"What do you think makes a photograph great?" I asked Ryan Phillippe, a posed question by a journalist in the opening scene of The Bang Bang Club. Passion flickered in his eyes as he averted his gaze to the ground and took a few moments...

Broom of the System vs. Freedom

David Foster Wallace once said, "Fiction's about what it is to be a human being," a notion he followed so meticulously while accurately portraying the human condition, through endless...

I couldn't help but picture Nick and Nora, or Michael Cera and Kat Dennings in movie speak, while following the title character's cat and mouse chase depicted in Dash and Lily's Book of Dares, the third novel from writers Rachel Cohn and David Levitham, whose...

David Sedaris is currently on a worldwide tour promoting his latest venture, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, a collection of short fables personifying our favorite, and not so favorite, animals. Fans can only guess what sick and twisted words might come...

Dear Jimmy McMillan of the Rent is Too Damn High Party,

This isn't up for debate. You, my friend, my hero, stole my vote for Governor of New York. The rent is too damn high Mr. McMillan, and I praise you for realizing that. "Our children, the...

They sat on a cement slab by the river. In the distance was a steel bridge with cars going in both directions. There were no clouds and it was about seventy degrees. Sometimes it was a little windy....

John Brandon enters McNally Jackson Bookstore and Café a bit meek, a bit timid, perhaps a bit excited. "I just got off the plane an hour ago," claims the soft-spoken Southern gentleman. After first pulling out my chair, Brandon sits down...

Twenty-five years later people are still disappearing. People are still afraid to merge. Imperial Bedrooms -- Bret Easton Ellis's follow up to the book defining (dare I say) our generation, Less Than Zero -- was released last week. Ellis was in town...

Every time I walk past a mirror I glance down at my t-shirt and chuckle to myself. The tee gifted in a goodie bag at the premiere of the Duplass Brothers' first studio film, Cyrus, showcases the phrase coined by Jonah Hill's title character.

Keith Bearden, director of Meet Monica Velour, a quirky comedy that premiered this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, was looking for a fat kid when he found his lanky star, Dustin Ingram. In the title role Kim Cattrall plays an anti-Samantha character as an 80's soft core porn star...

After seven days of film, promotion and parties at the 8th annual Tribeca Film Festival, the winner for Best New York Narrative is announced. And the award goes to? Monogamy. A pseudo-documentary style fiction, written and directed by Academy Award nominated director Dana Adam Shapiro, was brilliantly filmed in less...

Here in New York, we all have voyeuristic tendencies, the greatest past time by far is people-watching, whether it be setting up shop in a coffee shop or glaring into the Standard Hotel from your office window. With so many people hustling by, you can seemingly go unnoticed. Brooklyn wedding...

Melissa Leo, an award winning actress who frequents films with relevant social issues, guides the cast of The Space Between through a heartbreaking tale of a Pakistani-American boy trying to reach his father, a World Trade Center worker, on September 11th. Throughout the cross-country struggle writer, director and producer Travis...

In having an all New York cast and essentially holding the homecoming for the film at the Tribeca Film Festival, Beware of Gonzo is as authentic as it gets. Writer and Director Bryan Goluboff (Basketball Diaries) puts his own spin on the teen-angst genre by bringing to life a tale...

On Wednesday at Urban Outfitters in Manhattan, Sarah Silverman braved the rain to greet fans and sign her memoir The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, released on Tuesday by Harper. The Bedwetter's opening chapter guides readers through Silverman's unfortunate years...