The 2012 Academy Awards Nominations: Our Educated Guesses

In these very serious and not at all snarky Oscar nominations predictions, I wanted to begin by criticizing AMPAS for being conservative, self-serving and too politically correct, singling out members that double as nominees. I also wanted to discuss how demanding it is to watch an absurdly long and lackluster…

Peen in 3-D And Other Delightful Reads on Sale This Week

The term “coffee table book” typically conjures images that delve into either insufferably dull or insufferably cute territory — things like the evolution of American coinage, or little puppies dressed up in Halloween costumes.However, with TASCHEN books proliferating tabletops nowadays, you’re more likely to set your cup of tea on…

Wally Cardona and the Disorienting Experience of Tool Is Loot

Working separately, from New York and Paris, Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey are trying to undo themselves. For Tool Is Loot, their upcoming performance presented by Tigertail Productions at the Colony Theatre, they subjected their aesthetic assumptions to the opinions and desires of total strangers. Starting with separate “empty solos”…

The Man Repeller Works Her Styling Magic on Us

Leandra Medine of The Man Repeller made The Webster her home for a weekend where she met her fans and held one-on-one styling sessions.Arm party and all, Leandra is exactly what you would expect in person — lanky, goofy, and with a killer sense of style. The blogueuse helped me…

Yelp Launches Beret Cinema Club at O Cinema

​”Drunk and a movie” is the new “dinner and a movie,” says Rony M., an Elite Yelper as indicated by his “Elite 12′ ” status to the right of his mini profile pic. Starting Wednesday, the new Yelp Beret Cinema Club will host its first ever filmophile event at O…

Five Mobile Apps to Help You Share Your Boring Life

Andy Warhol once claimed, in the then-future, everyone would have 15 minutes of fame. Fast-forward to the post-internet, reality TV-fueled Twitterverse of the modern era and you’ll find he was basically right. Thanks to Facebook news feeds and shows like America’s Got Talent, everyone thinks they’ve got what it takes,…

Community‘s Not Canceled! Five Storylines We Hope To See This Spring

Attention, Human Beings! We have some news that is cool, cool, cool. We’ve been worried that the critically adored, genre-defying, pop-culture-skewering show Community would never return from the purgatory of “indefinite hiatus” imposed by NBC last year. But on Friday, the network’s entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt told reporters that Community…

Miami City Ballet Shows Guts in “Viscera” Debut

There’s no doubt that Miami City Ballet is graceful. The debut this weekend of “Viscera,” a new work by choreographer Liam Scarlett, proves the company has guts. The 25-year-old choreographer with Britain’s Royal Ballet created the piece specifically for MCB dancers by channeling the power of the principal women. On…

Miami TV Babe Stella Vidal Ranked As Sexy As J-Lo

Miami’s hotties have long been overlooked by the rest of the nation. (We think they’re just jealous.) So it’s refreshing to see one of our own get the recognition she deserves — especially when she’s this fun to look at.Livin La Vida host Stella Vidal was ranked #52 on mostbeautifullist.com’s…

Back to the Cold War with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the 1974 spy novel generally regarded as the writer’s finest, is predicated on a pair of enigmatic personalities: the colorless bureaucratic master-spook George Smiley and the double agent the Soviets have planted near the top of British intelligence whom Smiley must unmask.Although not…