Art television. “Random Acts of Flyness,” the exuberant, exquisite variety-show magazine of African American life and culture from indie filmmaker and artist Terence Nance, is dense yet fleet, political but mystical and as playful with form as anything outside of Adult Swim. Joe Pera’s dry, luminous miniature about an awkward middle-school music teacher in love […]
Blog: Rodarte Will Show Its Fall 2019 Collection in Los Angeles
Looks from Rodarte’s Spring 2019 runway show. Photo: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images After staging a romantic (yet rainy) return to New York Fashion Week last fall, designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy will host Rodarte‘s Fall 2019 runway show in their hometown of Los Angeles — Pasadena, to be exact — according to Vogue.com. Though an exact date has not been […]
Blog: Robert Lloyd’s best TV of 2018: ‘Lodge 49,’ ‘Random Acts of Flyness’ and Beyoncé’s Coachella stream
Art television. “Random Acts of Flyness,” the exuberant, exquisite variety-show magazine of African American life and culture from indie filmmaker and artist Terence Nance, is dense yet fleet, political but mystical and as playful with form as anything outside of Adult Swim. Joe Pera’s dry, luminous miniature about an awkward middle-school music teacher in love […]
Blog: Grammy facts and figures, including who has the most career wins
Welcome to the Grammys, an awards show fairly new to The Envelope. If like us, you are not fully immersed in this territory, here are a few tidbits to get you up to speed. Voters: Over 13,000 members of the Recording Academy, a Santa Monica-based organization of musicians, producers, recording… Source: L.A. Times – Entertainment […]
Blog: Grammy facts and figures, including who has the most career wins
Welcome to the Grammys, an awards show fairly new to The Envelope. If like us, you are not fully immersed in this territory, here are a few tidbits to get you up to speed. Voters: Over 13,000 members of the Recording Academy, a Santa Monica-based organization of musicians, producers, recording… Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles […]
Blog: Sister Act: On “My Sister, the Serial Killer” by Oyinkan Braithwaite
DECEMBER 19, 2018 WOE BE TO the novel protagonist that finds out a loved one is complicit in a serious crime. At such a moment, a wonderful gap opens in both the character and reader. This is someone the protagonist cares deeply about, and that someone is in big trouble. Worse, now that the main […]