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What: Exposition of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Where: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris – 11, Avenue du Président Wilson 75116 Paris

Link: http://mam.paris.fr

Photos and Text by  Rita Finol

@RitaFinol

Divided in 12 rooms, the Basquiat exposition review his creations from the beggining as an urban artist until his collaboration with Andy Warhol. On this occation, the museum has prepared an exhibition of the newyorker, of Haitian and Puerto Rican origins, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) to commmemorate what would have been his 50th birthday. With more than 100 works, is until now the biggest exposition dedicated to his work.

Compared with his contemporaries, such as Warhol, Basquiat has been underrated. However, his evident artistic genius, is gaining more and more recognition. What makes special every single one of his pieces is the frantic form they feel realized (they could be compare to a child’s drawing), opening a window on his crazy, impulsive, raving and even childish mind.

The Musée d’ Art Moderne de la Ville de Pairs is specialized in art of the 20th century. Their permanent collection includes works of Picasso, Matisse & Braque, and their temporary expositions are always looking to highlight the most important tendencies of that century. This is the reason why you have to give a spin around this exposition to admire the color, the controversial messages and the humor in every single piece of work from Jean-Michel Basquiat. It will be showing until january 30th.

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Who: Weezer

Where: Gibson Amphitheater @ L.A.

When: November 26th 2010

Why: Memories Tour 

By Lizandro Melean / @lizandro_melean

Weezer started out its Memories Tour with a blue-bang-concert in Los Angeles, their home, the city where they opened for bands that today doesn’t exists, made by people who thought these four geeks didn’t have anything to survive their first weeks on the stage. 2 shows, this, the first, with an exclusive second act for the ten songs from the blue album which in the second date will be change for the Pinkerton setlist.   

Living in Beverly Hills, or near there, have a lot of pros and one of them is you don’t have to wait seated for your favorite band to come and play in a venue near you. Every week there’s somebody important and this time Weezer stole the attention of all southern California, who gave us a throwback to 1994 with a non-stop session of their debut album while they remembered us thru each song how cool and glamorous is living in Beverly Hills.

Tell what we could see in two hours of rock-n-geek music is nearly imposible: 2 wardrobe changes, the last one a carbon copy of their looks from the blue album cover, an all kind memorabilia spot and even replicas of the famous geek-Cuomo-glasses (you could get for free next to the beer stations), the same glasses the vocalist used back there in 1995 before every hipster in town wear them absurdly without having a drop of myopia on their eyes.

The set was divided into a first hour of greatest hits where the crowd sang “Beverly Hills, “Memories”, “Troublemaker” Pork And Beans” “Hash Pipe” and they cheered with a special appearance from one of the infamous oceanic six, “the official mascot” of Weezer in this tour: We’re talking about Hurley from LOST, which sang “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You to) I Want You To”. A great moment for the geekiest in Gibsontown that night.

Weezer won’t be the next big thing (they are already) but we as CoolHunting Project were there first, we saw the growing baldness in Cuomo’s hair, his ability to put his public in his lifesaver pocket and we breathe the beginning of one of the most awaited tour of the year before anyone and all this is here for you to go like a happy meal.

NOTE: The videos doesn’t have the same quality as Avatar, but they are here first than others and that’s what memories are all about.

REMINDER: If you are on California you might still have the chance to see the Pinkerton set today. Run to see if you can manage to get some tickets.

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Who: La Milpa Smoke Shop

Where: Condesa México DF. Iztalccihuatl #20. Entre Amsterdam y Capeche

By Alejandro Gómez
@LosTelecaster

Attention to all potheads in the world: the Milpa Smoke Shop is a piece of Amsterdam in La Colonia Condesa of Mexico D.F. This new store sells all the artifacts for every session of joy with the holy herb: rolling papers, colorful marihuana pipes and hachis, besides all the necessary munchies like potatoes and others snacks. 

“La Milpa will give” (a healthy dose of entertainment) to all the artists and models of La Condesa.

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Who: Daley

Myspace: myspace.com/daleyuk

Twitter: @DaleyMusic

By Greta Alvarez

@Grets

Daley is the update between Mika & Christina Aguilera to put you in context. He´s a songwriter from Manchester, with a swanky look and an awesome voice.

Some drops of pop mixed with soul: Daley is the new vocal promise that has to be listen.

Actually he doesn’t have half of the followers I have on Twitter. But is a matter of time, days or even minutes, for this to change with fans all over the world whose will discover him… yes, its fandom will rise but you can be the first.

His more recent collaboration with Gorillaz on the track Doncamatic,  is his last hit to let you go with.

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Lizandro Melean
@lizandro_melean

There’s an indispensable word that Hollywood sometimes forget to add in many of their projects: Entertainment. This little word is usually forgotten these days in the industry, which although it possess a great add-machinery on certain projects, AKA Harry Potter 7, many of them don’t pay justice to the hype they had on their advertisement.

The Next Three Days is that new film that deserves to be seeing, the one who gives what it promises, a great remake of the 2008 french film Anything For Her, which is already being overshadowed by the last entry of the Hogwarts magician. This flick deserves more attention but it will have it on the DVD/Blu-Ray market.

Russell, “Gladiator” Crowe is the one who has the baton on the acting side in this movie from writer/director Paul Haggis, Million Dollar Baby responsible for awarded scripts like and Crash, flick he also directed and with the one he took the Oscar for best picture in 2005. Here Haggis leaves racial matters on one side and goes hand-on-hand with the miscarriages of north American justice, on this particular case the stroke it causes on a middle class American family when Crowe’s wife, played by Elizabth Banks, it’s wrongfully accused by a murder she didn’t committed.

The movie is divided into three obvious acts where you will eat even the box where your popcorn comes thanks to the desperation of Russell Crowe’s attempts to release his girl from prison. Many online reviewers have compared Haggis effort with Hitchcock. I didn’t see that comparison anywhere. It’s a thriller yes, but it got more in common with the material of a Michael Connelly and John Grisham than with the master of suspense.

There is no Oscar material in here but Crowe does a real good job as the loving and desperate husband/father who would kill the president if that were necessary in order to save his family. It’s the one who carry us thru the movie. Banks does a really great role as the bipolar woman with strong character who’s wrongfully accused, many is pointing her out as outstanding but I don’t put her in that category. Liam Neeson does a little cameo which results in a great plot point, actor which will have a similar movie coming out on February 18th called Unknown.

An unpredictable material, good acting, apolish script, well developed characters and entertainment at 1000 miles per hour, that’s what you’ll get if you go into the theater to see The Next Three Days.

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