| | | The Comics Issue: If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don't They Pay? BY ROY EDROSO  If a Lonely Comics nerd from, say, 1961 were suddenly whisked by Rip Hunter, Time Master to the present day, he'd think comics had taken over the world. Kids are still reading comics, but they also fill racks in bookstores under the name "graphic novel" (no one is fooled). Comic art hangs on museum walls; there are even museums devoted to them. Go to the cineplex, and at least one screen will likely be showing a comic-book movie. If our bedazzled nerd friend found his way to the MoCCA Fest in New York this weekend, he'd see hundreds of comics artists giving classes, selling comics, and signing autographs, just like movie stars. Truly, he would think, this is the Golden Age. But after a w... more >>
| | | | | | | | Can Sadat X Make Wine Hip-Hop? BY BEN WESTHOFF  Rappers have sipped on gin and juice, St. Ides, Courvoisier, Alizé, Hpnotiq, Cristal, and, of course, sizzurp, but have seemingly never had much time for wine. Recent attempts to incorporate it into song have ranged from bumbling (Fabolous notes that his lady has "enough class for wine/still handle Patrón") to pshaw-worthy, such as that time Kanye was "beasting off the Riesling." V... more >> | | | | | | | | Saro Bistro Seeks Out Grandma's Lost Empire BY LAUREN SHOCKEY  Never had Balkan food? Fear not—it's damn bland. Maybe I'm being unfair to the culinary legacy of a region marred by centuries of strife. But even my waitress at Saro Bistro, a new Lower East Side restaurant, agreed. She explained that the bright green peppers in the glass in front of our mismatched antique plates weren't just decoration, but should be chomped on with the meal. "The cuisin... more >> | | | | | | Meek's Cutoff: Western Disunion BY J. HOBERMAN  Tenacious indie Kelly Reichardt has specialized in quirky, minimalist quasi–road movies in which loners come unmoored in some great American space. Meek’s Cutoff, shown at the last New York Film Festival, is that and more—one great leap into the 19th-century unknown. The members of a small wagon train crossing the Oregon Trail in 1845 follow their bombastic, wrongheaded guide into ... more >> | | | | | | | | Free Will Astrology: April 6-12, 2011 BY ROB BREZSNY  ARIES [March 21–April 19] When he was three years old, Charlie Sheen got a hernia from yelling too much and too loud. I don't encourage you to be like that. However, I do think it's an excellent time to tune in to the emotions that first made an appearance when you were very young. Maybe righteous anger is one of those vitalizing emotions, but there must be others as well—crazy longin... more >> | | | | | | | | The Misbegotten Career of Roy Lichtenstein BY R.C. BAKER  Roy Lichtenstein is the most overrated artist of the 20th century. Sure, he's a crowd pleaser. His heroically scaled paintings of denizens from a disdained strata of American culture—tearful maidens, wisecracking fighter pilots, and other characters cribbed from comic books—hang in museums worldwide. A woman stares at an alarm clock, her pink, three-foot-high face crafted from a fiel... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared There are certain words that existed way before Charlie Sheen ever thought to say them, but when he finally strung them together in his particular fashion, they came alive! Thus, he would like to ... Fork in the Road Although Gwyneth Paltrow may show her smirking mug on the cover of Bon Appétit's June issue, the magazine's May issue - the first under Editor-in-Chief Adam Rapoport - will be much easier t... La Daily Musto Check out this short but zippy clip in which Mr. Mickey Boardman and myself chat about our upcoming gig judging the Mr. Gay Philadelphia pageant in a hot swirl of brotherly love. We tell you ex... Sound of the City The Beastie Boys' Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2--the now-old-enough-to-be-men's first non-instrumental record in seven years--comes out on May 3, and "Make Some Noise," a low-end-heavy track that has... Corporate Joe Tone, a veteran VVM editor and manager, has been named editor-in-chief of the Dallas Observer. Tone previously was editor of The Pitch of Kansas City, which VVM recently sold to Southcomm, I... | | | | |
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