Don’t get us wrong, we have a deep appreciation for comics. We think it’s amazing that the medium lets great writers and artists put together innovative ideas, but it makes us sad when when such a great opportunity gets mixed up with ideas that should never be. Ideas like the forthcoming biographical comic about Twilight author, Stephanie Meyer. We can think of absolutely no reason that such a thing should exist in the first place, but even worse is the fact that it’s far from being alone in the terrible-concept category of comics. Read More »
It looks like Little Red will be coming to the big screen in a dark way, according to Variety’s report that Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appain Way will partner with Orphan screenwriter David Leslie Johnson for a “Gothic reimagining” of the classic fairy tale. We wonder if they’ll be using our horror-fashion tips.
Though there’s no word yet on exactly how dark this new take will go, given that Johnson’s sole writing credit is a horror flick, we feel pretty safe in saying this won’t be one for the kiddies. Read More »
We’ve always been big readers here at Flavorpill, but with the eBook craze flying around, we may have neglected our ink-and-paper pals down at the local library as of late. But they’re not about to take that lying down. Library news has been all over the interwebs recently, and as a pledge of our loyalty, we bring you the latest from the world of overdue books. Read More »
If you’re in New York: Head to Under St. Marks to catch a showing of Under the Rainbow from the Real HBO Summer Film Series tonight at 7 p.m. It’s a great, early ’80s farce starring Chevy Chase and Carrie Fisher.
If you’re in Los Angeles: It could be your last chance to hear the blues-infused beauty of Gomez for a while (they have an opening slot on Pearl Jam’s upcoming European tour). Hit The Wiltern tonight at 8 p.m. to soak up all the indie rock you can.
If you’re in San Francisco: How can you not go see Jim Henson’s (alleged) favorite project, The Great Muppet Caper, playing tonight at Red Vic? Muppets+jewel heist+frame job+breaking the fourth wall = unadulterated awesome.
If you’re in Chicago: Listen to some amazing audio documentaries — think This American Life-like radio stories melded with music and found sound as the Third Coast International Audio Festival sets up another edition of Edible Audible Picnic on the Great Lawn of Millenium Park.
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That waterfall of ticker tape is actually a live feed printout of Twitter and Facebook status updates; the thermal printers are part of Christopher Baker’s art installation, in collaboration with Márton András Juhász and the Kitchen Budapest, entitled Murmur Study. The project searches these sites for variations of “common emotional utterances” like argh, meh and oooo and collects them into piles, highlighting the way that all of our “personal” updates are archived by corporations without us really paying any attention to it.
You can check out the installation at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis now through August 23. Note: All of the paper is collected for future projects or recycled. [via PSFK]
For anyone who has ever had to take a family picture in matching outfits, here’s a book for you: The New York Observerreported last week that AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com, which was launched in May by Doug Chernack and screenwriter Mike Bender, has been picked up by Three Rivers Press. While there’s no word yet on exactly what next May’s book will entail (we really hope there are some of the site’s Awkward Family Stories in there), we would like to suggest a few images that we hope make the cut — trust us, we’ve never appreciated our family more. Read More »
Barnes and Noble is getting into the game with free WiFi in their stores creating what they are calling “the world’s largest e-bookstore.” The software will be available for free on the iPhone, iPod touch, smart phones, computers and the Plastic Logic E-Reader, which is expected to come out later this year. Read More »
Despite a relatively good US run, things have turned out a bit odd for the kids flick Monsters vs Aliens. To begin with, the Dreamworks film didn’t play so well overseas, bringing in just $177.1M in foreign markets, as opposed to the studio’s Madagascar which pulled in $339.1M overseas. Equally odd is the decision to release the film on DVD on the rather inauspicious September 29, well ahead of the Christmas-time boom. Read More »
Wouldn’t you know it: On the day we post an interview with Lizzie Skurnick about her about her favorite YA reads, over on Twitter they have a hashtag game brewing called Failed Children’s Book Titles (#failedchildrensbooktitles). Take a look at a few of out favorites (of the ones that were safe to reprint) below, and then give us your ideas for the best children’s-book-title-that-wasn’t in the comments. Or even better, send us a tweet @flavorpill. Read More »
Despite the fact that the seven book series ended over two years ago and the latest film took a 60 percent tumble at the box office last weekend, it looks like Harry Potter’s grip on the muggle world may not be over yet. Quidditch, yes quidditch, is sweeping the nation’s colleges (broom pun intended) with over 200 schools interested in the sport, and 150 — from Princeton to LSU — already participating in the International Quidditch Association. Read More »
