Email Author Angela Ashman

2013 Stories by Angela Ashman

• GEEK OUT

  published January 30, 2013

  What? You’ve never heard of the Society for the Advancement of Social Studies? Get acquainted with this bookish, history-loving crew tonight... More >>

• Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom

  published January 30, 2013

  It was just last February when the Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot performed their "Punk Prayer" at a Moscow cathedral asking for the... More >>

• WILD THING

  published January 30, 2013

  Comedian T.J. Miller may be best known 
as the one behind the video camera in J.J. Abrams’s Cloverfield, but, with any luck, you may... More >>

• MIGHTY WORDS

  published January 30, 2013

  On February 27, 1860, an unannounced candidate for president was invited to speak at Cooper Union by the Young Men’s Republican Union. His... More >>

• ALMA MATER

  published January 30, 2013

  Everyone has at least a few (or a few dozen) big regrets from their college days. Diving headfirst into the shame, Paul Downs Colaizzo’s... More >>

• FOOT FETISH

  published January 30, 2013

  When even your aunt in the country knows who Manolo Blahnik is (thanks to Sex and the City), you know that designer shoes have become a big deal.... More >>

• SOUNDCHECK

  published January 23, 2013

  Eccentric frontman Ian Svenonius of bands such as The Make-Up and the Nation of Ulysses certainly knows a thing or two about surviving in rock. So... More >>

• EXOTIC CITY

  published January 23, 2013

  Bidoun, the award-winning quarterly print magazine about art and culture from the Middle East, is the kind of beautifully designed journal you... More >>

• OLD JOY

  published January 23, 2013

  The story of Joy Division and its tragic frontman Ian Curtis is, of course, one of the sadder tales in rock. The group released only one album,... More >>

• BAD GIRLS

  published January 23, 2013

  You won’t find any coy young things in Katrina del Mar’s new show Girls Girls Girls. The photographer and filmmaker, who has been... More >>

• COMIC BONDING

  published January 16, 2013

  You’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s Todd Barry’s job to provide all the jokes for tonight’s two shows, considering... More >>

• PSYCHO CHIC

  published January 16, 2013

  When the experimental-minded Bushwick Starr won an Obie last year, the judges said, “Sometimes a space is just a space, but sometimes the... More >>

• BOOGIE NIGHTS

  published January 16, 2013

  The space the Roxy disco and roller rink once called home has now been transformed into a far more upper-crust establishment: a 24,700-square-foot... More >>

• VINTAGE VHS

  published January 9, 2013

  Delayed due to Hurricane Sandy, comedian Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett’s Found Footage Festival is finally back with a new lineup of bizarre... More >>

• INDECENT EXPOSURE

  published January 9, 2013

  You know that nightmare in which you head outside for a pleasant day only to realize you forgot to put pants on? Today, that scary dream becomes a... More >>

• SAVE WFMU

  published January 9, 2013

  As you might have heard, WFMU has been struggling ever since Hurricane Sandy forced the radio station to cancel its annual fundraising record fair... More >>

• BACK TO SCHOOL

  published January 9, 2013

  Whether or not you’re a movie buff, the Modern School of Film is one everyone will want to enroll in this year. Coming to the IFC Center,... More >>