Posts Tagged ‘culture’
Kicking + Screening, the soccer film festival, finally gets a run in Liverpool May 17-19 in association with Liverpool Sound City. Happening at Static Gallery, the festival will feature a schedule of quality football films as well as over events, all leading up to a Champions League Final party on …
Fans of League One side Hartlepool have a tradition of dressing up for away games, whenever the mood strikes. Today, for the club’s last match of the season in London against Charlton, the Hartlepool faithful are going as smurfs. They looked like this for the entire trip from the North …
Olympique de Marseille have their own art. And when I saw they have their own art, I mean they have their own art. Alongside prestige brands like Ducati and Alfa Romeo, artwork inspired by the French club is available for purchase at a site called Art of Brands. Wanna see …
So, April has come and April has gone, leaving yours truly a year older and a couple of excellent albums richer in its wake. I usually try to keep the music here pretty accessible, but sometimes, you just have to share the awesome English folk-rock with everyone you know.
There’s not much we at KCKRS like more than showing off talented artists celebrating the beautiful game (Okay, maybe a big steak and the full series of Arrested Development, but you get the point.) A couple of months ago, we featured the excellent “I AM NUMBER TEN” poster collection by …
I’ve met the new wunderkind of American soccer. He’s someone who I think will help shape our view of the game for years to come. But he’s not some speedy forward who will join the ranks of Messi and Ronaldo. And he’s not some eagle-eyed midfielder who will elevate our game …
Okay, so my knowledge of fashion is limited mainly to soccer jerseys, soccer t-shirts, band t-shirts, and blue jeans, but even I know that Elle is Kind Of A Big Deal when it comes to fashion. And being a soccer writer, I definitely know that David Beckham is Kind Of A …
They say not to judge a book by its cover. That’s stupid, covers are on books for the express reason of making judgments. In that vein, this painting show exactly why people do things like price England fans out of visiting.
After a rash of violence, most notably a post-match fracas between Hapoel Haifa and Maccabi Petah Tikva in which a player was knocked unconscious, police in central Israel are prepared to take drastic measures. Commit a violent act on the field, and they’ll take you in for questioning. On the …
Recently, the soccer world has seen steady rise of solid niche publications, despite the ubiquitous internet and declining print sales. Joining the ranks of The Green Soccer Journal and The Blizzard, British start-up Spiel hopes to infuse a gentler side to the game. As he puts it so eloquently, part-founder …
This D.C. United neighborhood t-shirt—they managed to work in most of the major neighborhoods from the District, Maryland and Norther Virginia—is being given away to the first 7,500 fans at United’s match against Seattle on Saturday courtesy of Living Social. It’s an attractive nod to all of the varied locales …
Argentine filmmaker Juan Jose Campanella, most famous for his 2009 Academy Award winning crime thriller El Secreto de sus ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes) is working on an animated film about talking foosball players called, naturally, Foosball. The story centers on a man who takes on a soccer pro …
I realized while typing the headline for this post that the last two months the title I’ve used, “What KCKRS Is Listening To,” ends a sentence on a preposition, which is a no-no, especially since I’m starting some part-time editing work next week. Mea Culpa. Now, grammar issues aside, let’s …
Former Oasis guitarist/songwriter Noel Gallagher (most talented English person since Shakespeare) is currently on tour with his new group, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. Touring invariably involves plenty of promotional work, and when it was Columbus Alive’s turn to have a chat with Noel, they managed to get in a …
Many KCKRS readers will be familiar with Zoran Lucić, the brilliant designer from Bosnia and Herzegovina whose work we have featured here before. And we then interviewed. And then featured again. And again. Well, here’s some more. And they are excellent.
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