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While DC has seen a lot of hype for the Corcoran’s retrospective Pump Me Up: DC Subculture of the 80s, The Fridge is set to show people a snapshot of what the graffiti world is bringing at this very moment. Curators CHE and ULTRA, both members of the history-making DC-based (continued…)
The year was 1967 and all the girls were running around sunny San Francisco with flowers in their hair. Right? No. Anyone who’s ever spent a summer in San Francisco knows that gauzy boho nothings are a quick trip to frostbite. And those who took part in the “Summer of (continued…)
Before there was… there was Nico. There is only Nico, the model, musician, poet, and artist who bolted on her contract to be the face of Chanel at the age of 17 and never looked back. Nico is the beautiful, tragic finale to our two-part series (Part 1, Edie Sedgwick) (continued…)
This August, The Fridge DC is welcoming six arts collectives rotating in and out of their 1000 square foot space, bringing theatre, dance, graffiti, sculpture, slam poetry and more for its second annual FRESH PRODUCE. This Friday, opening 7 – 11pm, The Fridge is showing STREET MARKET, an exhibit taking (continued…)
There was a lot of chatter when Paris Hilton broke on the scene, the pretty, vapid socialite, who was famous for being famous. Her popularity left the door open for the likes of Perez Hilton and, broadly, a new pop culture, celebrity-obsessed phenomenon. But 40 years before, father of pop-art (continued…)
By the time he was 20, Woody Allen was earning $1500 a week as a writer for nighttime TV – in 1955. By the time he was 30, he wrote his first Broadway play, “Don’t Drink the Water,” which ran for 598 performances. Over the course of his career, he (continued…)
The summer is all about where to choose to spend it, be it a roof deck bar, your BFF’s front porch, or, for the more glamorous among us, an international destination (not excluding the Sean – Puffy Daddy/P Diddy – Combs White Party). The summertime is and always will be (continued…)
Cleopatra is almost always remembered for her beauty. But we’d like to delve into her other, far more interesting side: her keen prowess as a businesswoman. Long before a “personal brand” was part of our lexicon, Cleopatra so successfully positioned herself as a powerful ruler that we remember her long (continued…)
When Carmen Miranda donned her famous fruit bowl hat in the 1943 film “The Gang’s All Here“ (possibly forgettable for everything besides her and the hat), she created a cultural moment that still reverberates – for better or worse – in film, fashion, art and pop culture today. She was (continued…)
Fritz Lang’s pivotal film “Metropolis ” was first screened to audiences in 1927. The art deco-inspired German expressionist film was praised for technological advances and criticized for its simplistic storyline – scientist Rotwang kidnaps activist Maria to use her likeness as a tool to create a robot that will resurrect (continued…)
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