http://hightimes.com en-us 0.4 By Steve Bloom The 6th Annual Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) in New York featured 157 films and 88 shorts from April 25 to May 6. Here are five TFF faves, in order of preference: The Third Wave, directed by Alison Thompson Thompson’s a HIGH TIMES favorite. After all, she directed our feature film, HIGH TIMES’ Potluck (2003). Ten days after the tsunami hit the coast of Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, Thompson flew to the devastated country with her producer …More]]> http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/2239?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Fri, 11 May 2007 11:53:33 -0400 http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/2239?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Steve Bloom By Steve Bloom New Orleans is the kind of place where you can hear quality jazz and eat fresh oysters in the airport. It’s America’s jazz city. New Orleans is also, due to Hurricane Katrina, America’s most depressed city. But that hasn’t stopped it from hosting the sprawling 38-year-old Jazz & Heritage Festival (a.k.a. Jazzfest). Despite abandoned houses and stores virtually everywhere (except for perhaps in the French Quarter, the tourist zone that was …More]]> http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/2192?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Thu, 03 May 2007 11:37:13 -0400 http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/2192?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Steve Bloom By Steve Bloom Stephen Marley, Bob Marley’s second son, is smoking a perfectly rolled spliff in his home studio in South Miami. He starts with freshly chopped herb on a cutting board, then adds a “lickle” loose tobacco and twists it up using a long Rizla paper. “If you don’t roll it right, you get what we call a sore-foot spliff,” he laughs. Of course, he rolls it right. No loose pockets—it’s a cone that would make any Jamaican or Dutch …More]]> http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/1868?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:46:23 -0400 http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/1868?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Steve Bloom By Steve Bloom Hollywood's latest take on Andy Warhol focuses on his temporary muse, Edie Sedgwick, who burst on the Factory scene like a comet in 1965. She's the star of George Hickenlooper's Factory Girl, in theaters now. The movie is not without its controversies. Bob Dylan has threatened to sue for defamation of character and Lou Reed allegedly hates it. Sedgwick (played by Sienna Miller) arrives from Boston a well-to-do 22-year-old woman seeking attention, glamour and fame …More]]> http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/1700?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:16:35 -0500 http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/1700?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Steve Bloom By Steve Bloom Just four days before the DEA raided 11 dispensaries in Los Angeles, Pickwick Gardens in Burbank rudely booted the Americans for Safe Access conference, scheduled for January 12-14. More than 200 registrants were not allowed to return on Sunday, Jan. 14, forcing ASA to hastily regroup at a nearby Mexican restaurant. The reason given for the cancellation was pot smoking on the Gardens’ grounds. Conference attendees included Debby Goldsberry, Ed Rosenthal, Todd …More]]> http://hightimes.com/news/sbloom/1502?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:58:11 -0500 http://hightimes.com/news/sbloom/1502?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Steve Bloom By Steve Bloom CONCERT REVIEW - TENACIOUS D Rocks MSG Part Tommy and part Spinal Tap, Tenacious D's ambitious stoner-rock opera The Pick of Destiny - it's currently in movie theaters and available as a soundtrack cd - came to New York's Madison Square Garden on Dec. 1. For those of you not familiar with "The D," actor Jack Black and his guitar-playing partner Kyle Gass perform as an acoustic duo who really want to ROCK! This requires a band, which they have …More]]> http://hightimes.com/news/sbloom/1135?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:26:31 -0500 http://hightimes.com/news/sbloom/1135?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Steve Bloom By Steve Bloom CONCERT REVIEW - TENACIOUS D Rocks MSG Part Tommy and part Spinal Tap, Tenacious D's ambitious stoner-rock opera The Pick of Destiny - it's currently in movie theaters and available as a soundtrack cd - came to New York's Madison Square Garden on Dec. 1. For those of you not familiar with "The D," actor Jack Black and his guitar-playing partner Kyle Gass perform as an acoustic duo who really want to ROCK! This requires a band, which they have …More]]> http://hightimes.com/news/sbloom/1137?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:26:31 -0500 http://hightimes.com/news/sbloom/1137?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Steve Bloom By Steve Bloom Move over Michael Moore, you've got company Cindy Sheehan, make some room Bill Maher. Neil Young's coming to your town with his old buds David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, and he's got a lot on his mind. The aging rocker sounds, well, young again, protesting like did in the '60s and early '70s against the Vietnam War. Now, however, it's the Iraqi War that has him all worked up. Young's latest album, Living With War, is a broadside against US policies …More]]> http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/3697?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:17:44 -0400 http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/3697?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Steve Bloom By Steve Bloom Thirty-seven years ago, a little event called Woodstock happened. It took place in Bethel, about 90 miles north of New York City on the Thruway and then west on Rt. 17. I flashed on this immortal event as I drove by signs for Bethel, Woodstock and Saugerties en route to Duanesburg – the site of this past weekend’s 11th Annual Gathering of the Vibes (GOTV). Now in its fifth year at Indian Lookout Country Club, GOTV is a seasoned event with quality …More]]> http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/3692?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:02:50 -0400 http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/3692?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Steve Bloom Story by Steve Bloom Photo by Dawnja From the reggae/punk of Manu Chao to the suave dance music of Venezuela's Los Amigos Invisibles, worldbeat was the musical flavor of choice at the Celebrate Brooklyn! summer concert series in Prospect Park this past weekend. In a rare US performance, Manu Chao electrified the sold-out audience on Monday night. Chao, who was born in Spain and raised in Paris, alternates between Bob Marley-style reggae, flamenco-accented guitar pop and intense …More]]> http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/3669?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:45:35 -0400 http://hightimes.com/entertainment/sbloom/3669?utm_source=rss_section_Steve Bloom Steve Bloom