Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone, examines the artistic legacy of Waymon/Simone while dutifully dissecting her formidable mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder, shizophrenia, multiple personality disorder, late-in-life alcoholism, and the uniform rage cited by all in her satellite as overwhelming.

Little White Lies is a high-concept magazine whose focus is film in a broad sense, approaching their favorite subject through the lens of their other favorite subjects: any and all art. In this spirit they launched the “Creative Brief” series, the most recent of which asked people to winnow down their favorite movie into a six-panel comic.

Fall Out Boy are making more moves in their quest for cultural dominance, and have started a comic book line. Designed in conjunction wtih designer Dr. Romanelli and Jeff Krelitz, Fall Out Toy Works follows Wentz’ lyrics from “Tiffany Blews” and pictures a toymaker and his female droid. It seems like a good fit considering [...]

It all started with a folding bicycle.

Former Talking heads frontman/musical savant David Byrne has been a long-time environmentalist, utilizing a trusty folding bike as his main means of getting around New York City.

Hints as disparate as music and fashion have told us the classics will always endure. Music has dropped them in the form of Vampire Weekend, Chester French and Mayer Hawthorne, looking almost like drop-outs if not for the constant barrage of nostalgia and reinterpretation.

Let’s face it – skateboards were made to be broken: it’s built in that, on some level, they’re disposable – ready to be smashed coming down hard on a rail or crashing to earth after a trick. But the graphics, design, and memories that they hold often prove unbreakable. That’s why the title of Sean Cliver’s new book, The Disposable Skateboard Bible, proves so ironic.

If you’re anywhere near your computer/radio today at 11am US ET, you can hear acclaimed author Joseph O’Neil talk on NPR about his globally celebrated novel ‘Netherland’. Better yet,for your summer read pick up a copy of this fascinating tale of cricket (in Staten Island of all places) spun together with the dark days of 9/11 in New York.

Haruki Murakami writes – fantastically well as evidenced in ‘The Wind Up Bird Chronicle’, ‘Kafka on the Shore’, ‘Norwegian Wood’, ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’ and countless terrific other novels. He also runs, yeah more surprisingly like as in marathons as evidenced in his latest book ‘What I Talk About When I Talk About Running’. Happily [...]

New York Noise out on Soul Jazz features exclusive and stunning iconic photographs of the New York music and art scene by Paula Court during the 1980s alongside text from some of the most important musicians and artists of the period, including everyone from Andy Warhol, Africa Bambaataa, Martin Rev, Richard Hell, Lou Reed, Keith [...]

Numoonfest03 isn’t just about the party. During the three days of the festival, visitors are invited to attend some mind blowing lectures. Legendary composer / trumpeter Jon Hassell shares his unusual view on music – on which he elaborates in his forthcoming book The North and South of You – with the crowd on Saturday [...]