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Christy Turlington Burns: Global Supermodel to Global Superadvocate
Christy Turlington Burns, the California-born beauty of Salvadoran descent, is more than a supermodel. She’s also an advocate for human rights, a yoga practitioner, a businesswoman, and a mother.
Turlington’s career has taken her all over the world and on the covers and pages of Vogue, Vanity Fair, Time, V, Cookie, Mirabella, Elle… (just to name a few). She’s one of four supermodels in Catwalk, a 1996 documentary (filmed in 1993) that followed her during Fashion Week in the major fashion capitals of the world. Turlington has appeared in campaigns for Bottega Veneta, Canon Japan, Calvin Klein, Escada, Versace, and Maybelline. There’s more. Turlington is an author. She penned Living Yoga: Living a Life of Practice, published in 2002 by Hyperion. Continue reading “Christy Turlington Burns: Global Supermodel to Global Superadvocate”
Rihanna Makes the Sweetest Summer Festival Sweeter this Year!
Unless you’re from Barbados, you probably learned about the Crop Festival for the first time in your life just this week. 
Rihanna’s appearance at the Festival’s Grand Kadooment and Emancipation Day event resulted in online entertainment headlines all over the internet that introduced the world to the Crop Over Festival. 
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Zazen and the Art of Vanessa Veselka
Ever since H.G. Wells published his speculative sci-fi telegram The Shape of Things to Come in 1933, numerous artists have adapted his title to suit their own prophecies. Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come demanded that the genre evolve or face irrelevance. Swedish band Refused did the same for underground rock with The Shape of Punk to Come. Ornette and Refused don’t sound particularly alike, but they both purported that music, and art in general, loses all power and urgency once it has become fashionable, marketable, a commodity of mass culture. They were onto something––––after all, this is a world in which Che Guevara t-shirts are sold at shopping malls. Continue reading “Zazen and the Art of Vanessa Veselka”
NBC’s ‘Outsourced’, [watch episodes online]
Terrence Malick and the Making of America
Now that Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life––––a film that earned both heckling and the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year––––is almost out of theaters and more firmly a part of the controversial auteur’s canon, I feel prompted to reexamine Malick’s career and his ideas about American life. Continue reading “Terrence Malick and the Making of America”