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"offbeat" Definitions
  1. different from what most people expect

845 Sentences With "offbeat"

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I think they're quite different, actually, even though [they're both] still offbeat, but offbeat in different genres.
THOR RAGNAROK is hilarious & weird & offbeat & retro & sublime.
There may be a few other offbeat ideas to try.
A24 keeps picking up offbeat but extremely creepy horror films.
There are times when his offbeat work seems almost functional.
A half dozen refugees have found work at Eat Offbeat.
Warmed up to the right temperature with some offbeat effectsbox.
These showcases tend to highlight the experimental and the offbeat.
I had less control which renders these great offbeat shapes.
How was all this success at landing offbeat residencies possible?
But as offbeat baseball trivia goes, it is pretty irresistible.
But for an offbeat vehicle like that, that's kind of incredible.
We're looking forward to seeing Hamm take on another offbeat role.
But this is not the first offbeat Instagram campaign for Gucci.
John Kasich of Ohio for his positive and slightly offbeat campaign.
Rosemary Myers's charming offbeat fantasia, "Girl Asleep," offers a giddy approximation.
People were willing to give weirder, more offbeat things a chance.
Browse Witchsy's full range of offbeat art wares on their website.
He inspired me with his offbeat curiosity and penchant for serendipity.
Visitors seem to thrive on the offbeat creativity of the setup.
Jimmy Fallon culled hilarious and offbeat screen captures from his audience.
O'Brien wasn't the only regular cast member with flawlessly offbeat style.
And, oh God, what if you are not even so offbeat?
"I like that offbeat, mismatched kind of stuff," Becky Voyce said.
And in some respects, that's sufficient for satisfyingly offbeat, lurid entertainment.
"I love that Flo has an offbeat sense of humor," she said.
Deadpool's humor is that offbeat-ness, but specific to the superhero genre.
"Nothing matches and everything feels whimsical and sort of offbeat," says Röhm.
Occasionally, the dialogue is amusing, with its offbeat lurches in unexpected directions.
Some of the more offbeat names, however, do tie into their sectors.
Dating from 1958-83, they range from offbeat abstractions to hallucinogenic allegories.
Dating from 1958-13, they range from offbeat abstractions to hallucinogenic allegories.
But they also come for the diverse clientele and the offbeat staff.
Last weekend she came up with another excellent and typically offbeat one.
It's an ideal gift for the offbeat office supplies and stationery lover.
Jammy spoon sweets come in offbeat flavors like bergamot and sour cherry.
"That's how I got the job here, the offbeat stuff," Horwitz said.
A better, if offbeat, choice is Dr. Bronner's Pure-Castile Liquid Soap.
K-Swiss, on the other hand, continues to look towards offbeat demographics.
He dispenses offbeat facts as if they were canapés on a tray.
"The Ninja people were all offbeat and not glamour kids," he recalls.
SM: I think for the most part Eat Offbeat has been celebrated.
Alexander Payne, the director of Sideways, has another offbeat comedy on the way.
But in Rodarte, Ms. Leigh has found the offbeat counterpart to his silhouettes.
Sometimes it's the more offbeat questions that prompt the best answers from politicians.
We've already covered what to watch if you want something emotional or offbeat.
A small group of bacchanalians started opening offbeat organic wine bars across Paris.
The offbeat beauty decision wasn't the only way the model eschewed seasonal trends.
Dive deeper and you're sure to find something even more offbeat and unexpected.
It isn't trying to be twee or deliberately offbeat—that's not Cruz's aim.
This controller is offbeat in color, but much cheaper than the normal price.
Both tracks share a similar offbeat synth, steady, stomping pace and massive vocal.
Last year, a catering company called Eat Offbeat launched in New York City.
Nintendo's offbeat Paper Mario series is returning to home consoles later this year.
But now Albertalli is back with a new book: Leah on the Offbeat.
Dating from 1958 to 1983, they range from offbeat abstractions to hallucinogenic allegories.
Grosjean's quarry: an offbeat version of craps played with cards instead of dice.
"The Lobster" is an offbeat romantic comedy from the director of "The Favourite."
Dating from 1958 to 2123, they range from offbeat abstractions to hallucinogenic allegories.
Many little touches in the film reflect the offbeat hand of Ms. Delpy.
But of a piece with Bozon's offbeat oeuvre (La France, Tip-Top), Mrs.
As offbeat as it sounds, he's not the first to make these claims.
But she risks being seen as out-of-touch, too intellectual and offbeat.
Rachel Kaufman explores an offbeat idea that is provoking heated debate among ecologists.
This wily, offbeat group features four woodwinds, two cellos, viola, bass and drums.
At the Roosevelt, he displayed the offbeat humor that laces his judicial opinions.
There's a third layer, deeply hidden, a mutual appreciation for offbeat dance music.
Eat Offbeat is a catering kitchen that offers much-needed employment to refugees.
That's because, for all its offbeat aura, Ojanen's work is filled with soul.
The Hyundai Kona has a funky name, offbeat styling and a pint size package.
Though the museum appreciated the gifts, it deemed them too offbeat for public display.
Below, find our favorite offbeat pre-Marvel roles from the cast of Infinity War.
I can easily say I had such high expectations for Leah on the Offbeat.
What sort of engagement ring befits one of Bachelor Nation's more offbeat romantic duos?
It's the furthest away, but the playful pours and offbeat theming is worth it.
The IRC runs Spice Kitchen and offers help to Eat Offbeat, which is private.
But it is more than an extended summer camp for posh, offbeat clever-clogs.
I do find it sort of good-looking in an offbeat sort of way.
The 19 musical selections included a smattering of favorite arias, but also offbeat repertory.
Genre: Offbeat workplace comedy Commitment: Two seasons, with 222 half-hour-long episodes total.
Several quirky choices and offbeat moments dot the film, as does some bitter humor.
"The women Peterson photographed were offbeat, eccentric, irreverent, and not conventionally pretty," she wrote.
This is a good choice for viewers with a more offbeat sense of humor.
He promoted an offbeat corporate culture derided for sometimes emphasizing drinking beer and tequila.
Many other hotels are offering curated services that are equally hyper-focused and offbeat.
But it was hard to find novels that fit with the imprint's offbeat brand.
In a sense Mr. Amram is the perfect avatar of the club's offbeat ecumenicalism.
Eat Offbeat takes something that makes refugees different and turns it into a strength.
For the offbeat mom: Awkward family photos Bonus to this idea: It costs basically nothing.
But the next chapter in Carney's offbeat rock musical trilogy stands to be another smash.
The music video is something that seeks to match that in visual, if offbeat, form.
It would allow them to create some of the greatest offbeat moments in Simpsons history.
The show's offbeat storytelling rhythms and antiheroic main character spread across the vast televisual landscape.
Where Barthes's photographs are captioned and faithfully reproduced, Sebald's photographs have a fugitive, offbeat atmosphere.
Today, some of its more offbeat up-and-comers will have a chance to shine.
The latter is unapologetically offbeat in every way — most scenes take place in the dark.
But her offbeat sense of humor offended a lot of people on the internet today.
The offbeat Marvel comics story from Fox has a cumulative estimated gross of $341 million.
Take, for example, this season's trendiest offbeat play: the halfback or wide receiver option pass.
I'd love to hear about the offbeat ways you're using foodstuffs in homekeeping and laundry!
I had "oddball" for OFFBEAT, my only misdirect, and really loved the clue for EMERGENT.
I wish I could quote all of the jokes and recount the best offbeat bits.
As mentioned, it allows the Oscars to let some offbeat choices slip into the lineup.
Here's what you need to know if you have an offbeat donation you'd like to make.
Before Kimmel's on-stage tribute to Letterman, the entertainer recalled one of his favorite, offbeat moments.
They played married high school sweethearts Ed and Peggy on the darkly funny, offbeat crime drama.
But over time, the lack of controversy allowed LaBeouf to become an offbeat, endearing internet personality.
There were plenty of award-winning incidents and performers to fill up the Offbeat Awards, though.
By normalizing those offbeat desires, are you killing the driver for your market in a sense?
Dusty's name is definitely a little offbeat, but it's safe to say she will be loved.
I've really been enjoying the selection of offbeat, smaller films that Amazon picks up for Prime.
Offbeat and well-researched stories grab the attention (think of "S-Town", or "Making a Murderer").
But the results can be fun, if only because they're so offbeat and over the top.
Twelve years ago, she heard Pretor-Pinney talking about his offbeat society on BBC Radio 4.
Leah on the Offbeat Becky Albertalli You may know Becky Albertalli for her novel Simon vs.
Just when you thought cocktails couldn't get more offbeat, now they're putting ants in your drink.
Kimmy's offbeat ideas and gullible personality are only half of what make her character so enjoyable.
Plus, it hails from A24, an arthouse distributor with a reputation for cool and offbeat pictures.
John, on the other hand, looked like a grunge rocker-cum-offbeat-professor who'd discovered God.
The founder recounted Bezos explaining similarities between Amazon's acquisition of Woot and his offbeat breakfast order.
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She is the founder of F5 escapes, a travel company that helps women have "offbeat" experiences.
An originally offbeat presence in contemporary downtown theater, he also conveys an old-fashioned literary elegance.
The artist it's showing, Jess Collins (1923-2004), was always a downtowner in his offbeat soul.
What offbeat or unique interests do you have now, or did you have as a child?
The offbeat, candy-packed ice creams will get a tweak in texture, becoming creamier and smoother.
Market Report The offbeat style of 'TV Party,' hosted by Glenn O'Brien, still looks fresh today.
Waititi's work is well-regarded for its offbeat, dry humor, originality, and blessedly non-cheesy wholesomeness.
It is unusual to see multiple bubbles in offbeat asset classes so close to each other.
It would be sad if her quirkiness made people regard her as an offbeat dance eccentric.
A game like Heavy Rain could only have emerged from a mind as offbeat as Cage's.
The result is an appropriately gonzo tour through every offbeat transhumanist scenario Ellis can dream up.
There's Terminator pinball, offbeat Arnie artwork, and plenty of car-sized signage sporting his chiseled mug.
But fortunately for fans of offbeat names, the trend is only toward less weirdness, not no weirdness.
Marvel's offbeat superhero series Legion is unlike anything on television, from its design to its narrative style.
And if you ship him with Leah, you are not going to like LEAH ON THE OFFBEAT.
It's an offbeat way to shoot live events, or other creative shots like outfits of the day.
It's another effective Mad Max-style sequence, building on Jadis' cult-like ritualism and offbeat linguistic quirks.
Here are some offbeat ways to get out of the house in winter: • Take an icy dip.
It's also the kind of offbeat project that could only come together in a place like YouTube.
While similarly alert to offbeat sublimities, Shore is a New Yorker more receptive than marauding in attitude.
Such offbeat choices can exasperate concert promoters, but Rousset refuses to limit himself to brand-name masters.
Editorial Donald Trump's rallies once drew their share of benign conservatives, offbeat libertarians and plain curiosity seekers.
That's not necessarily to say these new offbeat devices will play a role in boosting industry sales.
When I was an editor at Time, we ended up doing an offbeat cover on cyberpunk culture.
There are family friendly comedies, romantic comedies, and a couple of offbeat musical comedies on the service.
The voice is wholly his own — dissonant, offbeat, whiplash, wry — even as it whispers to musics past.
It's an exploration of free will and fate carried out with director Terry Gilliam's typical offbeat sensibility.
Stevens and Ross strike asymmetrical chords on every offbeat, setting Smith up for a coolly drifting solo.
North Korea is a popular, if offbeat, tourist destination for Chinese, especially those from the country's northeast.
Taika Waititi ("What We Do in the Shadows") may bring an offbeat sensibility to this Marvel tentpole.
Fans of Crosley's signature humor — a blend of upbeat and offbeat self-effacement — will not be disappointed.
He also said the wall would have to be transparent, using an offbeat example to explain why.
In an offbeat "Avorio" paint job (Italian for "ivory") the already beautiful supercar gained even more fans.
