What makes a man stylish? A 1969 magazing article on
Paul McCartney explores.
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Either geek culture is reaching its apex, or the reality trend is running out of ideas: The National Geographic channel has announced a new series focusing on
comic book shop owners and denizens:
On Friday, July13th at 8pm (ET, PT) the National Geographic cable
channel will present Comic Store Heroes, a one-hour reality show set in
New York’s Midtown Comics. The documentary-style show will follow the
lives of staffers Gerry, Thor, and Alex as they deal with all sorts of
geek and enthusiast customers while simultaneously planning their booth
at the New York Comic Con.
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Holy crap! Missed this video from the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert. Note that
Grace Jones is in her early 60s and keeps that hoop spinning through the whole song.
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Gaumont International Television and producer Martha De Laurentiis are teaming with Drive
director Nicolas Refn for a series that will be based on the
character created by Jean-Claude Forest in a graphic novel and made
famous in the 1968 sci-fi movie staring Jane Fonda as a sexpot tasked
with finding and stopping the evil weapons inventor.
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Yoko Ono has a new, 14-minute, single out in collaboration with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon and a full-length album is
due out this fall.