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MAY 2013
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Channel Surfing
Two acts take their genre
experimentations to new places
U.K. multi-instrumentalist
singer-songwriter
Ellie
Goulding
’
s unmistakable
trill and soulful wails finally
made it across the Atlantic
last year—it remains nearly
impossible to turn on a
Top 40 station in the U.S. and
not hear “Lights”—but she
won’t have to travel quite
as far when she brings her
folktronica-ballad-dance-pop
jumble to the legendary
Parisian performance venue
Le Bataclan on May 2.
Goulding isn’t
the only genre
blender to
cross the
Channel
this month.
Heading in
the opposite
direction are
platinum-
selling French
electro-swing
pioneers
Caravan Palace
,
who perform
at London’s O2 Shepherd’s
Bush Empire onMay 23.
They’ll do just fine there: The
septet’s new album,
Panic
,
which came out inMarch,
has a contemporary gypsy
jazz sound that could best be
described as Django Rein-
hardt meets Da Punk—two
French acts that went over
quite well abroad.
“
EVERYONE I’VE TALKED TO
about it says, ‘I can’t believe there hasn’t been
a horror film festival here yet,’” says Jenny Bloom, who, as director of the
inaugural Stanley Film Festival, is aiming to put that right.
Opened in 1909 in Estes Park, Colo., The Stanley Hotel inspired the se ing for
Stephen King’s 1977 horror novel,
The Shining
.
Stanley Kubrick’s subsequent
film adaptation still plays on a loop on an in-house television channel here, and
crews from “Ghost Hunters” intermi ently prowl the grounds in search of at
least half a dozen reputed spirits. That there hasn’t been a formal fright festival
yet at The Stanley strains credibility.
Meanwhile, the hotel staff—busy outfi ing screening venues and assembling
a lineup that will include roughly 16 features, two shorts packages, several retro-
spectives and a student film competition—are predicting a horror film festival
par excellence. It seems they’ve been hearing peculiar noises in the screening
room; if all goes well, an aptly timed ghostly appearance could make the event
a magnet for horror fans from around the world. Then again, there’s already a
pre y impressive draw: the chance to stay in the infamous Room 217.
“
Stephen King’s room is still open,” says Bloom. “I think we’ll do a giveaway
for it. I want to make it special.”
may 2–5
culture
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THEMONTHAHEAD
A venerable Colorado hotel that once hosted Stephen King
gets shined up for its debut horror festival
Old Haunt
Biological cities:
“
Urban
life in the future could look
a lot like jungle life today. In
cities made of semi-living
materials and powered by
sunlight, we’ll grow our food
on living roofs and walls
and have specially treated
algae to filter our air and
water. We won’t be killing
the mold in our kitchens;
we’ll be
cultivating
it.”
Space colonies:
“
To escape
this deadly rock—what
with its tsunamis, earth-
quakes and megavolcanoes
—
we’ll decamp to cities
on other planets. Robot
construction crews will
arrive first, of course, so
our homes will be move-in
ready when our spacecraft
land outside New New
Mexico on Mars.”
Computers:
“
It’s possible
that in 100 years we’ll be
able to upload our minds
the same way we upload
music now. Just leave our
bodies behind and exist
in a virtual world. And
going on vacation? Forget
about booking hotels and
traveling for hours—just
teleport into your favorite
videogame.”
Never Say Die-Out
Doomsayers, don’t waste your
breath on Annalee Newitz.
No ma er what global calam-
ity befalls us, the author of
the new popular-science title
Sca er, Adapt, and Remember
believes we
Homo sapiens
will keep on truckin’. But ... where will we
live? Here, Newitz offers a preview of three
possible 22nd-century habitats.
may 14
HIT GIRL
Warbler
Ellie Goulding
DEAD-ON
Jack Nicholson
in
The Shining
,
whose setting
was inspired by
The Stanley
WARNER BROTHERS/GETTY IMAGES (
THE SHINING
)