Because what movie isn't more interesting with her offbeat, ever vulnerable and always magnetic kind of cool?
Now they've been reissued with wily new art by Sergio Ruzzier that perfectly suits their offbeat sensibility.
Highly recommended for fans of offbeat comics but who still need the occasional cameo from Spider-Man.
As Glover tells it, these offbeat moments are what we should already expect in our daily lives.
Cop Car, an offbeat crime film directed by Jon Watts and co-written by Watts and Christopher Ford.
Kasich has built some of his following on his reputation as a sincere (if somewhat offbeat) Christian conservative.
Generally, Up Lit books track quirky, offbeat protagonists on their journeys to creating a fulfilling web of relationships.
This is not the first time that an Indian airline has been reprimanded for offbeat in-flight entertainment.
But they've always been a little too offbeat when other phone makers offer emoji that mostly look similar.
It was Left Shark, a costumed backup dancer who won hearts with offbeat, out-of-sync dance moves.
We've compiled a list of the offbeat things that will make you want to watch the Nevada caucuses.
Rejali's employer at Eat OffBeat ultimately helped her navigate the paperwork and bills that came along with that.
And yet part of Stewart's appeal is her offbeat sense of humor and willingness to try new things.
Like any major institutional shift, the growing number of offbeat Best Picture nominees comes from several interconnected factors.
It's why for every season of Stranger Things, Netflix has a couple of offbeat TV shows and movies.
My sensibility is more Curb Your Enthusiasm—more offbeat, more alternative—whereas The Goldbergs is very much mainstream.
The author, Babette Cole, died earlier this year, but was known for tackling difficult topics in offbeat ways.
Louis Weiner, who worked alongside Gatenby at the time, recalls that their colleagues viewed Gatenby's ideas as offbeat.
For Lily, we decided to go with a more offbeat metallic copper shade that's both fun and unexpected.
She also posted music videos, in which she danced in trendy but offbeat outfits against computer-generated imagery.
For a taste of Amsterdam's more offbeat side, however, give some of these museums and attractions a try.
They've been churning out a steady stream of content to slake the offbeat thirst of Deadpool's cult following.
And "A Bread Factory" feels like the kind of offbeat film that might screen at the Bread Factory.
But despite the offbeat ingredients and colors, like green, it's the taste of the Gouda that comes through.
Tuesday night saw the return of Agent Carter, Marvel's delightful, offbeat spy show featuring the indomitable Hayley Atwell.
We found some offbeat events and a few over-the-top ways to welcome a fresh new year.
The Mercers became his devoted supporters after reading Access to Energy , an offbeat scientific newsletter that he writes.
Businesses that offer unconventional benefits are often warm and welcoming to workers who are a little offbeat themselves.
They're part of a tonal problem — what was mostly delicate and offbeat tips into something cruder and messier.
A24 saw an impressive opening for its offbeat "Swiss Army Men," starring Daniel Radcliffe, with $114,000 at three sites.
Last winter, the offbeat Fox comedy "The Last Man on Earth," created by and starring Will Forte, provided it.
Lady Gaga - The Fame Lady Gaga had a moment in the late 2000s as pop music's offbeat new leader.
Cave Theatre Co., a New York theatre company open to submissions from the public for offbeat and fresh plays.
The crude and sophomoric language of Advice Animals just can't compete with the offbeat and irreverent memes of today.
Seeking a more uniquely Jamaican sound, Prince Buster turned the popular rhythmic shuffle upside down by emphasising the offbeat.
The company denied it was doing anything nefarious other than releasing an offbeat elf bowling game into the wild.
I have always loved the sound of him laughing: soft and comfortable, understated, offbeat, with unmistakably sleek midcentury lines.
Sharjah positions itself as the offbeat brother to the slick commercial art market next door in far richer Dubai.
Few players of his era, or many others, embodied the offbeat pleasures of non-traditional athleticism as Danny Manning.
Backbeat: A bar with a great rooftop, Backbeat has their cocktails divided into three categories: upbeat, downbeat, and offbeat.
The Model 3 has plenty of trunk space — and an offbeat hatch design to enable that continuous glass roof.
He remakes the idea into his own fresh (in both the offbeat and impudent senses of the term) image.
Somewhat more offbeat was Karoo Kombuis — or Karoo Kitchen — which is in a simple cottage on a back street.
The installments range from an infuriating look at payday lending to an offbeat story about Canadian maple syrup cartels.
And when favorite teams and news are covered unevenly, the offbeat, unorthodox or outright bizarre features really stand out.
We like to go to local ethnic restaurants: Korean, Central American or Greek, offbeat hole-in-the-wall places.
Taika Waititi plays an imaginary Hitler in Jojo Rabbit, his extremely offbeat take on a World War II story.
This book is interesting because it offers a chance to witness this influential thinker grapple with more offbeat questions.
If you've seen any other episodes of Ms. Sedaris's newest show, you already know its offbeat brand of humor.
And then there are the more offbeat offerings: Britons learned on Friday, in the government's latest release, about Mrs.
What was the most touching moment you had while reporting on Eat Offbeat and speaking to the refugees there?
For instance, LootAnime's April theme is Quirky, celebrating the most unconventional and offbeat styles that modern anime has to offer.
It's a bright day in a city that's so millennial friendly, there's an entire offbeat cable comedy dedicated to it.
The couple are already parents to 2-year-old daughter Wyatt Isabelle, and are looking for a similarly offbeat name.
But as the show has progressed, Russell has learned to appreciate Elizabeth's disguises that are less sexy and more offbeat.
And unlike a lot of JRPGs, which often balance tense, emotional scenes with quirky, offbeat moments, Lost Sphear remains solemn.
Chi-Raq, an offbeat adaptation of Aristophanes' ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata, directed by Spike Lee and scripted by Kevin Willmott.
" Del Toro, 53, is known for making both mainstream action movies like "Hellboy" and offbeat dark fantasies like "Pan's Labyrinth.
That specificity is a distinct advantage Select Start has over its competitors, as the store is packed with offbeat memorabilia.
Popcorn Frights Film Festival gives South Florida residents a rare chance to catch offbeat genre fare on a big screen.
" Del Toro, 53, is known for making both mainstream action movies like "Hellboy" and offbeat dark fantasies like "Pan's Labyrinth.
Ecstatically received during its festival run, The Lobster is reportedly offbeat, hilarious, and kind of terrifying, especially for single people.
In Kimmy's case, the team decided it was ultimately best to lean into her history of being quirky and offbeat.
The New York Times Magazine asks a selection of its readers offbeat questions, but each edition discloses the unscientific methodology.
You haven't gotten your fill of offbeat theater at the New York International Fringe Festival, which ends Sunday, Aug. 28?
Little wonder, then, that I ended up turning to a mix of expertly inventive genre games and offbeat narrative experiences.
The city she loved was becoming mean, its offbeat characters fading away to sleeker streets with higher real estate values.
But some Democrats say she runs the risk of being seen as out of touch and too intellectual and offbeat.
So there's an a-tempo [offbeat, without tempo] to the formulation of his thoughts that reveals a number of things.
On the other hand, if a story is light or offbeat, you don't want a headline that's stiff or boring.
Werber, known for his offbeat, intricate floral headpieces, aimed to create a space that felt "like the jungle," he said.
The offbeat pop opera "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" earned 12 Tony nominations, more than any other show.
Throughout, though, her writing is bracing, as full of humour and whimsy, sex and creepiness as in her offbeat stories.
What if you are a sensitive and offbeat soul, determined to be an artist, but suspect you have no talent?
This year, Times reporters filed 270 "dispatches" — our features that offer offbeat cultural insights — from 20203 countries across six continents.
What are the most interesting or offbeat ways you've found to fight stress or make yourself feel happy and healthy?
There are some offbeat — some might say flaky — positions that advocates say could come about only during a constitutional convention.
Brendan Emmett Quigley, who contributes to The New York Times Crossword, has a successful indie website for his offbeat puzzles.
I was more interested in the first episode being about power than just the sort of something weird or offbeat.
Starting in 1955, he searched for offbeat, often unknown talents with original ideas for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories.
And not really her character so much as something she did — something personal, offbeat, radical, and in my case salvational.
He's an offbeat, lonely, orphaned boy awash in a big, empty house who's always longed above all for a family.
The same applies to "Private Idaho" and "Mesopotamia," the offbeat title track from a 2842 EP produced by David Byrne.
But I also had time to see the offbeat dark comedy I don't feel at home in this world anymore.
She explained that daily reporting was exciting but not fulfilling because the constant pace left her unable to chase offbeat stories.
According to astrologer Annie Heese, you're probably a little, shall we say, offbeat if you were born under a Mercury retrograde.
The players used offbeat strategies — the sort that wouldn't faze a human opponent, but which the AI had never seen before.
The syncopation, on the offbeat, creates a clave rhythm that really brings out that Latin/tropical flavour that Bieber probably wants.
If there were anyone else at the helm, these would sound like some pretty offbeat ingredients for a successful superhero series.
That's why I teamed up with Weber to dream up some offbeat animations that will drive home exactly how it's done.
Along with a few offbeat choices like Mac DeMarco and Tori Amos that might help your dad get into something new.
Visit our Extra Mustard Page throughout each day for more offbeat sports stories and the latest Cheerleader of the Week gallery.
But on weekends from May through October the offbeat resort is offering guests the opportunity to go wine tasting by helicopter.
In Taiwan, batteries can be swapped at kiosks found at gas stations and more offbeat locations, including retail stores and cafes.
According to the site Offbeat Bride, Nicole and Santiago chose to wed where Nicole's mother's ashes were scattered in the sea.
Laemmle also sought out literary Europeans like Stefan Zweig for material, and allowed an offbeat director like James Whale to flourish.
Instead of surreptitiously fictionalizing his story of the rise of early Christianity, he proceeds like a freelance—and slightly offbeat—scholar.
Germaine, the eldest (at 15) of an offbeat brood in the British West Midlands, is a hormone bomb in perpetual explosion.
The character is often imagined responding to the day's headlines, as Mr. Ellickson offers comedic insight into the candidate's offbeat behavior.
As an LA native, he believes his hometown is an ideal place to expand one's creativity with offbeat projects like his.
But in the past few years, there's been a major push by activists to declassify offbeat behaviors like ABR as disorders.
We're sure Husselbee will find an offbeat outfit to wear so he can say goodbye to high school with a bang.
This female-led take on film noir — which sports a whimsical sea shanty score — is both wickedly entertaining and refreshingly offbeat.
At the time, Miramax was becoming a superpower in the art film business by turning offbeat, inexpensive movies into mainstream hits.
" You can catch "Training Day" on Netflix, which also features his excellent work in Spike Lee's offbeat 2006 thriller, "Inside Man.
Morse's offbeat, almost psychedelic color schemes hum with a radiation glow not unlike that of fellow eco-surrealist Alexis Rockman's canvases.
And Dwyer and Gazin's bet on offbeat art wares has paid off: Witchsy turned a profit in only its first quarter.
It is not a dirge or a Bukowski-like scratching of the groin but an offbeat and plaintive hymn to life.
The director also brought an offbeat sense of humor to some scenes, providing occasional relief from the solemnity of the proceedings.
Forsythe ("The Gold Leaf") has a smoky, offbeat illustration style that adds a jazzy visual heft to the story's classic feel.
Her namesake line is inspired by her posse of cool girlfriends, who will surely take to the offbeat, slightly retro chompers.
And Roku still has Fandor, the cinephile-oriented site I recently described as a fun rabbit hole of offbeat world cinema.
IT. And as offbeat a character as she is, Mamacita will have a significant influence to exert as the story unfolds.
He had a quirky curiosity that led him to ask offbeat questions, whose answers he extracted from the numbers he kept.
For example, the answer to "Blue jays," is JASMINE AND JEANS, which, on the surface, sounds like a somewhat offbeat perfume.
