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(Photo: Balming Tiger) K-pop is often associated with the spectacle of dazzling costumes, intricate dancing and catchy fast-paced music. Everything is highly planned, choreographed and rehearsed to perfection. However, Balming Tiger is unlike the bands we often associate the genre with. Rather, their shows are more akin to something you’d see at an underground punk or hip hop concert. And it’s exactly why they’ve become known as disrupters in the K-music scene today.

saw it at nyu, as a cinema grad student. chantal akerman attended. she was in town fir the premiere of her commercial flop tgat starred wm hurt and j binoche, a couch in ny. the other grad students loved it. i hated it. compression is one of the hallmarks of movie story-telling, and the movie chosr not to ude it, instead making us suffer the tedium and boredom of the main chatacter.

Originally, I planned to title this series Song of the Day. When I realized how overwhelming that would be, I switched to Song of the Week. Had I kept that approach, we would have landed at Songs Twice A Week, which would have been charmingly clumsy. Then, thanks in large part to Freda Payne, I stumbled onto Slayed by Voices. Because that’s really what … ncG1vNJzZmirnJbGprDBsq2ooZOawG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2iakaOxbrvFZp6opJQ%3D

One of my favorite things to do when I travel is visit local food markets and supermarkets. Naturally, then, when I was in Southeast Asia last year, I made it a point to go to as many markets as I could. While Phong Dien was my favorite floating market, my favorite market, period, was Trok Mor morning market in Bangkok’s old town, known as Rattanakosin. Of all the markets I visited, this one was the least touristy and most full of locals, which no doubt contributed to how I feel about it.

This is a story about a broken partnership, a really big debt, and a legal fight that brought a once-thriving public affairs firm near the brink of collapse.  On Monday, Strategies 360, which is one of the largest public affairs and communications firms in the West, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. S360, as it’s called, was founded by veteran … ncG1vNJzZmivkai1qrrGraanp5KosrPCxKtlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8o63NpKmuqKSYxm6u0aKlpKudlru0tMipZJqsXajBs63Tnp6inaM%3D

Many of you were introduced to Barbara Fields in connection to Ken Burns’s Civil War documentary, which originally aired on PBS documentary in 1990. A few years ago I read her book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, which she co-authored with her sister, Karen E. Fields. It’s a challenging read that offers an entirely new way to think about the history of race in America and the language we use to describe it.

View most updated version of this post on SubstackSearch our full archivesShare Barbara McNair was a singer and actor with a beautiful voice who toured with Nat King Cole in the late 1950s, signed with Motown in the mid-sixties, and became one of the first Black women to host her own television variety show from 1969-71. Barbara Jean McNair was born and raised in Chicago. She first sang at church services and in school plays.

It cannot have escaped your notice that there are a lot of people milling around in groups all wearing pink at the moment. Or perhaps it has and you’re blissfully unaware of the Barbie mania that has taken over the western world. Either way, it has happened and last Friday on opening night I was one of those very people who dressed up to go to the cinem… ncG1vNJzZmirpJ65rb%2FTmqWdoZ6ce7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZpuZope2pnnToZxmpZ%2BowW6ywKamrqtdmbytuIyipWasmJo%3D

Mic. Drop. I have not seen either, but I will admit that, prior to reading this comparison, I’d have chosen Oppenheimer over Barbie, had they been my only two choices. And that’s saying something because I ***love*** Ryan Gosling. No. LOVE. Moving forward, I’ll be watching movies through the Bechtel lens out of sheer curiosity. Thanks for that, Celeste. Geez. So much for mindless entertainment. (Kidding, of course. You’re brilliant!) I would be interested to know how my favorite movies do when scored by the Bechtel test…hmmm…do I wanna go down that rabbit hole?