Tweet Your friend sets you up on a blind date. So you head over to your local, non-profit, organic, trans-friendly laundromat and pick up a black shirt for the occasion. You meet the mystery man at a unpretentiously chic New York bar only to find out: he’s a Republican! What do you say? “I hope [...]
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Web Series Spotlight: ‘It Gets Betterish’ Hates Lady Gaga
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 17th, 2011
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‘East WillyB’ Skewers Hipster ‘Burg With Humor
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on April 19th, 2011
Tweet Posted at Tubefilter! If The Burg is for Lovers, it’s also, according to East Willy B, for Latinos. The new comedy series about a diverse community in Bushwick (or East Williamsburg) hopes to capitalize on both the popularity of Brooklyn among web series and the growing Latino market online.
Is Black Queer Back?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 24th, 2010
Tweet Thanks to Racialicious for reposting! In Brooklyn one night in May I was treated to my very first performance from Monstah Black, an artist who defies categorization, but whose show I would characterize as part-rock concert, part-live art theatre, with a black queer bent. Despite my awe I managed to divert my eyes long [...]
That Was Fast: Web Series Remix “How to Make It In America”
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 25th, 2010
Tweet Also filed under: “Things that make me feel old at the age of 25.” How quickly can one create a series riffing off a new HBO show? In a few weeks, apparently. Smoke DZA, a rapper I’ve never heard of — excuse! This is a film and TV blog! I don’t do music — [...]
“How to Make It in America:” Betting on the Decline of New York
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 4th, 2010
Tweet One of many still photos of New York from the opening credits. Originally published at Splice Today; Thanks to Racialicious for reposting this. Dude comedies have become a staple of the American media diet, though they probably always have been in some form or another. Slacker dudes are particularly popular—the successes of Judd Apatow [...]
Televisual Break: The Dying Manhattan Coffee Shop (and the Case of Philadelphia)
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 3rd, 2010
Tweet Taking a break from film/TV/web series today to talk about an issue dear to my heart: the urban coffee shop. Specifically, the dying Manhattan coffee shop (and how Philadelphia is better). I originally wrote this for Splice Today, but decided to re-post here after hearing from a friend, Madison Moore, that Esperanto, a 24-hour [...]
