Email Author Araceli Cruz

2013 Stories by Araceli Cruz

• Q&A: Mario Alberto Zambrano on Taking the Leap From Dancer to Novelist With Lotería

  published September 25, 2013

  The game Lotería can best be described as a Mexican version of bingo, but instead of numbers, each card bears a striking image, such as... More >>

• AN EXPLOSION 
OF SOUND

  published September 18, 2013

  What do you do when you’ve created one of the most incredible Latin dance parties in New York City? You create another one. That’s... More >>

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  Mademoiselle C Looks at Life, Post-Vogue

  published September 11, 2013

  "Must like fashion," or at least, "must like music videos about fashion" could be the tagline to Mademoiselle C, a documentary about... More >>

• LAST DAY OF SUMMER

  published August 28, 2013

  Today is officially the end of frolicking in summer sun. But before you put your swimsuit away, take one last dip at Pier 
2’s Pop-Up... More >>

• ON THE L.E.S. STREETS

  published August 28, 2013

  Back in 2005, Stefani Germanotta, a singer-songwriter living on the Lower East Side with an all-expenses-paid apartment (thanks to her dad), was... More >>

• SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS

  published August 21, 2013

  Never have two more effed-up people been more right for each other than Scottie Ferguson and Madeleine Elster in Alfred Hitchcock’s dizzying... More >>

• HANGING BY A THREAD

  published August 21, 2013

  New Jersey–born artist Erika Vogt has created a minefield inside the New Museum’s lobby gallery, except here the hazards are floating... More >>

• LUSTY LADIES

  published August 14, 2013

  On Bob Dylan’s 1976 Desire album cover, we see him decked out in a fedora, fur-collared coat, and scarf tie, gazing off into the... More >>

• CALIFORNIA DREAMING

  published August 7, 2013

  In James Franco’s new book, A California Childhood, we see him not as the weed-loving A-lister and renaissance man he is today, but rather... More >>

• I WANT MY KENNEDY

  published August 7, 2013

  When Lisa Kennedy Montgomery was 18 years old, her parents gave her an ultimatum: Either stay home and pay rent or they would pay her to move out.... More >>

• TOUCH ME, I’M FAMOUS

  published July 31, 2013

  After years of taking pictures of celebrities such as Karen O. and Iggy Pop for publications including Rolling Stone, Vice, and... More >>

• CHAOS IN THE STREETS

  published July 24, 2013

  With every condo that goes up in Williamsburg, it’s nice to know there’s a less-developed Brooklyn neighborhood that still stands for... More >>

• HEARTBREAK

  published July 24, 2013

  After five beautiful seasons of insane methamphetamine production, brutal killings, massive explosions, and twisted lies, Breaking Bad is finally... More >>

• OLD MAN COMPLEX

  published July 17, 2013

  Danny Tanner is one of the most beloved sitcom dads of all time, thanks in part to the clean-cut actor playing the single father of three on... More >>

• SAVE US, FERRIS!

  published July 10, 2013

  In 1986, our incomparable mentor John Hughes introduced us to a new witty hero: Ferris Bueller, a Chicago teen who ditches school in the most... More >>

• LIVIN' LA VIDA 
CRAY-CRAY

  published July 10, 2013

  Each year we attend the Latin Alternative Music Conference with one major goal in mind: to discover as much new music as possible. This year, a... More >>

• ELECTRIC AVENUE

  published July 3, 2013

  The synthesizer has come a long way since Gary Numan pumped out his 1979 hit “Cars.” At today’s Control Voltage Block Party,... More >>

• CONRAD THE CUTTER

  published July 3, 2013

  Conrad Carlson is one of those dudes you want to hang out with every day. If he isn’t throwing wild parties in abandoned warehouses as DJ... More >>

• LIFE IN HIGH-DEF

  published July 3, 2013

  United by their contempt for the "star-making machinery of the art market," the Bruce High Quality Foundation, an anonymous group of mostly Cooper... More >>

• ON THE WATERFRONT

  published June 26, 2013

  Sure, we love indulging in ’80s films in the park during summertime, but we don’t mind that alt-movie house Film Forum is giving... More >>

• JUST LIKE HONEY

  published June 19, 2013

  If you haven’t already been spicing up your drinks with Morris Kitchen’s delectable syrups, tonight’s your chance to see what... More >>

• SOCAL PIONEERS

  published June 19, 2013

  Whether it’s the Getty, MOCA, LACMA, or a slew of galleries, Los Angeles isn’t short of art spaces. But in the 1950s, places to view... More >>

• URBAN LEGENDS

  published June 12, 2013

  The 2011 debut of the L.E.S. Film Festival was a bit low-key, but it ended massively with a screening of the thrilling, buzzed-about documentary... More >>

• STRIKE A POSE

  published June 5, 2013

  Jump on the Bloomberg health-nut bandwagon and get in shape for the summer when the Wanderlust Festival, happening across the country this summer,... More >>

• JAY-P

  published May 29, 2013

  For most rookie Saturday Night Live cast members it takes a couple of seasons to warm up and build three-dimensional characters. But for Jay... More >>