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Time Out
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
A two-day indie sleaze music festival is coming to Staten Island this weekend
Staten Island remains the most shamefully under-visited of the city's five boroughs, even with a ferry service that has that rarest of NYC transport qualities: it's free. But for those looking for a nostalgic-slash-music reason to visit our southernmost district, the Maker Park Music and Art Fest this weekend promises a millennial Brooklynite's heaven, headlined by Dan Deacon and Jon Spencer. The event celebrates eight years of Maker Park Radio, a local Staten Island streaming station founded by Kristin Wallace (David Byrne's longtime promoter) and Tom Ferrie. Since its launch in 2017, the station has hosted over 120 DJs, some of whom will spin live between sets. Maker Park is on the island's northeast coast, with a lovely view of Bay Ridge just across the water for Brooklynites who might get easily homesick. But the festival's all-ages vibe will draw you right back into the moment with live portrait photography, local food and crafts vendors, and several art installations. Friday will kick off at 5 p.m. with NYC trash rockers Balaclava, followed by a 'sweet and amazing set' (Maker's words!) from Horsegirl and capped by Baltimore's Dan Deacon entrancing audiences with his electronic compositions. (If his name sounds familiar, you might have seen his name in the music credits for Venmo: The Last Dance or Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt.) Known for his audience-interactive shows, Deacon will have you feeling right at home. Night two packs an even bigger punch, highlighting Staten Island's indie outfit The Parallel Lines right off the bat, and Maker Park continuing their collaboration with Coney Island Sideshow artists with 'Priestess of Pyromancy,' the enchantress Sage Sovereign. The retro sounds of SKORTS will blend into The Thing—both NYC groups—before NOBRO, a Canadian band that just won the Best Album Juno (i.e. Canadian Grammy), takes the stage. Jon Spencer will close out the two-day festival with a three-piece band to deliver his soulful rock and roll.
Jordan Times
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Jordan Times
Hollywood actor Val Kilmer dies aged 65: New York Times
Actor Val Kilmer attends the premiere of 'Twixt' at Princess of Wales during the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011 in Toronto, Canada (AFP photo) NEW YORK — American actor Val Kilmer, who was first propelled to fame with "Top Gun" and went on to starring roles as Batman and Jim Morrison, has died at age 65, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The cause of death was pneumonia, his daughter Mercedes Kilmer told the Times. She said he had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and later recovered. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer got his start on the big screen with Cold War spoof "Top Secret!" in 1984. Two years later, he gained fame as the cocky, if mostly silent aviator Iceman in "Top Gun", playing a rival to Tom Cruise's Maverick. A versatile actor whose career spanned decades, Kilmer got a shot at leading man roles in Oliver Stone's "The Doors" and took a turn as the masked Gotham vigilante in "Batman Forever", playing Bruce Wayne after Michael Keaton and before George Clooney. Kilmer was the youngest person ever accepted to New York's fabled Juilliard school and longed to make serious films. But he found himself in a series of schlocky blockbusters and expensive flops in the early 2000s. Chastened by a decade or more of low-budget movies, he was mounting a comeback in the 2010s with a successful stage show about Mark Twain that he hoped to turn into a film, when he was struck by cancer. "Val", a documentary about his stratospheric rise and later fall in Hollywood showed him rasping for air, premiered at the Cannes film festival in 2021. Kilmer recently returned to movie theaters in 2021 with a cameo reprising his role as Iceman in "Top Gun: Maverick", the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 hit.
Jordan Times
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Jordan Times
Hollywood actor Val Kilmer dies aged 65
Actor Val Kilmer attends the premiere of 'Twixt' at Princess of Wales during the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011 in Toronto, Canada (AFP photo) NEW YORK — American actor Val Kilmer, who was first propelled to fame with "Top Gun" and went on to starring roles as Batman and Jim Morrison, has died at age 65, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The cause of death was pneumonia, his daughter Mercedes Kilmer told the Times. She said he had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and later recovered. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer got his start on the big screen with Cold War spoof "Top Secret!" in 1984. Two years later, he gained fame as the cocky, if mostly silent aviator Iceman in "Top Gun", playing a rival to Tom Cruise's Maverick. A versatile actor whose career spanned decades, Kilmer got a shot at leading man roles in Oliver Stone's "The Doors" and took a turn as the masked Gotham vigilante in "Batman Forever", playing Bruce Wayne after Michael Keaton and before George Clooney. Kilmer was the youngest person ever accepted to New York's fabled Juilliard school and longed to make serious films. But he found himself in a series of schlocky blockbusters and expensive flops in the early 2000s. Chastened by a decade or more of low-budget movies, he was mounting a comeback in the 2010s with a successful stage show about Mark Twain that he hoped to turn into a film, when he was struck by cancer. "Val", a documentary about his stratospheric rise and later fall in Hollywood showed him rasping for air, premiered at the Cannes film festival in 2021. Kilmer recently returned to movie theaters in 2021 with a cameo reprising his role as Iceman in "Top Gun: Maverick", the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 hit.
