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Culture Kaleidoscope

VOICE CHOICE

A Two-Fer From a Pulitzer Nominee Goes In and Out

Author Ed Park has a lot to talk about at upcoming local book events, including his offbeat take on the memoir and his update of a seminal dose of metafiction.

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FILM

Review: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Slashes a Genre With Wit and Mint Details

Jane Schoenbrun’s inspired new film gets meta about a Final Girl now too old for her franchise, even as she lives within it.

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NYC SITES

Ground Control: The Serendipitous Art of the Streets

It’s always a good time to take your eyes off the screen and really look where you're going.

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ART ARCHIVES

Finding Beauty Underfoot and On High

Pat Place and David Hepher hit the streets to find concrete beauty.

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FILM

Review: Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Lands Viewers in Cinema Purgatory

The auteur of the “Pusher” trilogy can no longer find his way through the dry-ice fog of his puerile obsessions.

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NYC SITES

Pay Phones Ring in a Row: A Warning from a Cyberpunk Pioneer

A tableau in today’s Penn Station harks back to the sci-fi classic “Neuromancer.”

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MUSIC

BLXST Puts in the Work on ‘Labor of Love’

“It’s about being optimistic through the things we may go through in a relationship, so we don’t let it all crash and burn.”

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FILM

John Waters: The Pope of Trash Confesses His Sins

The filmmaker revels in the absurd humor of a rough world.

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FILM

Review: ‘Rose of Nevada’ Time Travels Through the Desolation of Britain’s Working Class

Writer/director Mark Jenkin employs old-school techniques to capture the grit and brine of a magical voyage.

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VOICE CHOICE

Ferry Yourself to Governors Island for Cactus Rose NYC at Porch Stomp

Kandia Crazy Horse’s eclectic band will bring the country, folk, indigenous, urban, bluesy vibes to this summery idyll.

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