The drummer Jamire Williams alternated between being a perfect metronome to playing offbeat so vigorously he nearly fell off his stool.
New York's New Directors/New Films festival is a post-awards-season opportunity to catch offbeat films you might've missed elsewhere.
That ad was thrilling because it was offbeat and surreal, and most women could relate to the heroine's urge to escape convention.
DataRobot just hired a new chief operating officer with sort of an offbeat background: he once led another hot startup's "almost" IPO.  
In de-centering our human perspective, the soil narratives approach the study of science and of history from an offbeat, creative angle.
Even the more offbeat upper-crust actors, the Dustin Hoffmans of the world, have had a sly charm that reels audiences in.
The offbeat wedding didn't phase the two, who in civilian life work at a hospital and are students at Florida State College.
Rather, as a band like Fond of Tigers handily shows, the genre also has the potential to be progressive, offbeat, and unexpected.
Now, Eat Offbeat is creating a cookbook with all those same goals in mind, and anyone can help bring it to life.
The biggest threat to an Inside Out win was Anomalisa, an offbeat, stop-motion drama/comedy from Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson.
"What I most remember is his ability to take chances and do some offbeat things," said Levenson, who is now a lawyer.
Often astringent and deliberately metronomic, these are not the prettiest Haydn recordings, but they are full of sly touches and offbeat choices.
Perhaps the most offbeat choreographer in American ballet, Mr. McIntyre, who often employs pop or rock music, is now in top form.
Parker Posey is known for being quirky, but her offbeat sense of humor offended a lot of people on the internet today.
The L.A. Phil's offbeat ventures are well and good, you sometimes hear people in the classical world mutter, but how's its Beethoven ?
" Mr. Kennedy, though, tried to draw her out with a string of offbeat questions: "Tell me about your major disappointment in life.
She was painting wet-into-wet, often beginning with a ground of abstract brushstrokes from which she teased out her offbeat images.
Anyone with a taste for such offbeat adornment probably has to find a retailer whose supplier sources stones on the secondary market.
And his advisers repeatedly explored and then disavowed some offbeat or daring plans, including announcing a running mate early in his campaign.
"I liked that record 'cause I heard it by Louis Armstrong and I said, 'That number gonna fit me,' " he told Offbeat.
In Netflix's new offbeat superhero show I Am Not Okay With This, Sydney (Sophia Lillis) discovers that she has alarmingly strong superpowers.
A supper catered by Eat Offbeat, a company that employs refugee women as cooks, is an option for the intermission between shows.
Dean plays this curious villain with a stylized spookiness — a sly sort of offbeat languor and slur of language — that concentrates spite.
But look beyond the well-tailored suits and you'll find something even more notable: Fortnite's offbeat personality is back in full force.
Seth Meyers returned from vacation on Monday and quickly caught up with President Trump's most offbeat statements from the past two weeks.
But he said more advanced radar and camera systems could solve the problem without the need for more expensive or offbeat technology.
It's a tipsy style that demanded a willingness, on the part of the rappers he worked with, to sound slightly offbeat themselves.
That chummy persistence serves him well in "My Scientology Movie," an offbeat attempt to illuminate the church's psychological grip on its members.
Just like Guardians did in 2014, Doctor Strange makes a strong case for exploring the more offbeat corners of the Marvel universe.
" Mr. Stark, who worked most recently for ESPN, added: "He would research anything, no matter how wacky, offbeat or esoteric it was.
Instead, some companies opt for slightly more offbeat interview questions that seemingly don't have anything to do with the job being offered.
Gabriel and Hulskamp's will be staging improvisational performances at the festival, moving through spaces like living sculptures; specters with offbeat sartorial sensibilities.
Summer of Screamo is a month-long, weekly column spotlighting new, recent, and upcoming releases in screamo, emoviolence, and generally offbeat hardcore.
As Ezekiel's new right-hand man, he is funny, offbeat, happy-go-lucky, and perhaps not the brightest bulb in the pack — i.e.
Netflix's title page for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch describes it as "mind-bending, offbeat, and cerebral," and the trailer certainly teases all those elements.
Boback flew Wallace in for an interview, and was struck by his offbeat manner, but he reasoned that this was common in cybersecurity.
When she first came to live with us, she was 220, with dimples, gobs of curly hair, and an offbeat sense of humor.
The long afterlife of the offbeat 2014 action thriller John Wick has been one of the more cheering developments of recent popular culture.
Seemingly allergic to lyrical clichés, this singer writes offbeat, often jarringly forthright songs about the complex contours of love, sexuality and mental illness.
THE narrator of this offbeat whodunnit describes herself and her fellow misfits as "the sort of people whom the world regards as useless".
Her star persona is consistent with our best views of ourselves: a little offbeat, whip-smart, and unafraid to take shit from anyone.
One such reinvention is "offbeat luxury" that promises the traveler all the worldly pleasures along with a never-before-seen type of experience.
While the offbeat is catching on and concepts like glamping have grown more successful, the backbone of any destination is its hotel infrastructure.
The popular décor destination, known for its huge selection of affordable (and occasionally offbeat) finds, is a favorite resource of any budget decorator.
Meaning fans are surely in for a lot more of those offbeat, no-nonsense tales about previous her life outside of Litchfield's walls.
It mostly screens offbeat old films, and all tickets cost $8, which sounds expensive, but is legitimately a bargain in New York City.
Despite the at-times hostile context, Eat Offbeat has found success through its tantalizing tastes and hard work, said co-founder Wissam Kahi.
Buttons make up 80% of her collection, but she has plenty of more offbeat items, too — including 10 custom puppets modeled after Sanders.
Dry and offbeat, with an immediate, original voice, this comedy is a back-roads drive through the expansive territory between rags and riches.
But sometimes, in the middle of the madness, an offbeat trend catches the same wave, bringing a few of our favorite celebrities together.
For offbeat white-gold drop earrings, he paired pearls bought more than 10 years apart: one light brown and gray, the other whitish.
But because "Good Girls" has an offbeat tone — and airs on a broadcast network — you get the feeling that the guardrails are up.
But she wanted to combine them with more offbeat, seamy and overshadowed city stories when she founded Renegade Stl tours six years ago.
Chances are good that I'm not going to encounter as offbeat an exercise in art-as-history in any other museum anywhere soon.
"Back then I used to play everybody's records; everybody's records who made records," he told the New Orleans music magazine Offbeat in 2004.
Beyond the meritocratic inventory system, Desert Island proselytizes offbeat creativity through its annual fall festival, Comic Arts Brooklyn, together with the Pratt Institute.
" Manal Kahi, a founder of Eat Offbeat, a New York City catering company staffed with refugees, said of her employees: "They are chefs.
"We always found ourselves wishing for more space on 'Gilmore' to do the offbeat things or the diversionary side stories," Mr. Palladino said.
So just to throw a couple of drum hits in there that are offbeat, I think there was a benefit to it there.
Goichi "Suda51" Suda is a well-known video game designer who has built up a reputation for delivering quirky and offbeat video games.
For me, his offbeat artwork is reminiscent of the best French poster art from between the world wars — artists like Villemot or Savignac.
Lincoln Road's time as an offbeat shopping burg is long gone, now submerged in a sea of chain stores and tourist-trap restaurants.
" Then he veered straight into edgy, offbeat comedy as one of the two warring high school administrators at the center of "Vice Principals.
The same is true for Mont, an offbeat playwright, who's self-assured and courageous in a way that doesn't cling to gender norms.
People are saying she shouldn't be singing on the hook and that she's offbeat, but honestly that's apart of what I love about Cardi.
The eccentric, offbeat team T-shirts are designed by die-hard fans and experienced designers who have been selling on Teespring for a while.
In nearly 30 in-depth interviews, voters in these economically depressed areas shared an unmistakable fascination with Trump and Sanders and their offbeat candidacies.
Mr. Stern, who had a reputation for giving parks offbeat names, said he believed a later commissioner had found the name a bit frightening.
As with other Hunt books, the content is tightly focused on eating, shopping and activities — a mix of offbeat gems and hip newcomers. $12.
Over the past few years, he (much like his former co-star Kristen Stewart) has quietly built up a resume of intriguingly offbeat work.
Every frame of this quirky and offbeat platformer was drawn by hand and animated with traditional cel animation, and all that painstaking work shows.
Eat Offbeat employs refugees from around the world to cook their own family recipes and deliver the meals to customers in New York City.
It mostly screens offbeat old films, and... For a quarter of a century, I willfully deceived myself into believing that hair care was simple.
Sexually, his chart indicates that he is likely dominant, and his Mars in brainy and offbeat Aquarius probably means he's also a little kinky.
In the 1960s, they became an offbeat performance hall for artists like the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, the Kinks, Pink Floyd and the Who.
Much like Tarantino's other films, "Jackie Brown" features a heist-centered plot, and plenty of violence, all combined with the director's signature, offbeat humor.
Seasons: 1Episodes: 6Fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's series "Fleabag" won't want to miss out on "Crashing," another offbeat comedy that also stars Waller-Bridge.
Jürg Wyss and Mike Glauser, founders of the offbeat cheese chain Jumi, made a name for themselves in their homeland of Switzerland long ago.
And "Smithereens" centers on a rideshare-enabled kidnapping that also brings up questions about the power of social media companies and offbeat tech executives.
It was one of an increasingly rare breed of spaces that welcomed performers of many stripes, united only by an affinity for the offbeat.
A jaunt that would be portrayed as child abandonment had a woman done it "could help him politically, advancing his offbeat brand," reporters mused.
Yet it is precisely the kind of offbeat, hallucinatory and essential project that also requires a deeply attuned but independent force to bring about.
My job is to shed light on the world's offbeat and often misunderstood communities and subcultures, and that necessarily means stepping outside what's familiar.
Ms. Huppert plays the powerhouse figure in a multigenerational family that's falling apart, a dominatrix role she imbues with moments of delectable offbeat comedy.
The troupe first won acclaim for its offbeat and unpredictable TV sketch show "Monty Python's Flying Circus," which ran for five years until 19633.
The play on words, combined with Mr. Walken's offbeat delivery, gave Bai a hit, but it also risked locking the brand into an identity.
The company's Super Bowl commercials have historically been a little offbeat, but the best word I can use to describe this year's is disconcerting.
The offbeat pop opera "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" led the pack in nominations, including one for Josh Groban's Broadway debut.
Mr. Riegel's youngest brother, Hank Riegel, of Waterloo, N.Y., called Mr. McDonald's method of ash scattering appropriate, given his brother's offbeat outlook on life.
If you favor the world of base jumpers over Khaleesi, here's a roundup of the best offbeat sports documentaries on Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Her alternative views have mixed with her surreal, offbeat sense of humor to help instigate the discussion about death that she has longed for.
Experts say there are real risks to workers trying to expense something offbeat or expensive, or pass off personal expenses as something related to work.
Albertalli wrote a sequel to the book, titled Leah on the Offbeat, which is told from the perspective of Katherine Langford's character in the film.
SRR: Vaporwave and A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.C. are part of an offbeat art and music movement that speaks to a vision of a future that is now obsolete.
It's been years since we've had a new game from Simogo, the small Swedish studio behind offbeat hits like Device 6 and The Sailor's Dream.
One of the things about Kate is that her performances, and her dynamics with different people, end up being incredibly specific and often very offbeat.
Offbeat venues and quirky destinations have come in vogue in recent years, said Diane Gottsman, etiquette expert and founder of the Protocol School of Texas.
The guys close out the show by revisiting a listener-suggested movie: the offbeat 2014 comedy Frank, directed by Lenny Ambrahamson and starring Michael Fassbender.
Spielberg penned the original story, hand-selected director Richard Donner and hired Chris Columbus (who had written the 1983 "Gremlins") to do the offbeat screenplay.
With Eat Offbeat: The Cookbook, you'll be able to cook foods from Nepal to Syria, Algeria to Venezuela, and learn a lot along the way.
Given that your first two soundtracks were this and Silent Running, do you think you're more attracted to the sort of offbeat kind of soundtracks?
