Artist SWOON uses recycled parts to create whimsicle floating empires

Like something out of Beast of the Southern Wild, Caledonia Dance Curry a.k.a SWOON, took bits and pieces of stuff found along  American rivers and attached them to her Terry Gilliam style flotillas. What you have left are river-worthy empires that would make Fred Sanford shed a tear. You hear that Elizabeth? This is the

Short documentary “That B.E.A.T” let’s us in on New Orleans “Bounce” music

I love love love me some bounce music. I thank the queen diva “Big Freddia” for bustin my cherry, back in 2011 with her hit track “Yall Get Back Now“, since that, I’ve been groovin to the likes of Nicky Da B and Katy Red (who some say started this whole Bounce thing). So it

Writer/director Andrew Dominik hopes to be Killing Them Softly

Andrew Dominik‘s film adaptation of “Cogan’s Trade” is set in the waning days of the George W. Bush administration, against the Hurricane Katrina ravaged back streets of Louisiana. The opening title sequence is a series of seemingly random, jarring images and sounds reminiscent of films from the 70s. It’s two parts brilliant, one part WTF