The Roxie Theater is going to the dogs this month, as Mashable reports the San Francisco establishment will open its doors to our beloved canines for a screening of Wes Anderson’s Isle Of Dogs.
More than 40 years after the song’s 1971 release, Yoko Ono is receiving a songwriting credit on John Lennon’s classic “Imagine.” Lennon had previously advocated for Ono to get a co-writing credit on the song, saying as much in a 1980 video clip that was shown today at a ceremony recognizing the song’s importance, held…
It’s hard to deny that Yoko Ono and John Lennon were very much in love, but the actual backstory of that love is usually a bit controversial. Even going off of a pretty sanitized account, Lennon met Ono while he was still married to his first wife, Cynthia Lennon, who he definitely cheated on. Then, after Cynthia…
Wes Anderson is doling out some key information about his next, canine-themed film. Though we had previously learned that it was going to be a stop-motion project about dogs starring the likes of Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, and (who else?) Bill Murray, now we have an official title and an extended cast list. In a…
Given the number of celebrities who’ve been registering their shock and dismay at the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency this week, it’s not surprising that legendary activist and musician Yoko Ono would eventually weigh in. But while it took her a day or two, you have to credit Ono for expressing her…
Somewhere amid the grief for which she is an unwitting living reminder, the lingering (if misguided) resentment over the end of arguably the greatest rock band to ever exist, and the 25-minute songs of anguished wailing, the world lost sight of Yoko Ono’s sense of humor. After all, as John Lennon once told Rolling…
People who enjoy having knee-jerk negative reactions to anything involving Yoko Ono will find a lot to be knee-jerky about in the newly released video for the remix of her song “Catman,” off of the album, Yes I’m A Witch Too. It features a black-leotard-clad catlike young woman leading a group of older women in…
A weekly web series created by PBS Digitial Studios called The Art Assignment has lately taken on the daunting and noble challenge of defending the work of controversial artists whose very names elicit exaggerated eye rolls and audible groans of disgust. So far, there have been episodes devoted to Mark Rothko, Andy…
As fans pause to remember John Lennon on the 35th anniversary of his death, there is one clip that summarizes his life and career with incredible efficiency. Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, famously co-hosted the daytime chatfest The Mike Douglas Show for a week in February 1972. One of Lennon’s guests that week was…
John Lennon was a man who loved a handful of things very deeply, like writing dark songs that directly contrasted the whimsical delight of Paul McCartney, imagining what things would be like if we had nothing to kill or die for (and no religion too), and, of course, round glasses. However, there is one thing he loved…
In between her busy days of depressing beverages, slapping cloth hands on people’s nipples, and unfairly serving as an easy rallying cry for the music-minded misogynist, Yoko Ono occasionally manages to put out some music of her own. In 2007, Ono teamed up with a group of young artists like Cat Power and The Flaming…
The coffee cup is the canvas into which we pour our very soul, and our very coffee. It is the means by which the world discerns our feelings about mornings and Mondays, our allegiances to sports teams and Ziggy, and the vast, colorful history of conferences we attended. But all too rarely is the coffee cup used to…
“Yes, of course! That’s it!” There is perhaps no sweeter moment in television, or truly in all of existence, than that inevitable scene in every episode of Murder, She Wrote during which Angela Lansbury’s inquisitive mystery writer Jessica Fletcher gets a sudden flash of inspiration and dashes off to solve yet another…
Inspired by online education sites like Khan Academy, a group of artists and educators is launching an online art school for teenage girls. Like Khan, the School For Doodle will provide free educational content designed to encourage creativity and confidence in its high-school-age audience, all in the face of…
