Susanna Moore is a great writer I’ve recently discovered–her novel, In the Cut, was made into a film by Jane Campion in 2003 with Meg Ryan. It’s a dark movie about a reserved teacher and her erotic relationship with a cop whose investigating a possible serial killer, slightly controversial at the time because Ryan shows […]
Is it my imagination or do bonobos seem to be very popular these days? They’re the chimpanzee’s first cousin–a branch of apes that evolved from the gorilla about 7 million years ago, the other two branches being humans and chimps. Native to the north of the congo, these apes have only really been “discovered” and […]
I found this photo recently online and decided this about summed up every creepy boyfriend my friends, sisters, and I have ever had. It’s a summation in two parts; the guy in the background is the quirky, geeky boyfriend–the one you meet at a thrift store or animation festival, the one you think at first, […]
The trailer for the newest Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) Movie has just been released. The movie features Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody and Owen Wilson who are all brothers taking a trip across India. Click the image below to view the movie trailer:
This was good.
Next Stop, Squalor Is poverty tourism—”poorism,” they call it—exploration or exploitation? “It is a vision of urban hell. It is also one of India’s newest tourist attractions.” An interesting article in the Smithsonian Mag by John Lancaster