Gogol: un-mellow
‘Gogol Project’ mixes three Gogol short stories – review at NeonTommy.com There aren’t a whole lot of ways to make abstruse Russian literature palatable to a room full of young Echo Park hipsters, but a giant walking nose is one way to go about it. If Nikolai Gogol had written three of his most famous...
‘The Informant!’ Reviewed
Hot actors love to get frumpy for movies, and critics love them for doing it. Charlize Theron was a mulletted serial killer in Monster, Nicole Kidman had a giant plastic proboscis in The Hours, and Matt Damon creeped his way to a Golden Globe in The Talented Mr. Ripley. Now he’s doing it again in...
Killers Review – Hollywood Bowl – LA Record
A Killers concert is like a night at a European dance club: every song is an upper, strobe lights hit you from all sides, and the lyrics seem deep, though somewhat nonsensical. Are we human? Are we dancer? And who is Mr. Brightside? It doesn’t matter, because each song is a three-minute shot of Red...
Pico Art Show – Santa Monica