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Montez Press Radio
Montez Press Radio (also known as MPR) is a New York-based internet radio station, performance space, and non-profit arts organization. The platform was founded in 2018 by ''Montez Press'' founder Anna Clark, Stacy Skolnik, and Thomas Laprade. Montez Press Radio is directly inspired by pirate radio, public-access television, and DIY culture more broadly. In a profile for ''The New York Times'', writer Ezra Marcus wrote that that station has "penetrating reach into the underground dimensions of the city's art, literature, nightlife and music scenes." It is located in (and is occasionally associated with) Lower Manhattan's Dimes Square "microneighborhood." Past contributors to Montez Press Radio programming include Hua Hsu, John Early and Theda Hammel, Jon Wilson, Screen Slate, Mykki Blanco, Dean Kissick, Frost Children, Miho Hatori, Laraaji, Shayne Oliver, Legacy Russell, Alphonse Pierre, Shannon Briggs, Isaac Julien, Julianna Huxtable, Gary Indiana, Jon Caramanica, Gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal Street (Manhattan)
Canal Street is a major east–west street of over in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States, running from East Broadway between Essex and Jefferson Streets in the east, to West Street between Watts and Spring Streets in the west. It runs through the neighborhood of Chinatown, and forms the southern boundaries of SoHo and Little Italy as well as the northern boundary of Tribeca. The street acts as a major connector between Jersey City, New Jersey, via the Holland Tunnel ( I-78), and Brooklyn in New York City via the Manhattan Bridge. It is a two-way street for most of its length, with two unidirectional stretches between Forsyth Street and the Manhattan Bridge. History By 1800, Collect Pond, one of New York City's few natural sources of fresh water, had become completely polluted with sewage and run-off from the tanneries, breweries, and other workshops and factories around it. Run-off from the pond, including one "sluggish stream" which traveled part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shayne Oliver
Shayne Oliver is a fashion designer, musician, and creative director based in New York City. He is the co-founder and design director of Hood By Air, a fashion brand he established together with designer Raul Lopez in 2006. In 2013, Oliver was named as one of the 25 Greatest Black Fashion Designers by ''Complex''. Early years and education Oliver was born in Minnesota in 1988. After living for several years in Trinidad as a child, he moved to Brooklyn in 2000. At the age of thirteen Oliver began going to clubs and attending DJ nights. During that time, he met many people with whom he would later collaborate including many of the queer artists who later would influence his work. As a teenager, Oliver attended the Harvey Milk High School, an East Village public school designed for but not limited to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth who may be at risk where they live. Through his experiences at the school, he became involved in the Ballroom scene, where he was taken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autofiction
Autofiction is, in literary criticism, a form of fictionalized autobiography. Definition In autofiction, an author may decide to recount their life in the Third-person narrative, third person, to modify significant details and characters, use invented subplots and imagined scenarios with real-life characters in the service of a search for self. In this way, autofiction shares similarities with the Bildungsroman as well as the New Narrative movement and has parallels with Faction (literature), faction, a genre devised by Truman Capote to describe his work of narrative nonfiction ''In Cold Blood''. Serge Doubrovsky coined the term in 1977 with reference to his novel ''Fils''. However, autofiction arguably existed as a practice with ancient roots long before Doubrovsky coined the term. Michael Skafidas argues that the first-person narrative can be traced back to the confessional subtleties of Sappho's lyric "I." Philippe Vilain distinguishes autofiction from autobiographical novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Drunken Canal
''The Drunken Canal'' was a New York-based print newspaper. The publication was founded in 2020 by Michelle "Gutes" Guterman and Claire Banse. The paper focused on youth culture in New York's Lower East Side. History In a ''New York Times'' article by Ben Smith, the publication was cited as a pushback against the homogenization of social media platforms. Articles published in the paper include an interview between Cat Marnell and Caroline Calloway. Its September 2021 issue was shot by Daniel Arnold and outfitted by Thom Browne. The paper partnered with the Tribeca Festival to produce a Battle of the Bands event judged by Nick Sansano and Despot. The magazine's editors were sponsored by the meal replacement drink, Soylent, and traveled to report on parties at Art Basel Art Basel is a for-profit, privately owned and managed, international art fair staged annually in Basel (Switzerland), Miami Beach (US), Hong Kong and Paris. Art Basel provides a platform for gallerie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cities Aviv
Wilbert Gavin Mays (born 1989), better known by his stage name Cities Aviv, is an American rapper and record producer from Memphis, Tennessee. He is also the founder of the independent record label Total Works (also known as D.O.T.) Early life Gavin Mays was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Overton High School and Cordova High School. In middle school he started listening to Non Phixion and Necro but also At the Drive-In and Deadsy. At the age of 20, he dropped out of the University of Memphis, where he studied journalism. Career Prior to his career as a rapper, Mays was the lead singer of a hardcore punk band, Copwatch, as well as a roadie for his friend's bands. During his involvement with the band, he began experimenting with hip hop music, eventually making the full leap into the genre. In 2011, he released his debut mixtape, '' Digital Lows'', which received positive reviews from music publications such as ''Pitchfork'' and '' Spin''. In 2012 he re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth Price
Seth Price (born 1973 in East Jerusalem) is a New York City-based multi-disciplinary post-conceptual artist. He lives and works in New York City. Early life Price was born in the village of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, Palestine in 1973. His parents had travelled to Sheikh Jarrah on behalf of the Quaker organization American Friends Service Committee and established a legal aid clinic for the local Palestinian population. Price lived there until he was two years old. Price then moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended Brookline public schools. He later attended Brown University where he received his BA in 1998. Price has described his ethnic heritage as "Welsh/Greek/American WASP." Writing Recently, Price published "Machine Time" in ''Heavy Traffic 1''; in a year's end roundup in ''The Paris'' ''Review'' assistant editor Olivia Kan-Sperling cited it as "the best fiction I read this year;" it was also acclaimed in ''Interview Magazine'.'' In 2020, Price published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moor Mother