Art Reviews American Folk Art Museum hosts outsider art; Heidi Jahnke's offbeat paintings; a group show on contemporary Muslim art; and Jessica Eaton's mesmerizing photographs.
Some critics and audiences will be happy to tune into the freshly renewed show, as they widely praised the series' dark humor and offbeat tone.
This weekend, we recommend watching the classic 1994 Tarantino movie "Pulp Fiction," and "The Lobster," the 2015 offbeat comedy from "The Favourite" director Yorgos Lanthimos.
Catherine Bell outlines it in her book Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, but when I stumbled on it again it was in the blog Offbeat Bride.
Pursuits In a lifetime of offbeat travel experiences, searching for mating sage grouse in a snow squall may rank as one of my oddest pursuits.
" It provides a sense of this novel's offbeat comedy to print Bateman's response to this: "'It was the Waldorf salad, Evelyn,' I say, teeth clenched.
He wrote about men moving through the woods and sometimes across the country, on offbeat personal missions or on the run from heartbreak or misfortune.
Last month this offbeat real estate show on the FYI network began its third season of cramming homeowners into trailers, bungalows and other mini abodes.
In 2004, the artist, Jeanette Hayes, started using Google and offbeat German and Japanese search engines to look for pictures she had never seen before.
But first I stopped at J.R. Crickets, the Midtown wing shack that had a memorable cameo last year in "Atlanta," Donald Glover's offbeat FX comedy.
Rather than fall back on citrus smells that are common to organic beauty, the Austins incorporate more complex, offbeat notes such as vetiver and petitgrain.
While there, you'll want to drop by the Fondazione Prada, which does the kind of offbeat exhibitions no one else ever thinks of or dares.
Kucinich, a Cleveland politician and former mayor, gained national attention for his liberal positions and outspoken anti-war message, as well as his offbeat style.
Things got really weird for a time — some of my watches had time displays so offbeat, it was tough to tell the time at all.
But Dotory, a four-year-old Korean restaurant at No. 353 that is popular for its food and offbeat décor, hints at changes to come.
A year later he took over her space and opened the Jack Tilton Gallery (later the Tilton Gallery), determined to pursue his own offbeat course.
Well, thanks to the internet, "there's an advent calendar for that," is now a bonafide thing — and we have the offbeat picks to prove it.
Not only do they involve offbeat flavors, but some are dusted with assorted seeds, and others, like the one made with coffee, are particularly fragrant.
"Many little touches in the film reflect the offbeat hand of Ms. Delpy," Nicolas Rapold wrote in The Times of this farce, which she directed.
Such was the case at the Gotham Independent Film Awards when she slipped into an offbeat white lace cocktail dress with a sequin floral motif.
In "Don't Worry," based on Callahan's memoir, the director Gus Van Sant also finds biting wit and brings an airy sweetness to this offbeat tale.
Totally offbeat and a little intimidating is a good way to describe this activity – and it just so happens to perfectly describe the One Direction star.
Here are some (startlingly real) offbeat shows to begin with: No one will recognize these obscure programs, but their Mad Libs nature is precisely your point.
Offbeat Bride founder Ariel Meadow Stallings agrees that women proposing to men is becoming more common, and she attributes the rise in part to marriage equality.
One series called Un-Current Events featured a camouflage hat–wearing "alternative fact analyst" named Alabama Boss, who joked each week about offbeat human interest stories.
It also isn't made by Instagram, but rather by one of a cadre of designers whose offbeat tastes are changing the reigning aesthetic of face filters.
Before the series, Weiss had written the offbeat, semi-satirical 2003 novel Lucky Wander Boy, but he had never had his name on any produced screenplay.
A multipart documentary about his musical career is running on Dutch television, and while he was still a violinist he appeared in an offbeat Audi commercial.
Channing, the saucer-eyed, gravelly voiced Broadway barnstormer whose offbeat personality and marquee value fueled such Golden Age musicals as Gentleman Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly!
" By the spring of 2011, they were selling their offbeat ice cream at local art festivals and block parties, using a tricycle dubbed "Flavor Blaster One.
But that's not all: They're also picking up on real-life (albeit slightly offbeat) events and making them go truly lit — at least on the internet.
According to the Kickstarter page for Eat Offbeat: The Cookbook, the book will feature 80 recipes from over 20 chefs who also happen to be refugees.
Now her happiness returns, she says, when she prepares traditional specialties for Eat Offbeat, a New York food company where refugees make and deliver ethnic fare.
Some offbeat venues, like barns and warehouses, are being renovated to include those amenities, now that the rustic and industrial look is on trend for weddings.
The comedy series follows the band as they travel the world — to Australia, Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Vietnam — to collaborate with offbeat musicians.
It sets us up for what would be the most offbeat chapter of the MCU to date — while also advancing the Infinity Stone plot forward. Honestly?
Simple and versatile basics may form the foundation of your closet, but it's always the offbeat and slightly quirky items that are more exciting to wear.
Nowadays, Celonis, which uses AI to help businesses evaluate and fix IT processes, doesn&apost have to worry too much about using offbeat cost-cutting tricks.
Our intrepid correspondent tried his luck at catching, as part of our new series of short, offbeat tales from around the U.S. • Recipe of the day.
That summer came a reading at the Atlantic Theater Company, an Off Broadway nonprofit that had previously nurtured "Spring Awakening," another seemingly offbeat musical that clicked.
Taking heed of Elbaz's advice, she added athletic details to '50s-inspired silhouettes and utilized an offbeat palette of canary yellow, soft pink and ice blue.
The guitar parts keep stacking up: a few offbeat chords, then a fast picking pattern, then a hefty chorus as power chords and countermelodies pile on.
Chazelle "has an aficionado's ear for jazz and an offbeat sense of genre," A. O. Scott wrote in his review of the film for The Times.
In this environment, Parker and Stone were genuine underdogs, two young guys fresh out of film school making an offbeat cartoon for a fledgling comedy network.
The video matches—while Brockhampton's signature offbeat visuals remain, there's a much darker tone than usual, via creepy looking girls and quite a lot of blood.
Major events (wars, public ceremonies, assassinations, elections) blend with private joys and griefs, and with offbeat assertions, wild boasts, intimate details and moments of unforced lyricism.
If you examine The Times's sports section over a long period, it's noticeable that two coverage areas aren't approached with the same affection for the offbeat.
Although the text version is an interesting, if curiously structured, work, the audiobook allows Bell a more apt platform for his offbeat intelligence and idiosyncratic voice.
Some spectators roasted the Cybertruck&aposs design on Twitter, comparing the truck&aposs sharp angles and offbeat look to poorly rendered video game graphics and cartoons.
I've been a fan of Mary Roach's books on science's unusual and curious applications since "Stiff" — she'd ask offbeat questions and tell hilarious yet informative stories.
Elsewhere was opened last fall by the team who used to run Glasslands Gallery, one of the great music venues from when Williamsburg was still offbeat.
S.U.V.s line the parking lot of Lomita, a funky winery with murals by the Mexico City artist Jorge Tellaeche and offbeat knickknacks like an orange chandelier.
Luckily, the latest entry in the "Kids On" series is here to answer this question, by consulting with the offbeat wisdom that only kids can provide.
Many were offbeat: a wry look at tourists gawking up at skyscrapers in Manhattan, a plan to resurrect a South Dakota ghost town by installing Indians.
You'll find a mix of unique tea-length options, classic gowns, and some more offbeat looks as well, with prices ranging between just $20 (!!) and $175.
This film, too, with its vivid biographical details, characteristically offbeat humor, and ponderous sequences of studio activity, seems destined to become an essential piece of Lynchelia.
Twin Peaks has its fair share of comedic, offbeat moments that go nowhere and are completely endearing, or that go nowhere and are eye roll-inducingly boring.
Some of Microsoft's more offbeat perks include physician house calls in the Seattle area, up to $9,000 in 401(k) contributions and sports equipment to check out.
Somehow, she's found time to produce one of the most moving, hilarious, offbeat, devastating, and sexy (yes, the hot priest was sexy) seasons of television ever made.
The difference in the more recent work is that the offbeat performance gestures take place as part of a larger, more developed project rather than discrete events.
Part of that new category expansion also includes a new "unique" category for mobile homes, tree houses, and other strange, offbeat accommodations Airbnb invites to its platform.
Though the Alphonso almost survived, it was an offbeat Mulgoba that just happened to make it in Floridian conditions, and so we're stuck with its lame descendants.
Nearly a decade later, it is clear that the trendy trucks—known for offbeat dishes, low prices and clever use of social media—are here to stay.
Opening with a simple—if slightly offbeat—piano riff, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this was regular balladeering territory, but that would not be very Petal.
But coupled with The OA's rousing score and the nearly believable narrative, the gestures, which look like the contents of an offbeat interpretive dance performance, seem inspiring.
Crocs, the clunky, foam clog that made its debut in 2002, has fallen on hard times of late, but one offbeat indicator may signal better days ahead.
Carol Channing, the saucer-eyed, gravelly voiced Broadway barnstormer whose offbeat personality and marquee value fueled such Golden Age musicals as Gentleman Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly!
If you've been following Detroit based rapper and producer Quelle Chris for very long, you're well aware of his penchant for offbeat bars and ear-grabbing production.
As offbeat and low-simmering as Hereditary, Na Hong-jin's 2016 South Korean horror film The Wailing is a solid complementary film, though the narrative is dissimilar.
But that characteristic is part of what has made Tumblr uniquely quirky and offbeat among social media spaces — and it may be the trait that saves it.
The maverick Mr. Samaras, now 79, went on to forge a singular, nearly 60-year career of eccentric invention and offbeat imagination in painting, sculpture and photography.
Together they appeared in classics by Shaw and Chekhov; in dramas by Tennessee Williams and Eugène Ionesco; and, perhaps most notably, in offbeat comedies by Murray Schisgal.
And as many of these companies now look to go public, they're finding that an offbeat founder CEO is not always a selling point during a roadshow.
Now more of an offbeat bar with peeling paint, mismatched chairs and a disco ball, its local D.J.s cater to Krymska Street's late-night, hard-partying crowd.
Since his Hugo nomination (he didn't win), Mr. Tingle has used Twitter to promote acceptance of diversity, and to lob offbeat but impassioned criticisms at Donald Trump.
Carol Channing, the saucer-eyed, gravelly voiced Broadway barnstormer whose offbeat personality and marquee value fueled such Golden Age musicals as Gentleman Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly!
The stress could just as easily fall on the offbeat through the verses, and a second guitar definitely comes in early with some high-up staccato chords.
Now 257, the Australian-born Mr. Griffiths has never lost that wacky, offbeat edge — and ability to push the boundaries of good taste — that defines his work.
The idea of a government soliciting bids to build a physical barrier dividing nations ignited fraught conversations among many of them and led to some offbeat ideas.
Exactly how has A24, an offbeat, 55-person company named after an Italian highway, managed to get tough customers like Mr. Rudin eating out of its hand?
In the United States, Nasrin missed cooking professionally until last March, right around Nowruz, the Persian new year, when she started a new job at Eat Offbeat.
Brand-new streaming platform Quibi will launch next month, and its first wave of original content features some of the most offbeat series that you've ever encountered.
Just outside town, Rick Arnt and his wife, Lois Amos, operate their delightfully offbeat bed-and-breakfast, the Country River Inn, housed in the old Fayetteville schoolhouse.
The single-panel comic, which ran until Larson, now 69, retired in 1995, featured men, women, children, animals and insects in often offbeat and sometimes inscrutable situations.
He maintains an interest in offbeat diseases, such as one that makes some people scratch constantly and one that causes the human skin to easily rub off.
Mimi's at midnight resembles those parties you used to hear about in New York, rowdy affairs of offbeat regulars for whom last call always seems far away.
Doom, the 1993 game that laid the groundwork for the first-person shooter genre, wasn't supposed to lead to the birth of offbeat, experimental games prioritizing exploration.
