It’s not too early to start planning that trip to Ghent for the 10 days off electronic music festival. Now in it’s thirteenth year, 10 days off continues to provide a world class line-up of cutting edge DJ’s and beatmasters and has replaced Berlin’s Love Parade as […]

We’ve heard of tribute bands, Led Zepagain, Kissteria, etc. but tribute bars? or baars in this case. Depeche Mode Baar in Tallinn, Estonia gets right to the point, and if the name doesn’t tip you off (?) the photos of Dave Gahan in all his bare chested glory, massive ULTRA sign behind the bar and […]

Undemanding, downtempo lounge music, shiny mod furniture, designer cocktails - it was sure great fun while it lasted. But somehow the words “kiwi martini” and “insurgent uprisings” just didn’t seem to sit comfortably within the same zeitgeist. The time had surely come to give ourselves up to a more ominous reality, and we knew a […]

The downtown self-promotion machine extraordinaire/hugfest is back, and brings with it some sterling contributions from European filmmakers and actors. Yes The Tribeca Film Festival is once again descending on lower Manhattan and giving paparazzi and reporters opportunity to expense dinner at Nobu as they wait for Sean Penn.
The line up of films is as daunting […]

It was as if someone had carved the Marais District out of Paris, and dropped it in Southern Holland—then populated it with people who buy all of their clothes in Antwerp. (Or, for New Yorkers, imagine a half of the city being NoLita). We’d not borne witness to so many chic boutiques per square inch […]