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4 weeks ago | 
villagevoice.com | Michele Stueven |R.C. Baker
On Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” during WWII, November 1938, Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked as Nazis demolished buildings with sledgehammers and rioters destroyed more than 1,400 synagogues and prayer rooms throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. More than 7,000 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed.
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4 weeks ago | 
villagevoice.com | Brett Callwood |R.C. Baker
Lyris Faron: I have loved Liz Phair for a very long time. I had never heard anything like her album Exile in Guyville when I discovered it in high school. It was around the time that I was starting to write songs, and it helped give me the courage to continue doing so. I found this quote around then from an interview with her. She said that songs are always in you. And they’re living in a slab of marble. And all you have to do is chip away at them, sculpt them, and you’ll find them.
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4 weeks ago | 
villagevoice.com | Jon Stojan |Tim Brinkhof |R.C. Baker |Mary Lyn Maiscott
Founded on the belief that “Trust Is the New Gold,” Fisher Liberty Gold has cultivated a reputation for integrity, transparency, and white-glove service. With a team of seasoned specialists and account executives, the company serves thousands of Americans seeking a reliable path to financial stability through gold and silver ownership. “We believe in educating first, selling second,” said a spokesperson for Fisher Liberty Gold.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Kalyn Corrigan |R.C. Baker
Don’t try to outrun your pain: It will come back to haunt you, and it will most likely happen while you’re wearing a shirt adorned with your own face. That’s the moral of The Ballad of Wallis Island, a charming British dramedy in the same vein as Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Juno, and John Carney films like Sing Street and Once. Based on co-writers Tom Basden and Tim Key’s own 2007 short, “The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island,” the feature-length version sticks to a modest scale.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Michael Atkinson |R.C. Baker |Tim Brinkhof
When Benito Mussolini learned that the Nazis had begun negotiating Italy’s surrender to the Allies, in the spring of 1945, the fascist dictator jumped into his Alfa Romeo and did not look back. Leaving Milan, he caught up with a group of soldiers heading toward neutral Switzerland.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Jon Stojan |R.C. Baker
ReelShort is a huge player in the entertainment world with established media outlets like the New York Times reporting on its success and influence in modern media. This shortform entertainment app offers brief episodic series which can be viewed one-by-one or continually as a longform series. Droves of viewers are consuming the offerings of ReelShort with women and teens (a highly attractive demographic) leading the charge.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Michael Cobb |Kyle Eustice |R.C. Baker |Mary Lyn Maiscott
Photographer Glen E. Friedman’s resume reads like an ’80s alt-kid’s dream. Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, and Run-DMC are a mere handful of the bands that have stepped in front of his lens. Add professional skateboarders like Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, and Jay Adams, and a perfect intersection of subcultures that effortlessly defined an era presents itself.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Brett Callwood |R.C. Baker
Eric Richter: It’s close to impossible for me to pick my favorite album. Having that said, there are a handful of records that changed my life in one way or another. I was reminded of one when an old friend of mine posted the question, “Name one perfectly produced record.” The first record that came to mind was Swervedriver’s Mezcal Head. Producer Alan Moulder knew exactly what to do with Swervedriver’s enormous swirling guitar sound and together they created my favorite shoegaze album of all-time.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Jon Stojan |R.C. Baker
With a bold new division, a growing presence in New York, and a relentless commitment to defying convention, ROGUE is rewriting the playbook for consumer and personal brandsMost brands stick to the formula. Safe strategies, predictable campaigns, and boring messaging that blends in rather than stands out. For media and brand strategist Steven Le Vine, ROGUE was built to do the opposite.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Mary Lyn Maiscott |R.C. Baker |Robert Shuster
“We got used to seeing genitals onscreen but held our breath to contain our emotion when Marlon Brando sodomized Maria Schneider.” So wrote Annie Ernaux about Last Tango in Paris in her memoir The Years. The year in question was 1972, a politically and artistically volatile time that included the shocking “butter scene” Ernaux described.