Juri's presence has a far more subtle effect on the narrative and the family, which itself suggests that there's more to it than quirks and offbeat personalities.
In other offbeat N.H.L. trade-deadline news, Mikael Granlund was sent from the Minnesota Wild to the Nashville Predators on Monday while his partner was in labor.
When a friend told me about Eat Offbeat, the concept immediately caught my attention—people from across the world who find a way to connect through cooking?
Here, Mr. Alhanoun found familiar work in restaurants, and he eventually became a cook at Eat Offbeat, a catering company that hires professional cooks who are also refugees.
His former boss — Texas A&M Coach Gary Blair — has an offbeat theory about why Schaefer finally took the helm of the Mississippi State women's team in 2000.
Ultraviolet (NETFLIX ORIGINAL): In this offbeat crime series, an online community of amateur sleuths uses an unconventional mashup of high-tech and low-tech methods to solve cases.
Like another early-70s Eastwood oater, the similarly underrated High Plains Drifter, The Beguiled initially presents itself as one thing only to reveal something more offbeat and unsettling.
After Best Buy bought the company in 2002, the VW Beetle was adopted as the new Geekmobile, which at the time was still a new and offbeat ride.
They're adding four new "categories" of listings: vacation homes, boutique, B&B, and "unique" (these would be the company's more offbeat listings, like tree houses and house boats).
This all means that Waititi, whose last movie was the offbeat Marvel blockbuster "Thor: Ragnarok," may soon find his brand of irreverence rewarded on Hollywood's most reverent night.
At Eat Offbeat this year, a handful of hate mails saying "go home, stay there, make America great again" came to the company, its Lebanese co-founders said.
The Tesla Model X. We've taken Model Xs on several road trips and have been generally impressed with Tesla's offbeat, feature-packed, road-going sci-fi electric shuttlecraft.
The fun interior has a chilled-out, retro theme with the wood-paneled back area with fairy lights and offbeat decor offering a cozy space for larger groups.
The music will find visual accompaniment in the drawings of Nick Austin, currently on view in the space, who shares Allen's interest in offbeat storytelling and visual play.
Anglo media treated the fandom like an offbeat peculiarity, and numerous outlets gawked at the idea—as if teenage angst and indie pop were exclusively a white thing.
This first volume collects hundreds of pages of the manga for a very affordable price, and Ajin is highly recommended for anyone interested in an offbeat supernatural story.
True to Kink's penchant for the offbeat and subversive, the final shoot at the Armory was a parody of David Lynch's 90s-era cult TV show Twin Peaks.
Out of the way, offbeat or small — and sometimes all three — these institutions may offer a more detailed or focused view of a period or an unusual collection.
And the young and obscure street wear brand Cactus Plant Flea Market sells vintage-style T-shirts that are hand-printed and embroidered with offbeat typography and graphics.
The dust-up with the Sun-Times reporter — an offbeat incident involving a high-profile local figure — was exactly the type of story Chicagoist would have picked up.
There are no indexes that track offbeat or niche retailers as a separate group, but the success on Wall Street of some companies in this space is clear.
This year, Times reporters delivered 22019 dispatches, an often colorful series of features meant to offer some offbeat context into a culture, from 44 countries and six continents.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From hit songs about sausage rolls to the world's first odor map, here are 21 of the more offbeat news stories from 2019: 1.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From hit songs about sausage rolls to the world's first odor map, here are 21 of the more offbeat news stories from 2019: 1.
The Museum of Broken Relationships in the old town of the Croatian capital has exerted a strange pull since 2006 on tourists looking for a more offbeat experience.
We spoke with reporter Sebastien Malo and filmmaker Liz Mermin, who recently visited Eat Offbeat to report on the company and its staff for the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Chipotle is also investing heavily in traditional advertising focused on food quality, a major shift from is former dependence on offbeat marketing projects, such as quirky short promotional films.
The two have much in common, from their goofy, offbeat senses of humor to their impressive resumes, both of which include winning an Oscar before the age of 30.
The BMW 840i Gran Coupe is an offbeat BMW that's worth a look if you want something substantial and versatile that's fun to drive and crammed with premium appointments.
Keeping Score In the midst of the Golden State Warriors' championship run last season, Draymond Green became nearly as famous for his offbeat personality as for his lockdown defense.
There's an unexpected destination for the offbeat snacker where limited-time promotional snacks and discontinued cult-classic flavors find new life: Amazon, the new laboratory of the food world.
Many apps run just like standard smartphone apps on the Z Flip and aren't tailored to utilize its offbeat design, such as the Google Play Store as shown above.
Leah on the Offbeat follows Leah not just through a journey through her own sexuality, but also through the hardships of high school, complicated relationships, and embracing body positivity.
What I Love 12 Photos View Slide Show ' Cynthia von Buhler is a painter, playwright, performance artist and children's book author and illustrator with a reputation for being offbeat.
Some of the latest offbeat concepts not only help restaurants set themselves apart from the competition, but also tackle industry-wide problems like rising labor costs or limited seating.
The quirky star participated in his latest offbeat performance art piece Friday at Oxford University, and only resorted to (mild) violence after a fan nearly begged him for it.
Silvia Venturini Fendi has been an individualist for far longer than it has been popular, following her own offbeat course wherever it may lead her and her men's wear.
Now we get this year's version of "Testimony" in "Kissing Your Sister," an offbeat episode that both summarizes and comments on everything that's happened so far in Season 5.
The piece begins in trickster style, with the soloist playing a funky ostinato modelled on Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme and a detuned honky-tonk piano adding offbeat accents.
Shift takes inspiration from a defunct Carnegie Hall event, Spring for Music, which, from 2011 to 2014, attracted two dozen orchestras and much offbeat fare to New York City.
Mr. Thomas, 72, has been lauded for conducting both Mahler and his beloved "mavericks" — offbeat American composers including Charles Ives, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison.
The pair have displayed a delightfully offbeat chemistry and improvisational fearlessness, whether they're playing versions of themselves, militantly feminist bookstore owners, or the gender-bent couple Nina and Lance.
A fetishizer of archaic and offbeat language, he is also the author, with the illustrator Jackie Morris, of "The Lost Words: A Spell Book," a cultural phenomenon in Britain.
The preshow for "The Favourite" includes a selection of the director Lanthimos's short films and commercials, plus several samples of the star Olivia Colman's offbeat TV sketch comedy work.
Buy it here >> Covering the US and Canada like never before, and for the first time with full-color photographs, here are 1,000 compelling, essential, offbeat, utterly unforgettable places.
" Schutt's offbeat and dissonant sentences make us experience language anew: "The heavy-headed mock orange, now past, Pie hacked at and hacked at until the shorn shrub looked embarrassed.
It's about urban loneliness, including the author's own, and it takes detours into truly offbeat places, such as the music of that genuine isolato, the otherworldly countertenor Klaus Nomi.
If the answers to the clues sound a bit offbeat, that's because they are real phrases, but the true answers are derived by flipping the order of the words.
For almost half a century, he's been weaving this quirk into poignant romantic fables, often galvanized by offbeat casting decisions that add unexpected layers to whatever story he's telling.
While customers previously could ask Domino's to deliver to offbeat locations, the initiative establishes set drop-off points that customers can find with the location services on their smartphones.
The designers wanted to show their support for sustainability in fashion, and the fact that no two pairs were alike also fit perfectly with the Eckhaus Latta's offbeat spirit.
Apple Arcade has so far been a great repository for polished, offbeat indie games that are best explored when you have some quiet time and perhaps no internet connection.
Michela's cherished secret spots included the offbeat Piazza della Giuggiola, an exquisite square paved with river rocks rivaled only by the nearby Piazza dell'Olivella in tranquillity and poetic otherworldliness.
Amy Kritzer, who with her brother Andrew owns Modern Tribe, an online Judaica store with an offbeat edge, said that Hanukkah accounted for about 40 percent of annual revenue.
"True History of the Kelly Gang" also features an outstanding supporting cast, including a spirited Russell Crowe as the antihero's offbeat mentor and Nicholas Hoult as a steely constable.
Social enterprises like Eat Offbeat and Hot Bread Kitchen are growing in NYC and elsewhere in the US. Why do you think this important at this point in history?
They were whimsical and offbeat, but the experience of seeing them was so brief, I only really found satisfaction by looking at the images I captured with my phone.
More than 15 years ago, Sharon and her husband, Ozzy, began filming their reality show, MTV's The Osbournes, which documented the lives of the rock star and his offbeat family.
And with cosmic lovebirds Venus and Mars entwined in offbeat Aquarius from December 7 to 19, some unexpected romances might be the fringe benefit of all that melting-pot mingling.
The whole bit was so unapologetic in the best way, we're sort of tempted to begin our own hobby of swiping fashion's latest offbeat accessory from New York's hottest restaurants.
There were offbeat events, too, like the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival, founded in 2012 to honor that grand old man of Indian literature, who died two years later at 99.
That's a shame because Loudermilk (and a few of Audience's other shows, such as You Me Her) is a nice, weird little comedy that's just offbeat enough to be interesting.
Known for his quick wit, sarcasm, offbeat humor and silly stunts, Letterman interviewed top stars and political figures on more than 6,000 episodes over 33 years in late-night television.
As for Bell's role in the company, she's had a hand in fine-tuning its offbeat, normcore-infused commercial voice (check out the video below to see what we mean).
But look a little closer and there's a bevy of slightly more offbeat choices, making this a great month for expanding your horizons from the comfort of your own couch.
It's great to see startups showcase quirky, offbeat little creations; it's one of the things that makes VR so interesting compared to the world of phones, TVs, and game consoles.
It's smart, nerdy, weird music, but the strangest thing about it isn't its quirky rhythms or offbeat approach—it's that you could easily imagine hearing it blasting through an arena.
The scene epitomized the offbeat sweetness of a Village romance, short-lived as theirs proved to be — they broke up in 1964 partly over Mr. Dylan's affair with Ms. Baez.
Alien tourism appears to be gaining popularity around the world, and some offbeat travelers believe that a remote hilltop in Thailand holds the key to connecting with the extraterrestrial world.
As the police and detective are brought in to investigate, it&aposs quickly discovered that just about each member of the offbeat Thrombey clan has a motive for offing Harlan.
Next came the "whimsical and offbeat" Ron Alexander, who made the column one of The Times's most popular features, Enid Nemy wrote at the time of his death, in 1998.
The New Yorker recently described his readership as "a motley collective" and quoted one writer who said he'd made lifelong friends while interacting in the comments of Cooper's offbeat space.
Bratri v tricku (the Trick Brothers), a duo formed in 2009, brought offbeat energy to a juggling show, "Praseci cirkus" ("Pigs' Circus"), that featured flying pigs and pink flared pants.
On the face of it, this is an odd duo, but Mr. Bell, the lyrical, pristine violinist, and Mr. Denk, a cheeky and offbeat pianist, make for a fine partnership.
He became a fan of offbeat TV characters like Barney Fife and Gomer Pyle in "The Andy Griffith Show," and dreamed of appearing in sitcoms as the hero's goofy sidekick.
A year later, they unveiled a clothing line under the same name and with a similarly offbeat aesthetic, produced in Tbilisi and now stocked in a number of foreign boutiques.
But there has always been another layer of activity — call it the classical music underground — in which dedicated artists and curious audiences gather in small, offbeat spaces for adventurous programs.
Like his HBO comrade and fellow "Daily Show" alumnus John Oliver, Wyatt Cenac combines offbeat humor with journalistic techniques to produce in-depth examinations of problems in the United States.
A favorite among the radio offerings he listened to was "The Goon Show," a comedy program that often veered into offbeat territory and had a cast that included Peter Sellers.
"Pabst in the past has been able to buck trends by playing up its retro feel and being a little offbeat, and those same things are helpful today," he said.
Some of these spaces are finding new life in offbeat and bleak ways, like a former Toys R Us store that was transformed into a haunted house in New York.
