The Bloggomist: Why I Love DC
Political Opinion

During one of DC’s biggest snowstorms, an event that was meant for fun could have harmed innocent citizens as a careless off-duty detective decided to take measures into his own hands. Was it worth his career?

As many as five million travelers were affected by this past weekend’s snow storm in the Northeast region. Many residents in Washington, DC experienced cabin fever from being snowed in at home. On Friday evening, a group emerged on the Internet with a proposal to rally DC residents to gather for an impromptu snowball fight. →

TimesTalks 2010
The TimesCenter – NYC
1/7 – 1/10/09

The 2010 New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend will take place January 7 to 10.  The Times’s signature event is a four-day celebration of the arts featuring TimesTalks interviews between New York Times journalists and celebrated guests from film, media, music, television and theater.

This year’s guests include: the star of the new film “Crazy Heart,” Jeff Bridges interviewed by Lynn Hirschberg; the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash →

With such a successful and sold-out first Annual Hip Hop Karaoke Championship at Highline Ballroom, Hip Hop Karaoke is back to bring you more this year. New York’s most popular hip-hop event presents the 2010 Hip Hop Karaoke Championship at New York’s Irving Plaza on January 29th. The event will feature the top 12 contestants of Hip Hop Karaoke, battling it out for crash prizes in front of celebrity judges who are soon to be announced. →

Lookin’ for the place to do it big this New Year’s Eve? Come to the Viceroy and party with King Britt, Jason Bentley, and Raul Campos. There will be premium open bar and food all-night. If New Year’s Eve isn’t enough for you, make sure you also come check out the second annual New Year’s day party aka The New-Over. Last year’s party was quite the event and you can count on this year’s party will be just as wild. →

Allison Schulnik had her first solo show at Mark Moore Gallery in 2007, which was a huge success. She has established a global reputation and has already made her mark amongst the critical and popular, with one-person exhibitions in London, Rome and New York City as well as her taking part in over twenty international group shows. With ten new paintings and her →

The  brooding Southend Scene, alternative rockers These New Puritans are the archetype for cool. They received acclamation into the elite fashion and art  community, having their music featured in runway shows and dance performances. Experimental and expansive, TNPS’s intentional placement of discordant sounds almost defies the meaning behind their name-”Puritans.” They amalgamate orchestral ensembles, obscure instruments and recording techniques to capture an everlasting musical experience. →

An excerpt from Shana’s “Whispering Pines!”

The Cinefamily Presents Shana Moulton
Cinefamily Theater – Los Angeles, CA
01/21/09

Rising art star Shana Moulton comes to the Cinefamily for an evening of her uninhibited, life-affirming and psychoactive video works, including the highly confessional “Whispering Pines” series. As her alter ego “Cynthia”, Moulton plays a sad, mute young woman whose ongoing attempts at blissful enlightenment through a variety of New Age tokens and techniques (reflexology, sound medicine, self-help tomes and plug-in waterfalls) is matched by the heavy, neon-colored saturation of her banal domestic surroundings (exercise videos, reclining chairs, Bioré nose strips and Crystal Light drink.) →

The Bloggomist: My Celluloid Fix
Love and Death (1975)

‘Tis the season for mass consumption and Hallmark-packaged nostalgia.  On this most celebrated of holidays, family members reunite after long stretches of silence and revel in merrymaking.  For some, Christmas poses a genuine test of true compassion or complete intolerance (depending on how dysfunctional their family has been the other 364 days.) For me, however, the colder holidays mean languorous days of feel-good movies, because gosh darn it, we deserve a bit of self-indulgence. →

Inspired by the Minutemen song, Evil Monito’s “Tour Spiel” highlights the musician’s life on the road. Each week, we’ll check in with some of our favorite artists touring stateside or abroad. We’ll provide an intimate look into what it’s like to be packed in a van or waiting for a flight with the same people for hours on end. It takes a certain state of mind to survive any lengthy tour. Yet it’s the memorable experiences that make life on the road ultimately rewarding, if not interesting. This week we interviewed Ben Jacobs of Max Tundra, who seems to have had a rough time on the road dodging fatigue and fast food-related ulcers. →

The Bloggomist: The Local Boy
Personal Musings

My window overlooks the east side of the city.  A layer of haze usually rests smugly atop the rooftops and just above that bright blue skies as far as the eye can see.  Sometimes I think smog and traffic are God’s way of leveling the playing field for other cities.  But today it’s clear in Los Angeles, the horizon washed clean by nearly a week of steady, much-needed rainfall.  Mornings like these are the most beautiful; they’re rare and special, here today gone tomorrow.  ”My friend texted me that Brittany Murphy is dead,” →