Sound Check: The Magician
In SOUND CHECK, we check in with some of our favorite musicians. It may be a different type of magic, but Stephen Fasano––better known as The Magician––could give even superstar magician Criss Angel a...
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What Are Little Girls Made Of? Jessica Stoller at PPOW
As the saying goes: “Sugar and spice and everything nice.” If Jessica Stoller had it her way, it might be something a little more like: “Lobster claws, six-inch fingernails, and nipple macaroons.”...
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Kalifornia Dreaming with the Kenzo Kalifornia Bag
Take a trip up the Pacific Coast Highway with Kenzo's new bag series, the Kalifornia! Named after Carol and Humberto's home state, the bag was envisioned by the creative director duo to suit an...
View ArticleSound Check: Lunice
In SOUND CHECK, we check in with some of our favorite musicians. At just 25, Montreal-bred producer Lunice is changing the face of hip-hop with his beat-driven sound, rich compositions, and...
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Bites on a Budget: $8.75 at Salud
BITES ON A BUDGET is a toothsome and tasty series where members of the OC family forage for great food––under $10! Salud describes itself as “a Latin take on organic.” Health-conscious and Mexican...
View ArticleSue Chef: Ignacio Mattos at Estela
On any given night, Sue Chan could be sampling new David Chang innovations, launching an issue of Lucky Peach, or karaoking after-hours with Danny Bowien. Sue spent her teen years glued to Martha...
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5 Things We Love from the Her by OC Collection
Last night at the Golden Globes, filmmaker and dear friend of OC Spike Jonze hit it out of the park, winning Best Screenplay for his new film Her. To celebrate this massive honor, we've pulled out our...
View ArticleWe Can't Help But Love These Ugly Belgian Houses
Ugly Belgian Houses doesn't sound like the name of a blog that would go viral. For one, it's about architecture. And its images aren't the kind of eye-candy you save as "inspiration" for your "future"...
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Straight Trippin': Jen Brill in Panama
In STRAIGHT TRIPPIN', OC friends and family share tidbits from their latest travels. This time around, creative director and friend of OC Jen Brill shares snaps from her recent trip to Panama! Name:...
View ArticleNew-to-OC Brand MASSIVE on Husky Gay Asian Erotica
I am a fan of manga and anime, but my interaction with it has been limited to Pokémon and shoujo/josei slice-of-life stories, which depict the daily life of high school and college students. I never...
View ArticleThe VH1 Divas Of Poetry Readings
People go to readings for the people. We could swim the stream of Tumblrs and tweets for days, but the warmth of a computer screen can't keep Brooklyn kids from rubbing elbows and drinking beers and...
View ArticleFaux Real: In the Studio with Hannah Weiland of Shrimps
You might wonder why designer Hannah Weiland decided to name her brand of furry creations Shrimps. Well, Hannah is Shrimps—or at least, it was her childhood nickname. And right now, all we OC girls...
View ArticleIsabella Rossellini Brings Animal Sex to Brooklyn
"Do you know what biodiversity means?” Isabella Rossellini asks me. “It’s about the many ways in which you can reproduce, raise children. Generally you have one answer [for all species]—but there are...
View ArticleSound Check: Connan Mockasin
In SOUND CHECK, we check in with some of our favorite musicians. “He sounds like Flight of the Conchords,” a girl says to her boyfriend at Connan Mockasin’s sold-out show at Glasslands last Friday...
View ArticleThe Russian Café That Charges for Time, Not Food
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it,” wrote Henry Thoreau, and London’s new pay-as-you-sit café, Ziferblat, has given the amount of life spent in their space a price:...
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Unknown Pleasures: Proenza Schouler Resort 2014
I can no longer look at striations in close proximity without thinking of that iconic Joy Division Unknown Pleasures album cover. Proenza Schouler's new Resort collection is full of prints that look...
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Walter Van Beirendonck Fall/Winter 2014 at Paris Men's Fashion Week
Walter Van Beirendonck's latest show in Paris was a gorgeous blur of dots and stripes: both the tailored, British kind and the kind so often called "tribal." Think neatly creased blazers and trousers,...
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Julien David Fall/Winter 2014 at Paris Men's Fashion Week
Leave it to Julien David to serve up laid-back street with just the right amount of buttoned-up clean. Case in point: the nubby, Rasta-colored, boxy suit the designer sent down the runway of this...
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Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2014 at Paris Men's Fashion Week
Raf Simons designed his men's collection this year in collaboration with artist Sterling Ruby, and it showed: the clothes were patched with images of planets, fraying blocks of tweed and camo, and...
View ArticleThe Look: Kay Kasparhauser
In THE LOOK OC friends drop by to try on our favorite new arrivals and tell us about their wardrobe preferences past and present. This week, the ridiculously cute Kay Kasparhauser, front woman of the...
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