Everything Is Terrible Keeps a Video Library of Shame

Once, in the ’80s, we starred in a DIY inspirational video where making waffles was a metaphor for career success. We thought the death of the VHS format meant the evidence would eventually disintegrate in some faraway Salvation Army. Yet there’s a group of seven friends that searches for cringe-worthy…

Sheryl Underwood, Optic Nerve, Everything Is Terrible

FridayWe warned you about the limited seating, and yes, both screenings of the Optic Nerve festival are sold out. But maybe you can go and just hover outside MOCA to absorb some video art vibes?A comedy show in a roadside motel? Miami, we are falling back in love with you…

Drink and Be Literary

Nestled into a three-martini lunch at the Algonquin Hotel, Dorothy Parker famously quipped: “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” So in the spirit of those with discerning literary tastes, and a Mad Men-level appetite for booze, Books & Books…

Beyond Ipanema

Everything we know about Brazil we learned from City of God (feral children, guns, shanty towns) or profiles on the Travel Channel (breasts, buns, beach). But catch a couple of screenings at this year’s 14th annual Brazilian Film Festival, and the country appears mired in the same domestic angst as…

Street Dreams

This Saturday, two exhibits focusing on street culture open at Butter Gallery. If your mug appears in the first show, “The It Click,” it’s because you’ve been face-hunted by a nocturnal photog who liked your street style. Gallery owner Francisco de la Torre curated this street photography exhibit, which includes…

Thrill Street Blues

This Saturday, two exhibits focusing on street culture open at Butter Gallery If your mug appears in the first show, “The It Click,” it’s because you’ve been face-hunted by a nocturnal photog who liked your street style. If you find yourself a subject in the other exhibit, “The Tenderloin Project,”…

Drinking and Drawing Proves Drunks Are Better Animators

Tonight at the News Lounge, ladies and gents will hunch over light boxes and scribble on note cards while a rowdy bunch behind them waits its turn. It’s Drinking and Drawing, a sort of animated jam session where the artistically inclined come together over pints and highballs to create a…

Use Your Illusion

Let’s say your optic nerve went rogue and started tampering with the way your retina’s vision was processed by your brain. Instead of blue skies and green trees, those millions of nerve fibers told your gray matter you were actually seeing scenes from 1960s surgical videos. You thought you saw…

Viral Assassins

Once, in the ’80s, we starred in a DIY inspirational video where making waffles was a metaphor for career success. We thought the death of the VHS format meant the evidence would eventually disintegrate in some faraway Salvation Army thrift store. Yet there’s a group of seven friends that searches…

Sweden’s Spunky Bruisers

If you gulped down all three works of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy — The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest — and you’re thirsty for more of the Nordic noir, check out Pippi Longstocking at the Miracle…

Sweden’s Spunky Bruisers

If you gulped down all three works of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy — The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest — and you’re thirsty for more of the Nordic noir, check out Pippi Longstocking at the Miracle…

Sweden’s Spunky Bruisers

If you gulped down all three works of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy — The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest — and you’re thirsty for more of the Nordic noir, check out Pippi Longstocking at the Miracle…

Sweden’s Spunky Bruisers

If you gulped down all three works of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy — The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest — and you’re thirsty for more of the Nordic noir, check out Pippi Longstocking at the Miracle…

Sweden’s Spunky Bruisers

If you gulped down all three works of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy — The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest — and you’re thirsty for more of the Nordic noir, check out Pippi Longstocking at the Miracle…

Sweden’s Spunky Bruisers

If you gulped down all three works of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy — The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest — and you’re thirsty for more of the Nordic noir, check out Pippi Longstocking at the Miracle…

Mouth to Mouth

Just as only the true king of England was able to remove the sword Excalibur from the stone, only the brave will be able to take a diamond from the mouth of Colombian performance artist María José Arjona. This Thursday, she’ll perform the third act in her Vires series at…