Ms. Coane also looked to Joan Didion, Gloria Vanderbilt and Candice Bergen — "amazing women who had an unapologetic sense of style," she said — to devise the brand's offbeat merchandising strategy.
There is a photoshoot going on with a model in a bikini and a clear rain jacket and some girls trying to twerk but are offbeat, it is very entertaining.
When you mix an overabundance of enthusiasm with an offbeat asset class that has few investable choices for investors looking for the next big thing, you get an asset bubble.
On his way out of Tough Mudder, Horbaczewski, in his mid thirties at the time, was hungry to start his third venture and was looking for another offbeat sports concept.
An offbeat premise made the biographical drama difficult to market, and poor reviews definitely didn't help draw the kind of crowds that could help justify a production budget over $40 million.
Reading Convenience Store Woman — a spare, quietly brilliant novel about an offbeat woman whose life revolves around the convenience store she works at — is like being lulled into a soft calm.
The Bogarins describe 306 Hollywood as a "magical realist documentary," a genre they made up to describe how they tell a real-life story through whimsical constructed images and offbeat scenarios.
In addition to Brain Age, Kawamoto also worked on more offbeat titles like the mini-game collection 1-2-Switch and the StreetPass Mii Plaza app built into the Nintendo 3DS.
The long-running zombie show has used offbeat musical choices to set the mood and pull apart our connections to pop culture by weaving sublimely normal moments into otherwise grisly scenarios.
San Francisco used to draw creative and offbeat types from all kinds of backgrounds and with all kinds of interests, because it was beautiful, affordable and weird (in a good way).
"Many little touches in the film reflect the offbeat hand of Ms. Delpy," Nicolas Rapold wrote in The Times of this farce, directed by Ms. Delpy and written with Eugénie Grandval.
"Dry and offbeat, with an immediate, original voice, this comedy is a back-roads drive through the expansive territory between rags and riches," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
For 20 years, 0003Pointz was an offbeat tourist destination that not only attracted thousands of visitors, but also helped transform Long Island City into the thriving residential neighborhood it is today.
The actor Luke Evans's charmingly wide-eyed way of portraying Moore's naïveté is genuinely charming and offbeat — moreover, it makes him a terrific opposites-attract match for Dakota Fanning's Sara Howard.
" Robinson puts that sketch training to use — along with his ability to make a strong, not always positive first impression — in the offbeat cringe-comedy show "I Think You Should Leave.
" Murdoch drops offbeat little maxims as she goes: "Basil is of course the king of herbs"; "Only a fool despises tomato ketchup"; "Meat is really just an excuse for eating vegetables.
When that career became a fallen soufflé, he accompanied his wife and young sons to Luxembourg, which became the intriguingly offbeat setting for his first novel, an uncommonly devious espionage thriller.
Young art dealers arrive to try their hand in the official gallery neighborhood, and often fold-up shop quickly, as the promisingly offbeat American Medium, which started in Brooklyn, did recently.
For 20 years, 5Pointz was an offbeat tourist destination that not only attracted thousands of visitors, but also helped transform Long Island City into the thriving residential neighborhood it is today.
His offbeat surname is no happenstance; it was chosen by his grandparents, whose original surname, Nilsen, was very common when they emigrated to Canada by way of Minnesota and South Dakota.
One of the smallest and most offbeat is Spectrum, across the street from the Brooklyn Navy Yard; it still has the look and feel of the garage it used to be.
For streamers sticking to the offbeat horror-over-romcom tradition, February will also bring the terrifying Cabin in the Woods and a V-Day themed special episode of Into the Dark.
Whether you're dealing with a pack of Conjuring stans or an offbeat group of indie pushers, nailing down exactly what will (and what won't) satisfy any given audience can be tricky.
While the plot gets a bit dense at times, the author's ear for the sidesplitting verbal tics of his quirky and deliciously offbeat characters makes this book well worth the read.
His paintings depicting surreal landscapes and interiors with offbeat, emotive palettes have been shown at New York's Jack Hanley Gallery and will be on display at Independent art fair next month.
We'll be coming at you all week with the movies you need to know over the next few months – including the emotional, the offbeat, the family-friendly, and, today, the awards-worthy.
The paintings — many of them quite large, especially for an artist known for her watercolors — are packed with formal intelligence, a continuous humming energy, graphic control, offbeat humor, and layers of tenderness.
Hart of Dixie is romantic, offbeat, and good-hearted, and if you give it a chance it might just make you believe in the power of a good TV love triangle again.
"It's scary and I'm really afraid – I'm not going to lie," says Keswani, whose offbeat Vine videos earned him over 3 million followers before he jumped ship to YouTube several months ago.
But to stand out — and in many cases, justify — the sometimes hefty "resort" or "convenience" fees many properties now tag onto bills, hotel guests are being offered more offbeat and intriguing perks.
I was taken aback by how weird and offbeat and fun [the show] is, and the character falls right in line with how I like to play to my own comedic timing.
Because being, I think, educated women, writerly women, don't want to, or do not feel comfortable dealing with strangers or people that I'm attracted to, sort of the offbeat characters, not reliable.
For anyone visiting Los Angeles, Venice Beach is a two-and-a-half-mile pedestrian boardwalk stringing together a motley group of vendors, bodybuilders, psychics, medical marijuana advocates, and other offbeat characters.
Their deadpan, thoroughly offbeat delivery makes one thing clear: Reaching your 30s isn't a death sentence or something to fear — it's just a continuation of the comedy of errors that is life.
Offbeat casting decisions enliven Callahan's otherwise repetitive A.A. meetings, including the reliably odd Udo Kier and marvelous turns from the musicians Beth Ditto of Gossip and Kim Gordon (formerly of Sonic Youth).
I wish my favorite line from the book, "It's okay to put a fish in your hair," could replace the banal phrase, "It takes all kinds," as an offbeat expression of acceptance.
The offbeat comedians Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding have replaced Ms. Giedroyc and Ms. Perkins as hosts, while the chef and writer Prue Leith has taken over for Ms. Berry as judge.
The atmosphere is gregarious, the food fundamentally Italian, while the offbeat beverage list is the brainchild of the wine director, Sebastian Zutant, without whom Washingtonians might still be stuck with California cabernets.
The North Star State continues to follow its offbeat path to competitiveness, charging some of the highest taxes in the nation but insisting that businesses get plenty of value for their money.
It's not a Cartier-Bresson-style "decisive moment" but perhaps an instant just after or just before such a moment, with a little lurch in time, like the favored offbeat in jazz.
And that was never more true than with The Wonderful 0003, an offbeat "unite action" game that sees the player recruiting dozens of heroes and bringing them together for powerful touchscreen attacks.
This offbeat animated series has been telling some fairly dark stories in its homestretch, so fans can expect to be put through an emotional wringer before the cult favorite reaches its conclusion.
But while it's fun to ask a smart speaker like an Amazon Echo or Google Home to play your favorite track, offbeat band names and track titles can still trip them up.
J. F. Chen and Wyeth, arguably the country's two leading galleries for midcentury modern design, have practically made a point of ignoring Mr. Evans, even as his offbeat works break auction records.
Punches, profanity and streams of offbeat argot fly from the first page of this idiosyncratic debut novel about a Mexican immigrant living on the edge of survival in an unnamed American city.
You can listen to her offbeat career podcast, b CAUSE with Erin & Nicole, or you can start pumping up your career with her free guide, "10 Simple Steps to a Rich Career."
The rest of the sketches tended toward the offbeat, like they were intended for SNL's infamous "10 to 1 [am]" slot where the week's most bizarre ideas get a chance to shine.
But "fakery" might mean the computer on that desk isn't an iMac—and the entertainment center won't be sporting a real TV. This leads me to an offbeat question: Who makes those?
The ad references a more offbeat device — the AmazonBasics Alexa-powered microwave — but then makes cracks about the Alexa devices that didn't work — like an Alexa dog collar and hot tub, for example.
Musk has made a rather public showing of his offbeat tunnel-digging venture over the last few months, with an occasional flurry of Twitter announcements and Instagram posts to commemorate each new milestone.
"You can tell by the interview that he's an offbeat character and he's definitely been more talkative than just about anybody else, perhaps with the exception of Michael Caputo, I think," Texas Rep.
The memoir-meets-documentary is a two-hour patchwork of footage left on the cutting-room floor — a colorful, emotive collage of unused interview clips, offbeat encounters, outtakes, home videos, and uncanny moments.
Then there's a screening with the producers and cast of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, an offbeat detective show, followed by a preview of Class, a Doctor Who spinoff about Coax Hill School.
Twitter users are pointing out the hypocrisy of Cernovich urging followers to disavow Gunn: Guardians of the Galaxy has become one of Marvel's most beloved franchises, known for its offbeat sense of humor.
The book is a strange paleo-future, unscientific pitch that at times bears more resemblance to an even more offbeat take on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory than a medical journal.
By their own admission, the laid back duo weren't attempting to subvert the scene or current sound, but their interpretations of the sound du jour are curiously offbeat even when they're joyously banging.
Last year, Vodun's album Possession sent more than a few shockwaves through the Noisey office with its offbeat blend of hefty stoner doom, low-slung blues, heavy psych rock, and West African spiritualism.
And doubly so, since the sun will blaze through offbeat, activist Aquarius until the 19th — accompanied by thoughtful Mercury, romantic Venus, and a new moon also hitting the Water Bearer's zone this month.
With such an extensive complex offering so many things to enjoy, any guest would be happy to spend their entire vacation without setting foot outside their hotel while staying at this offbeat location.
To explain their infatuation with Trader Joe's, fans of the offbeat grocery chain typically cite three factors: low prices, an appealing selection of high-end products and, perhaps above all, irrepressibly friendly employees.
Master of None not only has time for random asides like a talk show hosted by Raven-Symoné, it downright delights in them, finding room for jokes and sight gags and offbeat moments.
"They ought to get to the end of it, because I think the American public is sick of it," Trump mused during an offbeat, impromptu press conference in the White House Rose Garden.
When "New Sounds" started, radio was still one of the few ways to hear new and offbeat music — a monopoly it has lost in recent years to the internet, and to streaming services.
The pop star Billie Eilish offers a refreshing twist: Through her affinity for oversize hoodies and pants and her confident, offbeat swagger, she provides girls an alternative to the overtly sexualized pop singer.
The offbeat illustrator proves a rich subject for a play, and the writer-director Travis Russ's "Gorey," from the Life Jacket Theater Company at the Sheen Center, does his archly kooky world justice.
Airbnb is known for offering novelty lodging opportunities, like a night in a Goodyear blimp, though Lucy will be one of Airbnb's most offbeat listings ever, according to a spokeswoman, Liz DeBold Fusco.
"Miramax virtually created the art house boom in the 1990s by turning offbeat and inexpensive movies like 'Pulp Fiction' and 'Shakespeare in Love' into mainstream hits," The New York Times said in 2010.
Lucky was Mr. Reitman looking for a TV project in 2014 just after Mr. Lehmann had written one and Hulu, Netflix, Seeso and other services were broadly expanding the market for offbeat comedies.
In "M*A*S*H" (1), the first of several Robert Altman films in which Mr. Auberjonois appeared, he was Father Mulcahy, the chaplain for an offbeat medical unit during the Korean War.
Through game magazines and TV commercials, and the accounts of Alex and other game-loving friends, I became aware of the PlayStation and the more quirky and offbeat experiences it played host to.
There was also a nice batch of offbeat clues for fill, like for AHS, DECAL, RING TOSS and LYRES; all in all this was a typically dense and fun solve from this constructor.
I have mixed feelings about "Convenience Store Woman," but there is no doubt that it is a thrifty and offbeat exploration of what we must each leave behind to participate in the world.
If a group of horror-movie fans have their way, Romero will be to Pittsburgh what John Waters is to Baltimore: a director whose visionary (and offbeat) filmography is a cultural tourism generator.