Camae Ayewa, (born November 19, 1981) better known by her stage name Moor Mother, is an American poet, musician, and activist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is one half of the collective Black Quantum Futurism, along with Rasheedah Phillips, and co-leads the groups Irreversible Entanglements and 700 Bliss. Early life and career Ayewa was born in Aberdeen, Maryland, where she grew up in a public housing project. She moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to study photography at the Art Institute. In 2016, Moor Mother released a studio album, ''Fetish Bones'', on Don Giovanni Records. The album, which was released alongside a 122-page book of poetry, was included on year-end lists by ''Pitchfork (website), Pitchfork'', ''Rolling Stone'', and ''The Wire (magazine), The Wire''. In 2017, she released a studio album, ''The Motionless Present'', on The Vinyl Factory. It featured collaborations with PTP (artist collective), Geng, DJ Haram, Mental Jewelry, and Rasheedah Phillips. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bar Italia (band)
Bar Italia (stylized in lowercase) are a British indie rock band formed in London in 2019. The band consists of members Nina Cristante (vocals), Sam Fenton (vocals, guitar), and Jezmi Tarik Fehmi (vocals, guitar). Their name is derived from the Soho café Bar Italia. Biography The Italian-born Cristante grew up in Rome but moved to London in 2007. Fenton and Fehmi lived in a flat below Cristante in Peckham, where they met. In 2019, they began making music together. The band's sound is often associated with indie sleaze, shoegaze, and lo-fi pop influences. From 2020 onwards, the band released four albums, three EPs and multiple singles through World Music, the record label founded by London musicians Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland. They were noted as a "new act to watch" by '' The Face'' magazine and the number one "rising star to look out for in 2023" by ''The Times''. Their 2022 EP ''CDR'' was placed at number one on '' Gorilla vs. Bear''s list of the best EPs of 2022, and their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Wilson (musician)
Gary Wilson (born October 23, 1953) is an American experimental musician and performance artist best known for his 1977 album '' You Think You Really Know Me''. After, he released 4 more recordings: “Midnight Hour/When I Spoke Of Love” (1978), “Forgotten Lovers EP” (1979), “Invasion Of Privacy” (1980), and “This Is Why I Wear My Wedding Gown” (1983). Shortly after, he promptly retired from recording and kept performing until 1983. He slowly gained a strong cult following during the 1980s and 1990s, and in the early 2000s became active again. As of 2024, he has released sixteen full-length albums. Biography Early life Born on the north side of Endicott, New York, Wilson was one of four siblings, the others being Larry, David and Patti. The children kept several ducks as pets. His father worked for IBM during the day, and by night played stand-up bass in a lounge band whose act played the same hotel approximately four nights a week for 25 years. Wilson was a self- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Caramanica
Jon Caramanica (born 1975) is an American journalist and pop music critic who writes for ''The New York Times''. He is also known for writing about hip hop music. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, Caramanica received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1997, after which he attended Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published articles in ''Rolling Stone'' and '' Spin'', before becoming a senior contributing writer for '' XXL''. In 2006, he left ''XXL'' to become the music editor for '' Vibe'', a position he held until leaving the magazine in 2008. He began working for ''The New York Times'' in 2010, after previously having freelanced for the paper. He also hosts the music podcast ''Popcast''. In 2020, he announced he is writing a book about Kanye West Ye ( ; born Kanye Omari West ; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer and record producer. One of the most prominent figures in hip-hop, he is known for his varying musical style and polarizing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Indiana
Gary Hoisington (July 16, 1950 – October 23, 2024), known as Gary Indiana, was an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. He served as the art critic for the ''Village Voice'' weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988. Indiana is best known for his classic American true-crime trilogy, ''Resentment, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story,'' and ''Depraved Indifference'', chronicling the less permanent state of " depraved indifference" that characterized American life at the millennium's end. In the introduction to the recently re-published edition of ''Three Month Fever'', critic Christopher Glazek has coined the phrase 'deflationary realism' to describe Indiana's writing, in contrast to the magical realism or hysterical realism of other contemporary writing. Background Gary Hoisington was born in Derry, New Hampshire, on July 16, 1950. After a childhood rife with bullying and mistreatment, he left home when he was 16. He enrolled at the University of California, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliana Huxtable
Juliana Huxtable (born December 29, 1987) is an American artist, writer, performer, DJ, and co-founder of the New York–based nightlife project Shock Value. Huxtable has exhibited and performed at a number of venues including Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Project Native Informant, Artists Space, the New Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and Institute of Contemporary Arts. Huxtable's multidisciplinary art practice explores a number of projects, such as the internet, the body, history, and text, often through a process she calls "conditioning." Huxtable is a published author of two books and a member of the New York City–based collective House of Ladosha. She is on the roster of the talent agency Discwoman, a New York based collective and talent agency that books DJs for parties and events around the world. She previously lived and worked in New York City, and has been based in Berlin since 2020. Early life and education Huxtable was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
