Category Art
Film Festival
As some of you may know, I have abandoned Brooklyn to move back to the Bay Area because the recession is kicking my delicate butt. So, here’s a poster I noticed in Gordo’s this evening. It piqued my interest because I am quite partial to women becoming a significant force in the film world (Go […]
Happy Women’s History Month!
I have been reading the book, Cunt. It’s a fantastic book by Inga Muscio. The author’s website has womanifestoes that fans and readers have submitted. So, to start off Women’s History Month, I am going to include one. “Irigaray wrote that as women we are always plural: two lips touching each other, secretly, constantly. as […]
National Museum Day is September 26, 2009
View from inside the Brooklyn Museum amidst Rodin’s Burghers of Calais The Smithsonian sponsored National Museum Day is tomorrow. It is a nationwide celebration of museums, large and small! There are over 800 institutions participating nationwide. Once you download the admissions card (on the website) you and a guest have gained free admission to the participating […]
ABC Carpet and Home
ABC Carpet and Home is in the Flatiron district right above Union Square on 18th and Broadway. This store has six floors and has installed a restaurant next door, Pipa Tapas y Mas (which has the most delicious brunch!) to show off some of their wares in action. Believe me, if I could afford to […]
Tyler Perry and Ntozake Shange
Turns out Tyler Perry according to Variety (which I thought was a relic of 1950s Hollywood) has been asked to produce the venerable Ntozake Shange’s For Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf. Having been a theatre major in a past life and aching to see myself reflected in my passion I […]
Luggage
No longer in college (for two years; not to mention I am pretty settled here in Brooklyn) there has been no need for humungous luggage prepared to take a beating for the 3000 mile trip every three to four months between BDL and SFO or Oakland Airport, so I have been gradually replacing all my […]
Lady Film Directors
There are so few ladies directing feature films that I feel an obligation to watch in homage to my sister’s future career as a filmmaker. Of late, there have been Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe, Kathyrn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, and now it seems Jane Campion has a wonderful film to be released in mid-September […]
You Like Posters? So Do I.
Northland Poster Collective had some good things to say, or sell rather. Unfortunately, it closed in June. Now, I meant to blog about this ages ago. But, they have up and closed on me. Where am I going to get my bumper stickers that say: “Keep Your Rosaries Off My Ovaries!” and other suck ilk? […]
Revolutionary Love
I was doing my daily reading (see those links on the side of this here blog) and I came across a link to another blog, fem.men.ist. The writer, Richard, a man who self-identifies as a “dj, producer, writer, activist, feminist, unapologetic straight ally, snuggler, Jamaican New Yorker in Oakland” has just blown open my mind […]
Anjulie
Anjulie is a Canadian pop artist who absorbed M.I.A. and Santigold’s style into her wardrobe. But, at the same time, people are comparing her to Nelly Furtado, even though parts of her album definitely sound like Corinne Bailey Rae and Norah Jones (by the way, where have they been?!). Regardless, I really like her music […]
LadyPolitik 