They have offbeat superpowers — the Rumor can cause things to happen just by saying them aloud — and they were raised by an emotionally distant father, an android mother and a kind, talking chimpanzee.
The list of offbeat treatments people are willing to use in the name of period relief range from using essential oils, to sitting on a vaginal steamer, and wearing a special energy-healing pad.
"Cubby" is clearly an effort to make an offbeat, personal film; an opening title card says that it's "based on a lie," and details throughout are so strange they must be drawn from life.
Having solid galleries and museums certainly helps, but it may be more a function of cheap space, the city's embrace of offbeat behavior and a hard-to-quantify ability to channel the creative spirit.
The list included the mundane—bats, helmets, free weights, a pitching machine—and the offbeat, such as 1,200-plus obsolete baseballs, 54 bobbleheads and one hockey net for a certain left-handed relief pitcher.
" Moonves is also considering putting shows on All Access from the CW Network, its joint venture with Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros, which produced the offbeat hits "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and "Jane the Virgin.
But he was still an offbeat choice for an aspiring teen queen's album at the time, and from the moment the first hit, "The Way," appeared on radio, critics noted Grande's similarity to Carey.
There was her appearance in the 2010 spring/summer campaign of Vivienne Westwood by Juergen Teller: totally offbeat, full of humor, shot in an empty lot in Miami between a trailer and a laundromat.
One of those fans, a programmer from Kansas with an offbeat sense of humor and an unmissable skillset, released a PC emulator for the NES—a reverse-engineered software version of the hardware platform.
I also did really well with print ads in the back of local magazines like  Gambit and  OffBeat—and in turn, escort ads are what paid the bills for a lot of those magazines.
While he tackled serious topics, Mr. Safer was also known as a "quirkologist" for his offbeat stories, such as "Tango Finlandia," about the affection Finns had for the sensuous dance, and about Marfa, Tex.
"I Put a Spell on You" is lyrically dark, the offbeat tale of a heartbroken lover (or obsessive stalker, depending on your point of view) who resorts to magic to get his partner back.
Bridges, 69, got his start as a child star appearing alongside his parents Lloyd and Dorothy Bridges, and his older brother Beau in the 1950s before carving his own path in mostly offbeat roles.
Louisa is a girl who wears offbeat clothes and doesn't much enjoy sex, and having that simply be the way her character is — rather than the result of a brutal assault — is perfectly fine.
And can I suggest that Commander Lawrence, with this barely restrained contempt for women and love of offbeat pop music choices, is the show itself personified as an award-winning and beloved character actor?
Two of Us Your affection for the work of John Green and other offbeat romances led me to think of "Eleanor & Park," Rainbow Rowell's love story about two high school sophomore misfits in Nebraska.
"There's no question that Jazz Fest has been the event that put New Orleans music on the map," said Jan Ramsey, the publisher and editor in chief of the New Orleans music magazine OffBeat.
Team: West Ham United Known for its cutting-edge bars, offbeat galleries and ethnic restaurants, East London is by far the city's trendiest area, crowded with shoppers during the day and clubbers at night.
From duck decoys and hood ornaments to limited-edition sneakers and Pez candy dispensers, offbeat collectibles attract the eye of investors who crave tangible assets they can appreciate and that ... well, appreciate in value.
But based on his short time in New York, and some offbeat behavior during spring training, Cespedes's tenure here seems destined to be provocative, entertaining, even exhilarating at times, and also occasionally quite maddening.
The film has a charmingly handmade ambience of hyperreality: puppetry, stop-motion animation and dozens of little offbeat details, like Cassius' broken windshield wipers, which he must operate by yanking a piece of string.
The agency documents many of the odd and offbeat items on its blog and Instagram feed throughout the year, and this week released a top 10 list of verboten items it found in 2017.
"Delivering a sense of offbeat authenticity can be hard for a big hotel company to pull off," says Rauch, who says that's one reason online hospitality services like Airbnb and VRBO have taken off.
This is the sort of novel in which nearly every character has an offbeat name (Leviticus Sprague, Cracker Graham, LuEtta Mood) and can seem more like a collection of quirks than a human being.
If I'd rank "Winter" a notch below "Autumn" in terms of its cohesion and pure witchy cerebral power, there are few writers on the world stage who are producing fiction this offbeat and alluring.
Companies like Nest have already introduced products that hook into the internet, including internet-connected security cameras, while more offbeat options like internet-connected fitness devices for dogs are also now on the market.
In some ways I look at Eat Offbeat as a classic American underdog story: destitute people flee persecution or war, and against all odds, using the skills they bring with them, they make it.
After about seven minutes of offbeat Gregorian chants, a wave of drums and guitar chords suddenly — and hilariously — engulfs the soundtrack, prompting the child to spin and pound her dirty soles into the ground.
This past week on Twitter was a bit offbeat, featuring the usual amounts of Harry Potter, while also including various oddities that people noticed about the world, among them strange ads and pictures of toilets.
For another, the snowstream and its accompanying soundtrack, while perhaps just as offbeat as Macklemore and his new song, will surely only bring joy to legions of listeners, while the opposite is true of Macklemore.
Gunn is rebooting the movie for Warner Bros, and giving the Squad a brand new take (which will more than likely feature his signature brand of offbeat humor, something the first Suicide Squad desperately lacked).
By drawing more attention to Gabbard, she further boosted her legitimacy particularly in the eyes of more libertarian, often wildly offbeat voters and political elements with whom the representative for Hawaii was already gaining ground.
It's as offbeat as you'd expect from the creator of Katamari Damacy, Noby Noby Boy, and the upcoming Wattam, which is also being shown off at BitSummit and looks to be even more charmingly unhinged.
I wondered if it was a weird joke—Grillo is famous for his offbeat humor—but a few days later a post appeared on his blog detailing his new tariff for conversations with the press.
You've stayed aboard because you've invested so much time into the show and its characters, but you're occasionally disappointed by TWD's offbeat pacing, wild swings in quality, and tendency to mess with viewers on purpose.
Where Sapiens outlines Simon's adventures in coming out, Leah on the Offbeat reveals that Leah is struggling with her identity too: she's bisexual and working to muster the courage to come out to her friends.
"Primeval is the place at the centre of the universe" it begins—and that universality, packed as the narrative is with offbeat characters and one strange episode after another, was the secret of its success.
The offbeat signature styles of some of the new designers may never be a huge part of the $96 billion furniture industry, but start-ups are finding ways to reach their target audiences with them.
Tuition at Schiller, which also has campuses in Florida, London, Madrid and Paris, is about $2722,21, while Bard's offbeat liberal arts program, strong in social and political thought, runs $2112,000 for tuition, room and board.
And I'm also incidentally talking about Tove Styrke and her song "Say My Name," a bouncing, offbeat pop single—the first since her 2015 album Kiddo, which is by all accounts, nothing like this song.
Google announced its emoji redesign back at I/O, its annual developer conference, so we've had time to grieve the blobs, but it's still going to hurt for some fans of the offbeat Google pictographs.
"Classical Period," the second and (at barely more than an hour) longest feature from the offbeat filmmaker Ted Fendt ("Short Stay"), is technically in English, but it might as well be in liberal-arts-speak.
His disregard for trends and his offbeat approach to sourcing pieces, from both emerging designers and markets and auctions across Europe, has garnered him a loyal customer base of British fashion editors, stylists and artists.
That, combined with completely muffing 40D, made this one of the last clues I filled in, and it's a bit more than offbeat to me, more toward head-scratching, but HOPE NOT does fit there.
Flores, 27, was beloved by Mets fans because of his flair for the dramatic (his four career walk-off home runs are a team record), his declared fondness for the Mets and his offbeat personality.
She added that customers of the online retail site are favoring large hoop earrings and asymmetric earrings and chokers, as well as designs that mix offbeat stones like opals, lapis and turquoise with precious stones.
" The account has posted comically offbeat guesses as to what the Quibi name could mean, including "that moment when the toilet just keeps running and you have to jiggle the handle to make it stop.
Mr. Breathed won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987 for "Bloom County," a vintage 1980s strip with offbeat characters like Opus, the talking penguin, and the bug-eyed, often unintelligible Bill the Cat.
It's Barry's follow-up to "Beatlebone" (2015), his memorably offbeat imagining of John Lennon's attempted visit to an uninhabited island off the west coast of Ireland that, in real life, Lennon had purchased in 1967.
Such was my enviable lot recently, and while that show is over, the monthlong "Christmas Is a Drag" series at the Beechman continues this week with some of the most offbeat holiday entertainment you'll find.
According to the description of Leah on the Offbeat, Leah will attempt to come out to her friends senior year of high school, just as Simon is grappling to tell the world about his own sexuality.
While there are plenty of lurid headlines out there on Tinder Social that mention orgies and "enabling group sex," it's a stronger likelihood that you'll be listening to an offbeat tambourine playing in an empty pub.
Last fall, Peter von Panda, a YouTuber who specializes in product reviews of offbeat items such as an electric chainsaw, an Eagle Scout folding knife, and a bluetooth karaoke speaker, figured this out on his own.
But this actually looks like a very sweet, offbeat documentary about a strange niche you probably didn't know existed: musical numbers made for corporate promotion decades ago, when I guess it was considered impressive and cool.
New York's event announced 21 winners for a collective $1.86 million for projects ranging from food startup Eat Offbeat, that employs refugee chefs, to a fashion line, ATOMIC by Design, that celebrates women in STEM fields.
The Fibbers also played Dolly Parton's "Jolene" on their first EP for the offbeat Olympia label Sympathy For The Record Industry, about six years before The White Stripes more famously covered "Jolene" for the same label.
In the red, black, and yellow "Composition #25" (2017) Chiappa's offbeat humor, impeccable craftsmanship, and allusions to furniture made me think that he was channeling De Stilj furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld through a Dadaist's mischievous sensibility.
We are told that Blanca's friend "turns everything into the frivolous and festive," but the main evidence for that comes from descriptions of her offbeat hats and ­dresses, not from anything specific she says or does.
Twenty-five years ago, a friend, knowing of my interest in offbeat crime news, presented me with a copy of the actual court file of Capone's gun case, which I stashed in the basement and forgot.
The presentation, conceived by Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator in charge of the Met's department of photographs, is terrific: taut and moody, with a kind of offbeat format the museum rarely attempts in its Fifth Avenue headquarters.
It draws offbeat tourists to the town of fewer than 200 people, a dusty strip where the burning earth can melt the soles of shoes and the water running from the "cold" tap comes out hot.
New Line especially liked movies that appealed to specific audiences, whether horror fans or young black audiences (as with the 25 comedy "House Party") or admirers of the offbeat (as with John Waters's "Hairspray" in 1988).
Thanks to my days as a roller derby skater, I was aware of a pretty cool lawyer who, in addition to representing roller derby leagues, happened to work with a number of interesting and offbeat clients.
Old-school Marvis toothpaste, which was founded in the 1950s and was a pioneer of offbeat flavors like licorice, ginger and jasmine, is experiencing a resurgence and is available at retailers like the millennial friendly Revolve.com.
"These weird, little spots usually have a lot of heart, and I think that's why people seek them out," said Kenneth Smith, a founder of Roadside America, a state-by-state compilation of offbeat tourist attractions.
From North America, there's the spookifying regional classic "Carnival of Souls" (19353), the chilly Canadian family guignol "The Brood" (1979) directed by David Cronenberg, and Guillermo del Toro's debut feature, the offbeat vampire picture "Cronos" (1993).
It's pissy and offbeat, and there's something lovable in its willingness to look silly, using the physical bravado of Kathryn Hahn, as Chris, and Griffin Dunne, who lends a welcome vulnerability to the role of Sylvère.
At best ambiguous and at worst unfathomable, "Mimosas," the sophomore feature from the Spanish director Oliver Laxe, merges harsh reality and offbeat mysticism into a reflection on the tug between our higher powers and baser instincts.
