Wes edens articles
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Big Homie Wes, 'Let Me Vent Please'
(Self-released, digital) Anyone paying attention to Vermont's growing hip-hop scene knows Big Homie Wes as an institution. From his start as a young, hungry open-mic rapper, he's evolved into a show promoter and touring artist, building a circuit throughout New England and Canada. All along, he's remained a humble student of the game, creating opportunities for other aspiring local MCs. Given how hard he grinds, you'd think Wes would have plenty to get off his chest. Yet there is...
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'The Life Aquatic' Remains Wes Anderson's Masterpiece
Wes Anderson’s “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” was the filmmaker’s first lavish, wildly stylish and extremely divisive work. The momentum of “Rushmore” (1998) and “The Royal Tenenbaums” (2001) allowed Anderson final cut privilege and immediate auteur status, a deserved title, to be sure, but not a guarantee that audiences would embrace all of his eccentric visions. Case in point - “The Life Aquatic” had a wide Christmas day opening and baffled most audiences and critics. Twenty years later,...
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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: London's most exclusive gentlemen's club, White's
No gentlemen's club is prouder of its reputation as a bastion of the Establishment than White's, founded in 1693 and lying just a couple of hundred yards from St James's Palace.