Pop-Up Magazine Tour

A new kind of storytelling performance, not recorded or filmed

Taking new non-fiction stories off the page and into the third dimension, Pop-Up Magazine is an unusual performance template aiming to keep the audience at the edge of their seats. Across a wide range of topics—pop culture, crime, science, food, politics, music—narrators will speak, making use of visuals (be it animation or film or photography) all the while an on-stage band performs the story’s “soundtrack.” …

La Femme: Sphynx

After their debut 2013 album Psycho Tropical Berlin, the trippy beach town rock band La Femme (hailing from Biarritz, France) is back to soundtrack our spring—or at least tonight’s post-dusk adventures. “Sphynx” has the distinct pulling, hypnotic tone of the previous album, and gets more introspective. Their NSFW video—La Femme’s Marlon Magnée co-directs—is a hallucinatory journey through gaping mouths, one after the next. Best watched …

A Photo Series Following a Chinatown Family for 13 Years

Nicknamed the “Boyhood” of Chinatown, a photo series by Thomas Holton traces the 13-year growth of a young family living in New York City. Officially titled “The Lams of Ludlow Street,” the collection of images begins with the tender moments of family life—a mom watching her kids take a bath, everyone setting up for dinner. But by the end of the series, the family has …