Sloane Dzhitenov | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Tue, 28 Mar 2023 16:11:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 In Defense of Riverdale https://www.thesmartset.com/in-defense-of-riverdale/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-defense-of-riverdale https://www.thesmartset.com/in-defense-of-riverdale/#respond Mon, 27 Mar 2023 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=59798 When it was announced last summer that the upcoming season of Riverdale would be its last, I was — to say the least — heartbroken. Here was a show that was seemingly endless, sprawling across not just six seasons — each of them 19 to 22 episodes a piece — but also a multitude of timelines, approximately […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/in-defense-of-riverdale/feed/ 0 A Whole Lot of Elvis https://www.thesmartset.com/a-whole-lot-of-elvis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-whole-lot-of-elvis https://www.thesmartset.com/a-whole-lot-of-elvis/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:49:04 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=58101 The opening chords of Elvis, Baz Luhrmann’s latest sprawling visual epic, are positively electrifying. Luhrmann layers image upon vivid image, superimposing and split-screening to his heart’s content —indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if the first ten minutes managed to contain, on average, more than one fully-composed shot per second — in a vibrant build-up to the […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/a-whole-lot-of-elvis/feed/ 1 A Rare Thing in His Age https://www.thesmartset.com/a-rare-thing-in-his-age/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-rare-thing-in-his-age https://www.thesmartset.com/a-rare-thing-in-his-age/#respond Thu, 24 Feb 2022 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=57205 It just seemed like the thing to — to do at the time. I don’t really know . . . Well, I have — you know, I have been asked the question before, by — by Bill Murray, who said, ‘Why am I doing — why would I do this?’ Um, and I, ah, I […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/a-rare-thing-in-his-age/feed/ 0 Vincent Gallo and the Strange Unrealities of Buffalo 66 https://www.thesmartset.com/vincent-gallo-and-the-strange-unrealities-of-buffalo-66/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vincent-gallo-and-the-strange-unrealities-of-buffalo-66 https://www.thesmartset.com/vincent-gallo-and-the-strange-unrealities-of-buffalo-66/#respond Thu, 29 Jul 2021 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=55814 Many have tried to find the words to describe Vincent Gallo, but no epithet could do him as much justice as the artist’s portrayal of himself. This is a man who sells both his sperm and his body — advertised as a “wish, dream or fantasy with Vincent Gallo, ladies only” — on his website, using […]

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