The Pass It On Project is a documentary film by Melissa Nicolardi and Kalim Armstrong about education, race, and the relevance of the Civil Rights movement in America today. A three-year labor of love, it is finally being screened this weekend through Filmwax. There will also be a Q&A with the featured students, teachers, and filmmakers. [...]
Author Archives: Stephanie Tran
Music and Murals
December 21, 2011 – 10:54 am
Jess Rotter is an illustrator who lives in Brooklyn. Not only does she run a successful t-shirt line, producing shirts with her own illustrations based on vintage record covers, but she is also the head of publicity at the music label Mexican Summer. Through her job, she travels to shows and music festivals around the [...]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
June 30, 2011 – 11:08 am
Last week I found myself celebrating the Swedish Midsummer with friends in The Yard at Soho Grand, where Kanon Organic Vodka hosted a party. Though the idea of Midsummer always sounded so romantic to me – think wildflower wreathes, folk costumes, eating, drinking, and dancing in high heat- I never knew what a big deal [...]
Converse Summer Kick-Off
May 26, 2011 – 12:44 pm
A few weeks ago, I was in Portland. Upon my return to New York, the rainy weather left me feeling like I never left the Pacific Northwest – and I don’t mean that in a good way. Luckily, the rain forecast for this Tuesday never happened, and the sun came out just in time for Converse’s Summer Kick-Off [...]
PJ Harvey at Terminal 5
April 20, 2011 – 2:08 pm
PJ Harvey performed at Terminal 5 in New York last night. I really dislike that venue so much I’ve pretty much stopped seeing shows there, but my friend Bill convinced me to go by reminding me how special her new album, Let England Shake, is. It was kind of a no-brainer after that, and I’m so [...]
PANic at the Hotels
February 16, 2011 – 9:55 pm
Our friend, Anh Do, the musician, gallery curator, DJ, and blogger, recently started PANic along with her friends, Niki Roberton and Paul Tao, of Iamsound. Pooling from their collective resources, PANic is a full-service production and promotions agency that specializes in art, fashion, and music programming, not to mention brand and band management. One of [...]
Letters to Emma Bowlcut
January 30, 2011 – 1:17 pm
Thursday night at Spoonbill & Sugartown in Brooklyn, musician Bill Callahan (of Smog) gave a reading from his book, Letters to Emma Bowlcut. The epistolary novel chronicles one man’s correspondence with a woman he met at a party. Though they both exchange letters, we only get to read his point of view and responses to [...]
Nike Training Club
January 24, 2011 – 11:25 pm
Most of my friends know me as a crazy person who loves to work out. My personal motto is “Pay to Play” and because I love to eat and drink, I take it very seriously. I can be very excessive with those hobbies, so if I’m going to enjoy good food and lots of drinks, [...]
