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Posted Apr. 17, 2008,
Robert Knoke Exhibit at Ruff Club: Leigh, Peaches and Allison, Oh My!
By Jordan Kinney
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If iconic nightlife persona portraiture strikes your fancy, be sure to check out German artist Robert Knoke's amazing work in his first ever New York installation at Ruff Club this Friday night. Building upon his work first shown at Berlin's Club Rio last year, his somber, black and white drawings feature an array of fashion stars, DJs, musicians and performers. The current series highlights some of New York's notable downtown personalities such as Terrence Koh, Marc Jacobs and the Misshapes. Knoke's work, mostly done with charcoal and black markers, is truly outstanding and is not to missed.
Friday, April 18th
Ruff Club, at the Annex
152 Orchard St.
www.myspace.com/robertknoke
www.ruffclub.com
Posted Jan. 29, 2008,
Peaches & Tone Loc: Just a Coupla "Wild Things"
By David Hershkovits
Don't you love a marriage made in heaven? That's what the press release calls the collaboration/remix of Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" by Peaches. I can't really argue with that.
The occasion for this unlikely pairing, captured here on video from a performance in Berlin, is the 20th anniversary of the release, which was, believe it or not, once the fastest selling single in music history. A full slate of Delicious Vinyl's classic records by Young MC, The Pharcyde, Masta Ace, The Brand New Heavies, Def Jef, Born Jamericans, and Fatlip re-imagined by Hot Chip, Spank Rock, Diplo, Bonde Do Role, A-Trak, Ed Banger's Mr. Flash & DJ Medhi is also in the works. Each release will be available on limited edition vinyl, launched with a special DV Twenty Years Fresh party in select cities worldwide. (Stay tuned for dates and locations to be announced soon.) The tracks will be part of a triple vinyl full-length album slated for release in 2008.
Posted May. 11, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: The New Scissor Sister, Less Oral Sex (or Should it Be Fewer?) and Virgin Airlines Takes out the Trash
By PAPERMAG Editors
Here's an Eight Items or Less from our special correspondent Gary Pini, who 944 magazine referred to as the "All knowing wise man of the wild world."
1. According to one of our readers "8 items or less" is grammatically incorrect. It should say: "or fewer.” That's right, but we aren't changing it. All those supermarkets can't be wrong.
2. This week's health tips: Drink more tea and have less oral sex. Apparently tea drinkers have a 20 to 30 percent lower risk of skin cancer and people who have more than five oral sex partners are 250 percent likely to have throat cancer.
3. A building so nice they're building it twice. Observant readers of skyscrapercity.com note the striking similarity ("rip-off") between a building proposed for downtown Miami by architect Chad Oppenheim and the already under construction headquarters of China Central Television by Rem Koolhaas.
4. Culture Check: customized Blackberry tag lines. Recently received emails that ended with: "Not sent via Blackberry because I don't have one" and "Sent via Blackberry because I have no life."
5. Not another one! If you thought Mika was just Scissor Sister 2.0 then here's number three: Calvin Harris. This one's from Scotland and is down with Kylie Minogue.
6. Virgin Airlines is collecting the garbage. Their new street-poster campaign here in New York City is a giant red bag stuck to construction site walls and they are filling up fast. Question: Who's going to empty them?
7. Canadian singer/songwriter (and former Peaches roommate) Leslie Feist has a hit album. After weeks of major buzz and Internet downloads, the singer 's new LP goes into the Billboard Top Albums chart at #16 (31,000 copies). While The Reminder has received almost universal critical acclaim, we were puzzled by yesterday's USA Today extreme slap-down that described the work as "elevator music for hipsters" and "radio resistant."
Posted May. 3, 2007,
Coachella Rocked My World: Part Two
By Shanon Kelley
Here are the rest of my fantasmical photos... Pictured here are Paris Hilton and CSS and Luiza Sa (of CSS) and Le Tigre's JD Samson.
Posted Apr. 18, 2007,
Peaches "Dumps" on Alanis Doing Fergie
By David Hershkovits
Perez Hilton is known as a scandalous Internet gossip monger, but I find that his musical tastes are pretty good, too. He was an early Amy Winehouse and Mika booster and he keeps a good eye out for cool new videos. All by way of thanking him for calling attention to this video ditty cooked up by Peaches in response to a recent Alanis Morisette video parody of Fergie's "My Humps." Of course, Peaches being Peaches takes it up a notch by titling her contribution to this growing cannon "My Dumps" -- as in poop. You know it.