“You don’t owe nothing to dead people”

Cormac McCarthy, one of the most revered contemporary American fiction writers, won acclaim in literary circles with books like Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses and especially his latest work The Road for which he was awarded with the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. However, one might safely state that [...]

Food Inc. is a movie you don’t want to see. See it anyway. I didn’t want to see it either. I’ve seen a lot of movies like it, and they don’t make me happy. They make me angry. But I keep seeing them, because I want to know what they have to tell me, and [...]

Frenzied like a explosive firecracker crackling inside a small birdcage, yearning to break free - A Fine Frenzy’s sophomore album, Bomb in a Birdcage is a delight. Spending two years on the road, Alison Sudol’s voice is now controlled and honed, and the music and instrumentation is more expansive yet tight. One of the best [...]

Craig Kosak is a Seattle based artist who has been in the artistic profession for the past 35 years. Craig studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California for a year in the late 70s and has taken many classes and workshops at other institutions in the years since then – most [...]

Let me say it right away – if a new kid on the block such as Greasepaint could do justice to a play as rich as Chapter Two on their very first attempt, I am positive that we can expect some good entertainment coming our way from the talented bunch. The rib-tickling yet thought provoking [...]

Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but The Original of Laura survived and now, 32 years later, the unfinished novel is about to be published for the first time, AFP reported. Despite Nabokov’s dying wish, publication of the manuscript, which was compiled on index cards, is set for November 17 in New York [...]

Gwyneth Paltrow has signed on to The Danish Girl, a film chronicling the real-life story of the world’s first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener, CBC news reported. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, pictured here in February in New York City, will portray a painter who asks her husband to pose as a woman, starting his journey to becoming [...]

Terrence Malick’s The New World is, essentially, a story of wonder. The opening moments play almost like a climax as the Native Americans nervously and excitedly watch the English ships pulling into the shore, and the English lay eyes for the first time on what will eventually become the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia. The film [...]

Katyayini Presents in association with SLAP on Greasepaint and Culturazzi:
Neil Simon’s - Chapter Two (a play in two acts) -Directed by Vishal Verma
The Synopsis
Act One: The Jigsaw
Act Two: Falling into Place
Chapter Two, can be regarded as one of Neil Simon’s greatest triumphs. The American playwright known the world over for his rib tickling comedies, dared [...]

If there’s one thing Christians, Muslims, and orthodox Jews agree on, it’s that gays aren’t welcome. Of course, each group believes the other two are eternally rejected by God too, so what are you gonna do?
Director Malcolm Ingram’s compassionate 2006 documentary Small Town Gay Bar isn’t about religion, per se, but it takes place in [...]