what's with all the culture links?
WORDS:
Joy Press connects Hillary Clinton to Courtney Love in The Voice. (Same issue: Why Hillary Enrages Feminists.)
Slate.com has a risqué slideshow documenting how the lap-dance ruined the strip-tease, based upon the book Lapdancer. (I hope Slate isn't becoming Salon.)
City Pages' Summer Reading Supplement is out.
The Guardian profiles the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who is new to me but sounds provocative.
TV:
Amusing: a collection of MP3s of every song ever played on The Gilmore Girls. Actually, not a bad set.
Both Terry Gross and The Onion A.V. Club have interviewed Colin Quinn this week for his new show, Tough Crowd on Comedy Central. He's good; too bad the show sucks. Get some decent guests, Colin.
FILM:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy being made into a movie.
Trailer to yet another edgy, punky English Australian film: Garage Days.
MUSIC:
Bjork has a new haircut.
All the members of Duran Duran are reuniting for a tour.
The Rapture signed to a major label.
LOCAL:
This week, Dara approaches local cuisine from the angle of the businessman versus the chef. If I'm not mistaken, it's a small meta-critique to the Strib recently focussing on the culinary big picture (I'm thinking of that "two-star city" criticism from a few weeks ago).
LIVING:
Tokyo surpasses Hong Kong as most expensive city to live. Top 10:
- Tokyo
- Moscow
- Osaka
- Hong Kong
- Beijing
- Geneva
- London
- Seoul
- Zurich
- NYC
