Salvando al Soldado Pérez

Checking in with the star of Mexico's hit narco-comedy

The New Mexican Cinema movement may have calmed to a simmer in recent years, but the country’s presence on the international film scene is here to stay. At Los Angeles’ recent Hola México Festival, festival-goers were treated to a secret midnight screening of “Salvando al Soldado Pérez” (Private Pérez). The film follows Julian Pérez—surrounded by hired thugs, killers, and accomplices—on his quest to find his …

Rock Paper Photo

Famed Beatles photographer Tom Murray on the debut of the ultimate online gallery of pop culture images

Last week online photography gallery Rock Paper Photo launched, ambitiously making thousands of the most sought-after images in pop culture history available to the general public. Shot by top photographers, all images are carefully selected, available in limited editions and hand-signed by the lensmen themselves. Connoisseurs can snap up Richard E Aaron’s archival pigment print of Jerry Garcia peering over his glasses for thousands or, …

Lara Knutson

Shimmering reflective jewelry and vessels from a designer pushing the limits of light

When The Future Perfect owner David Alhadeff met Lara Knutson five years ago, he described the attraction to her work as “immediate and visceral, like a moth to a flame.” Comprised of reflective glass fabrics, the shimmering surfaces have that effect on most, especially when Alhadeff showed them at his Noho store recently during NYC’s design week. Alhadeff gave the Pratt grad (she holds degrees …