Moue Magazine

Dina Goldstein’s photo project “Fallen Princesses” was inspired by the Disney Princess obsession the artist saw in her young daughter and her friends. Goldstein decided to take the characters back to their more Grimm roots by setting the cheerfully garbed characters in darker modern scenarios. Snow White (above) has children and a lazy Prince Charming. Cinderella is drinking alone in a bar. Belle from Beauty and the Beast is undergoing plastic surgery. Rapunzel is undergoing chemo. Sleeping Beauty is in a retirement home with her prince. Jasmine from Aladdin is involved in Middle Eastern warfare.

Someone calling himself a Christian and an American is praying for the death of President Obama.

Carbon offsets offer a chance to feel better about ourselves, but how much to they help the environment? In practice, there are significant problems in which projects they support, and how they affect our long-term environmental policies.

Bigotry requires a certain level of cognitive dissonance among its practitioners. There needs to be a series of blind spots in place if someone is going to believe wholly in racial stereotypes that are very easily disproved. So it isn’t surprising when an act of bigotry is illogical. Take, for example, the National Review’s cover featuring SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

Branch Handmade has clothing, pillowcases and towels screenprinted with fantastic, vintage stock photo inspired graphics. The pillowcases do not come with the pillows inside- which I actually consider a positive since it is harder to find cute cases than it is covered pillows.

The official trailer for Rob Zombie’s reboot sequel H2: Halloween 2 has finally come out. I was somewhat torn in my opinion of the first film of the reboot; I loved the new material (Michael’s childhood) and the fact that Annie survived but thought that the middle part of the film- which imitated the original film heavily- needed some revisioning. I’m also ambivalent about H2.

Our server is still being a jerk and I’m working on getting it resolved before the end of this week. Apologies for slow load times or errors.

Margaret Poplawski and her 23 year old son Richard argued Saturday about a dog that had urinated in the house. The argument reached such a level that the mother called the police to have her son removed from the premises. When two officers responded, Richard Poplawski greeted them with a rifle, fatally wounding the officers within feet of the front door. A third officer, on his way home after his shift, also responded to the call and was killed in the street. Pittsburgh police officers and a SWAT team engaged in a four hour standoff with the gunman- who was dressed in a bulletproof vest- before he was apprehended.

Reminiscent of the Strokes’ early days, Spoon, or even Weezer, Swiss band Choo Choo harnesses the raw power of 60’s pop rock and turns it into what they call “steam powered garage rock.” The extra steam billows from their organist, Lili, cutting through the distorted guitar crunching to bring out melodic lines that are easy to hum along with. When the organ lines aren’t catchy, they outline chords to add that extra flare. Lead guitarist and vocalist, Dan, embodies the typical power-chord pounding and slacked singing one can expect from a garage rock band. Yan and Sam, bass and drums/backup vocals, keep things nice and tight, shoveling in the coal that keeps this stream train rolling.

Roo was probably joking when he gave me that as the title for his Moue Mix but considering my suggestion was ” Roo’s ‘At Least It Isn’t Death Metal’ Mis”, he’s probably getting the better deal this way. Find out about Roo Vandegrift and his art in our Gallery M interview.