DESIGN OBSERVER: We learn to live with the encroachment of branding into daily life; like the weather, we just accept it as part of everyday living. But the more we become inured to the bludgeoning intrusiveness of commercial lapel-grabbing, the more the brand owners — and the designers who work for them — ramp up their efforts to attract our attention.A world colonized by brands is the theme of a new film by French designers and filmmakers H5. Logorama is a slick 17-minute-long animated movie that appears to lampoon both the Hollywood blockbuster — violent, crude and adrenalized — and the world […]
HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: Beaten, Bullet-Riddled Corpses Of Couple Dug Up In Camden Backyard
INQUIRER: On a Sunday afternoon just over a week ago, Muriah Ashley Huff bumped into two friends on the platform of NJ Transit’s River Line station in Palmyra. Huff, 18, longed to get her driving permit, and was bound for Camden to see her boyfriend, Mike, recalled Nicole Bass and Vivian Richardson. That was the last the two saw of the bubbly cosmetology student. Four days later, on Thursday, Huff’s beaten and strangled body was found buried in the backyard of a South Camden home, said the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office. The body of Michael Hawkins, who was dating Huff, […]
NEVER LEAVE A MAN BEHIND: Thieves Steal $50,000 Worth Of Jewelry, Leave Behind 4-Year-Old Son
INQUIRER: John Benson and Sheakia Stubbs wanted to look like legitimate shoppers last weekend when they walked into a South Street jewelry store they planned to rob, police said. They decided the best way to complete the ruse was to bring along their 4-year-old son. But with $50,000 in stolen rings stuffed into a shopping bag, and the store owner and an employee giving chase, police said, the couple abandoned their child to make their escape. When police caught up with the suspects at a Roosevelt Boulevard motel just after midnight, Benson and Stubbs didn’t seem too concerned about the […]
Brady Bunch Reunion Cancelled Over Gay Flap
THE ADVOCATE: A planned reunion of the cast of The Brady Bunch has been canceled due to animosity between Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb, possibly relating to a rumor about a sexual relationship between the two actresses, reports RadarOnline. The six actors who played the Brady children in the iconic 1970s sitcom were scheduled to appear together Wednesday on the Today show, but plans for the televised reunion quickly fell apart when McCormick and Plumb each learned the other would be participating. Plumb reportedly still harbors resentment toward McCormick, suggesting she implied there was a slight lesbian relationship between the […]
THIS JUST IN: Pavement At The Mann Sept. 17th
After years of speculation, the most important American band of the Nineties is returning to the stage with the lineup of Mark Ibold, Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg, Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich and Steve West reuniting for dates around the world in 2010. Please be advised this tour is not a prelude to additional jaunts and/or a permanent reunion. Described in their own Wikipedia entry as having experienced “moderate commercial success,” Pavement’s catalog for the Matador, Domino, Drag City and Treble Kicker imprints has come to define in the eyes of many the blueprint for independent rock over the past generation. […]
SUICIDE GIRLS: Authorities Say Suburban Teens Killed By Self-Inflicted Train Crash
INQUIRER: Schocking news from the suburbs. The two teenage girls struck and killed by a high-speed Amtrak train in the Philadelphia suburb of Norwood last week stepped onto the tracks deliberately, meeting their deaths together in a suicide pact, according to authorities. Gina Gentile, 16, and Vanessa Dorwart, 15, were killed instantly when an Acela Express racing from Boston to Washington sped through Norwood at 10:28 a.m. last Thursday. An examination of their e-mail and text messages showed dark thoughts and fatalistic moods, Police Chief Mark DelVecchio said. In the days before they stepped into the path of the train, […]