Tribeca Film Festival 2017: Highlights

Embracing, excelling beyond and avoiding traditional cinema at this year's event

In its 16th year, NYC’s Tribeca Film Festival now comprises thousands of screenings, multiple venues, cross-disciplinary works and so much more to be excited about—whether or not cinema is your primary passion. What began as an attempt to revitalize the TriBeCa neighborhood post-9/11 has expanded into one of the city’s most important creative endeavors. Founders Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro have built a platform …

Interview: Radish Fiction Founder, Seung Yoon Lee

A new model for publishing and a destination for lovers of serialized stories

As many writers know, it’s not easy to make money in the literary world. Sure, most industries need scribes and there are many writing-centric fields, but for aspiring fiction writers, the industry appears much as it did 100 years ago. Publishing, even with our internet and e-reader advancements, hasn’t really changed that much. Remarkably, Radish is trying to change that, and they’re doing so by …

Building a “Harold and Maude” Jaguar E-Type Hearse

The morbid, macabre and entirely transfixing Jaguar E-Type hearse first crossed into the public consciousness through the 1971 cult classic film “Harold and Maude.” Ken Roberts, in search of a “movie car,” ultimately decided to build one himself. As Roberts shares with Petrolicious, “In the movie, Harold builds his in about two days. Well, it took us four years, and more money than I even …