Culture
In a world of emoticons and messages limited to 140 characters, sending a handwritten note is the correspondance equivalent of giving someone a big fat bear hug. And what better way to spread the love (and hugs) than with the positively inspired handmade cards, artwork and stationary by Garrison, NY, based husband and wife team, […]
It’s like us, in a web series (ish). Billed as “a comedy about two down and out New York gals who go to LA in search of a spiritual awakening,” Be Here Now(ish) follows the fortunes of Sam (played by Alexandra Roxo) and Nina (Natalia Leite), a New York City dating consultant and drug delivery […]
On a recent trip to California, I found myself at The Agape International Spiritual Center, a new thought, trans-denominational mega church in Culver City. Described as a community, a practice and an embodiment of evolving consciousness, founder, Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith envisioned it as “a movement that would take a stand for love, for peace, […]
If you haven’t yet seen the fabled show Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project get thee to the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, STAT! A compendium of tarot cards by 78 artists and designers, including Tracy Emin, Kehinde Wiley, Catherine Opie, Karl Lagerfeld, Nick Knight, Marc Jacobs, and Yayoi Kusama, the exhibition is on view through August 18. And if […]
Spiritual BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, Masochism) doesn’t even appear in Fifty Shades of Grey, but according to dominatrix Claire Black, customers are increasingly requesting it. Black, who “likes to explore dark and dirty sexuality and bring it into the light,” was giving a talk last Tuesday at South London’s Royal Vauxhall Tavern (a gay cabaret pub […]
Imagine Eat, Pray, Love, but minus the rose-tinted specs and told with a wicked sense of humour (not that we don’t love you Liz Gilbert) and you’ve got the gist of Australian radio host Mary Lou Stephens’ new memoir, Sex, Drugs and Meditation. In and out of rehab for her various addictions, and with enough […]
To New York’s Lower East Side, and a night of astrology themed burlesque at old school variety club The Slipper Room. Introduced by celebrity star-gazer Ophira Edut of www.astrostyle.com, Kiki and her Paper Dolls Troupe channeled the sexiest traits of each sign into their tease-me-please-me performances. For the audience, it was kind of like reading your […]
FEATURING a lip-pierced little girl experiencing something of a psychic awakening, the trippy-pretty video for Wisonsin folk band The Daredevil Christopher’s Wright’s “I & Thou” has been on repeat this week. Firstly there’s the track itself, which sounds like the sun setting on the first day of spring. “I woke up this morning, I thought […]