Liquor taxes are going up all over the country, just when you’d think the Man would give us a respite and let us booze on the cheap to get over economic woes! Flavorpill asked the peeps on the other side of your Yuengling and Wild Turkey $5 happy hour special what exactly we need to do to keep our habits viable on the dole. We also wanted to know what it takes to become a bartender’s bud. After the jump what a few bartenders in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, and Miami had to say about keeping your buzz on without breaking your bank. Read More »
Porntrepreneur Joanna Angel, and her rock n’ roll take on adult entertainment, Burningangel.com, is white hot, but is she stoked enough to get keep our credit cards logged in even when we can’t pay for cable? What’s a porn-hungry consumer to do while shut in with swine-flu paranoia and a pile of unpaid bills? I stalked — I mean interviewed — Ms. Angel and asked her how porn is weathering the recession shit storm. Read More »
Repeat after me: Jeff Goldblum is creepy. OK now that we’ve established that we can discuss his first regular appearance on my beloved Law and Order: Criminal Intent, last night as Detective Zach Nichols, replacing the already much missed Chris Noth. Goldblum’s Detective Nichols was, well Goldblum. The writers threw in a back story about Goldblum being some kind of misunderstood savant who took seven years off the force on some mysterious vision quest (cue creepy Sci-Fi music), but like most character actors, he gets paid to play himself. Only time will tell if there will be any chemistry between himself, his (super-cute, I am so crushing on, even though she can’t act her way out of wet paper bag with a hack-saw) partner, and Eric Bogosian’s Capt. Danny Ross. Read More »
Allison Hemming is no stranger to the unemployment parade. In the ’90s, after she watched many of her friends get axed in the dot com burst, her answer to the chaos was to start the original, now legendary Pink Slip Parties, where people could console each other, get blasted, but most importantly, professionally network. Allison has since risen up to start the Hired Guns, a very successful talent agency that places creative professionals in high profile positions. (She also wrote Work it! How to Get Ahead, Save your Ass and Land a Job in any Economy!.) Who more perfect for us to ask what to do in a downturn? Read More »
Since the early ’90s we’ve seen the emergence of what some have been calling “outsider” and “urban” art — artists who used the street as their canvas and non-traditional mediums as their tools, but weren’t practicing what we’d normally title graffiti. On April 25th the work of many of these artists (including Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, KAWS, Mike Giant, FAILE, Banksy, Neck Face, and many more) will be featured at Phillips De Pury auction house in their Saturday@Phillips series. We caught up with Ken Miller (auction art consultant, ex-editor in chief of Tokion Magazine, and publisher of Revisionaries: A Decade of Art in Tokion) and Alex Smith (auction curator and Contemporary and Urban Art Specialist at Phillips de Pury & Co.) so we can get an insider’s point of view on the rise and relevance of this movement. Read More »
In an oddly New Age moment for us (Tax Day does funny things to people), Flavorwire consulted astrologist Kiki T (author of The Celestial Sexpot’s Handbook) about the current mess our economy is in. We thought since she can predict what the planets have to say about l’amour, maybe she can tell us what the fate of our 401(k)s will be. Being as Kiki was very accurate about “the potential” of our new President, pre-election, on national television we wanted to see what she thought about how we should handle our stimulus package. Read More »
Dick Zigun, the unofficial Mayor of Coney is going the extra mile to help support the arts and culture organization he founded over three decades ago. Coney Island U.S.A., the non-profit based out of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow are having their annual fundraiser and gala Thursday April 16 at Manhattan’s swank M2 Ultralounge.
This fundraiser helps to support the Mermaid Day Parade and all the fun programs the folks at the Sideshow do for us all summer that include a film festival, burlesque, the Coney Island Museum, and even a school for sideshow performers. Read More »
Spring arrived in New York City on soggy, gloomy wings, so we at Flavorwire thought it was a fitting time to attend the 2009 NY International Auto Show at the Jacob Javits Center. Not surprisingly, we found the general mood of the convention this year matched the gray weather. When I was young car shows were fun — you’d see bikini models at every booth and they featured cool stuff like the original Batmobile or Herman Munster’s coffin shaped hot-rod. This year’s show? A great big sigh. Read More »
Flavorwire stopped by the New School this past Friday to see what all the fuss was about. For the second time in less than five months, several New School students have protested New School policy by barricading themselves in one of the school’s buildings. The New York Times City Room blog caught a fairly brutal clip of what looked like some pretty intense pepper spraying and student takedowns by the NYPD. Read More »
It’s rough out there right now. Worry is at an all time high. Young Wall Street professionals are taking Xanax and Lexapro more often than Adderal these days. We stare into the void everyday looking for answers, yet none come. What are we to do? According to Pastor Jay Bakker (son of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye and star of IFC’s One Punk Under God) of the Revolution Church the answer is have faith. Read More »
