much wrote the book on public-affairs documentaries; now you can watch full episodes of the Peabody and Pulitzer award-winning show online, with more opportunities for in-depth investigating and interaction.
Frontline has been exploring the weightiest of topics since 1983. On the series’ website, you can watch 88 entire episodes, covering everything from Mormons to the meth epidemic, Abu Ghraib to the Madoff affair. Go “Behind Taliban Lines,” or learn the secrets credit-card companies don’t want you to know. Look for online extras, too: for the recent “Flying Cheap” show, about Buffalo Flight 3407, you can read responses from the producer and key figures in the story, learn safety info by airport, and join the discussion yourself.
We’ve always felt like there was a great designer hidden within us; sometimes we just need a little incentive for the guy to show his face. $500 sounds like just the push we need, how about you?
Here’s the deal: Create a Bravo-inspired t-shirt design using their new drawing tool. No scissors. No needles. No experience necessary. Just show them what the phrase “By Bravo” means to you, in your original design. The Grand Prize Winner’s Bravo-inspired design will be printed on a t-shirt and sold on Bravotv.com. Plus, you’ll get 20 free tees printed with your winning design and $500 dollars. Two lucky runners-up each win $100.
When Norman Mailer and photographer Jon Naar investigated NYC’s graff scene in 1973, most of the artists felt the movement was in decline — but that didn’t stop the pair from documenting (and validating) the in-fact nascent art form.
Teen taggers from the Bronx illuminate the life — and perils — of a graffiti artist to Mailer, who uses the book to connect the burgeoning form to works within MoMA and the Met. This new edition of The Faith of Graffiti contains more than 30 additional photos, and comes at a time when the now-mainstream nature of graffiti affords a whole new perspective.