FREDDY LITTENMunich For those who may not be able to get to Columbus, Indiana, to check out its surprising Modernist buildings, I recommend an offbeat movie called, somewhat unsurprisingly, "Columbus" ("Modernism in the cornfields", September 14th).
With data showing more American workers are leaving increasing amounts of unused vacation time on the table, CNBC surveyed the travel industry to discover which offbeat destinations might entice would-be travelers into taking time off.
If — as this column discussed last month — the preferred retirement spots for Americans are in the Sun Belt states, then New York City, famous for its harsh winters and high living costs, is an offbeat choice.
Following the namesake lead as he travels a dystopian future while trying to find a way back to the past, Samurai Jack combines unparalleled action visuals with a singular tone and an offbeat sense of humor.
It has a squelchy bassline that sounds like a cartoon springboard bouncing around, some elusive saxophone riffs, and the type of clattering, forward-marching vocal patterns that have defined Animal Collective's offbeat pop since Sung Tongs.
The most recent episode features enigmatic game designer Yoko Taro, director of Nier: Automata, and it delves surprisingly deeply into his creative process, explaining why his games often feel so offbeat and human compared to typical blockbusters.
Following Benjamin's lead, the SculptureCenter curator, Ruba Katrib, has organized "The Eccentrics," a circuslike exhibition of artworks and performances by an international roster of eight artists that promises to reveal novel, offbeat and liberating modes of being.
What I was most struck by was the range of feelings and states Tsutaja is able to attain in her work — from serious to offbeat, from raw to nuanced, and from funny to somber — seemingly without straining.
Do you ever stumble upon a chef or baker doing something inventive and offbeat and so visually stunning that it stops you mid-Instagram scroll and prompts you to wonder, how did they think to do that?
Kasich was always a somewhat offbeat Republican contender, who laughed at himself on the trail, occasionally took positions more in line with Democrats (like expanding Medicaid in Ohio) and touted his ability to work across the aisle.
And for now, life in the Jungle goes on, even as many of those who live there appear to regard some of the added elements — the offbeat civic life so prized by the volunteers — with bemused detachment.
Since the launch last Friday, many people have come up experimental and offbeat uses for the Labo, including a candy dispenser, several paper versions of Game & Watch LCD games, and repurposing the Switch as a simple clock.
It's a startling change that fills the episodes with offbeat tension, as we watch Bria come to terms with her new circumstances while attempting to regain a sense of comfort by secretly working again as an escort.
This baby girl is still months away from speaking her first word, but an astrological theory holds that, when she does start to talk, she'll do so with a rapid-fire delivery and offbeat sense of humor.
Here's what to seek out if you're in the mood for something offbeat... Assassination Nation looks a bit like Mean Girls by way of Spring Breakers, but shot through with the ferocious rage of a Purge sequel.
I've ridden and driven a few offbeat things for The Verge, and it's clear that many of these companies (or their ideas) are so new that it's legitimately hard to pin down who their customers could be.
"For lo, I have endowed him with a winning, likable personality and know of a certainty that your apprehension of my depthless profundities will by aided by his offbeat charm," as God-in-the-person-of-Mr.
Up until March 2018, PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, was by far the most popular YouTuber and the inspiration for hundreds of other smaller creators who riffed off his offbeat humor and occasionally tasteless pranks.
It was a run-and-gun platformer like so many we'd seen before, but so individualistically offbeat, chiming perfectly with our early teens appreciation of stuff like Eerie, Indiana, Ren and Stimpy, Animaniacs, and later The Tick.
We do some pretty offbeat things and sometimes it's a little naughty, but there's still a sweetness and innocence to it, and that's born out of the friendship, but it's also born out of the guys' natures.
Memes, Twitter, and offbeat blog posts remain a surprisingly effective tactic of retaliation for an institution that's supposed to play by the old rules of politics and media, such as official press conferences or memos to journalists.
In this capacity, Squeri argues, SETI amounted to more than just a scientific enterprise; it was a kind of "offbeat political movement," a utopian ideology and perhaps surrogate religion — with aliens serving as our more enlightened counterparts.
By design, the show changes depending on the weather: On sunny days, some of the works are not available to be seen, remaining hidden in various ways, and the response to that offbeat approach has been mixed.
Both "headless body" and "topless bar" were ineligible because of their unmatchable word lengths, so I substituted TOPLESS SWIMSUIT and HEADLESS CHICKEN — two offbeat entries that I wasn't sure would pass muster, but I'm glad they did.
" No. 42 Oberammergau, Germany "This offbeat novel, by a German writer born in 1944, about a high school kid in love with a woman formerly employed at Auschwitz, leaps national boundaries and speaks straight to the heart.
February 7 In the offbeat drama "Horse Girl," Alison Brie plays Sarah, a melancholy and socially awkward young woman who begins to believe her personal struggles could be rooted in some supernatural phenomenon in her family's past.
These loosely affiliated, offbeat miniaturists were sending up the format of traditional jokes by undercutting the expectation of a punch line, using textual elements (odd spacing, spelling, punctuation), creating tiny scripts or warping grammar to comedic ends.
These days, Bogotá is blossoming with new ideas, from collectives that house everything from feminist bookshops to hair salons, to offbeat, all-day bars that organize gay tango events, to exquisite dining in rough-and-ready neighborhoods.
Breakout actress Jameela Jamil, who plays Tahani Al-Jamil on The Good Place, has been wooing fans with her larger-than-life personality on social media, where she finds funny, offbeat ways to discuss serious social issues.
"I'm with the photographer on this one — couples are free to play with their expressions of sexuality however they want," Ariel Meadow Stallings, publisher of Offbeat Bride, an inclusive website that caters to nontraditional wedding planning, tells Refinery29.
The latest China trademarks cover things like shoes and jewelry, but also more offbeat items like voting machines and nursing homes, according to a search of records on the Chinese State Administration for Industry and Commerce's Trademark office.
The People's Choice Award for top film in the Midnight Madness program, which often showcases horror and offbeat films, went to "Free Fire" by Ben Wheatley, which sees two groups of criminals in an arms deal gone wrong.
We've been coming at you all week with the movies you need to know over the next few months – like what to see if you're getting emotional, feeling offbeat, hanging with the family, or prepping for awards season.
From duck decoys and hood ornaments to limited-edition sneakers and casks of whiskey, a host of other offbeat collectibles attract the eye of investors who crave tangible assets they can appreciate and that ... well, appreciate in value.
We then updated our VR app with the addition of two more virtual-reality pieces: an offbeat tour of the Japanese city of Osaka, and an animated explainer that examines the problem of overfishing on the high seas.
You may not like the offbeat looks, the extremely disconnected driving experience, the plasticky interior, or the wimpy horsepower, but all is forgiven when you get change from a twenty at the filling station that first time. Hallelujah!
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Artists, bohemians, obsessive collectors, and idlers have long frequented bazaars, curio shops, yard sales, and other offbeat emporia in search of the Marvelous, as the Surrealists called it, hidden in the everyday.
One of the things that makes it so unmissable is its offbeat curatorial decisions: Beyond the autos, the space houses a collection of artifacts from history and entertainment that feel as though they have been chosen at random.
Austin, a university town with offbeat appeal and an entrepreneurial spirit, provides spirit makers with a ready-made customer base of young customers and hipsters — many of whom are known to gorge on artisanal foods, coffee and liquor.
One of the most exciting things about Eat Offbeat: The Cookbook is that 10% of proceeds will go to the International Rescue Committee, and remaining profits from the Kickstarter campaign will go toward hiring and training more refugees.
Here are a few offbeat places to play: • Children can grasp the laws of physics firsthand with wind pipes, fog machines and a gigantic seesaw at the Science Playground at the New York Hall of Science in Queens.
Offbeat shapes were the starting point for Boghossian: One set of earrings pitted a traditional hanging pear-shaped yellow diamond against a contemporary up-the-ear marquise-shaped light-brown diamond clip, both topped by marquise-cut stones.
The tune incorporates a sample from White Town's erotic, offbeat 1997 torchbearer of a hit "Your Woman," using it as a slingshot in the intro and then weaving it back again and again as a hypnotic disco march.
Championed by Alex Eagle, the owner of the Store, and the design dealer Jermaine Gallacher (who both sell his work in their London boutiques), his pieces are often offbeat interpretations of chintzy suburban décor and imitations of antiquity.
Given the offbeat sense of humor that Mr. Musk has sometimes displayed in his Twitter posts, there was immediate speculation that the $20133 figure was a reference to a widely used numerical code — 420 — that refers to marijuana.
They believed that even in a brief run, Mr. Patinkin would generate publicity — the day after the announcement, he was interviewed on "Today" — and that his endorsement would signal the show's appeal to ticketbuyers leery of offbeat theater.
It takes less than no time, and only a few pronoun flips, to accept Kathryn Hunter, attired and coifed like Beatrice Lillie in "Thoroughly Modern Millie," as "Lady" Timon, the wittily offbeat host of an arty Athenian salon.
An intelligent, occasionally eccentric actor, Mr. Cage has offbeat skills that have been best showcased by directors — like Martin Scorsese, Norman Jewison and Andrew Niccol — who know when to rein him in and when to let him fly.
Every time one of my offbeat looks got a high score, I knew it was because other women in the world saw my looks and deemed them worthy, which made me want to reward other players in turn.
"We were doing some things that were offbeat but still on brand, and then we doubled down on some basics of really cultivating content for the different platforms, whether it be Snapchat or Facebook or YouTube," he says.
Grande is chromed and polished, a laser-precise, big-voiced, old-fashioned maximalist; Eilish is offbeat and earthy, with an almost shrugging approach to fame and a voice that sometimes remains at the level of a conspiratorial whisper.
The venue we're in hosts a number of the capital's more offbeat special interest parties; it's something of a last bastion of sleazy London in a part of town that's been all-but gentrified in the last few years.
Inspired by the museum's new exhibition, "The World of Anna Sui," this celebration will immerse young visitors in the offbeat style of the designer, whose influences range from Disney to the Rolling Stones, from Victorian romance to pirate garb.
Visiting a world like Psyche could offer scientists a chance to learn more about the mysterious interiors of terrestrial planets, including Earth's—which is one of the reasons NASA has decided to push forward with this somewhat offbeat mission.
It's an offbeat, often dark portrait of a Midwestern family with a "superstar" at its center, and Ballinger says it's based on her own experiences with YouTube, viral fame, and the toll the internet can take on IRL relationships.
Next, to get a better sense of what this global section is all about, set a stopwatch for five minutes and scroll through "200 Dispatches: Odd Animals, Offbeat Childhoods, Celebrity Origins and Extreme Sports" until the timer goes off.
Mr. Depp, 52, known for playing such offbeat roles as Hunter S. Thompson, Edward Scissorhands and Captain Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, was in Australia last year to film the fifth installment in the franchise.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The remote artist colony and high-desert town of Marfa, Texas has long been an esoteric tourist destination — both for UFO hunters attempting to witness the "Marfa lights" and for offbeat art types.
In 2010, as president and would-be savior of Burlington College — a tiny alternative school without a campus in this small offbeat city — Ms. Sanders championed a deal to buy a waterfront spread from the local Roman Catholic diocese.
Students who take an interdisciplinary array of science courses are better at thinking analogically; researchers with offbeat knowledge combinations score more "hit" papers; Nobel laureates in science are more likely than their less-recognized peers — 22 times as likely!
DAVID AMRAM There's no more suitable send-off for the Cornelia Street Café — which will close next week after 2486 years as a home of offbeat poetry, jazz, cabaret and theater in Greenwich Village — than a David Amram show.
In his review, The Times critic A. O. Scott said that "Frank" was "an accumulation of memorably offbeat moments, like an album made up of B sides and lost demo tracks that you stumble across and can't stop replaying."
The offbeat combination serves as something of an antidote to Milan's bourgeois codes, and may ensure that her name comes up in the continuing local discussion about the need for new designers to secure the future of Italian fashion.
"Sanguine/Bloedrood" is not one of his more demanding curatorial efforts: It has nothing much to say about the older Baroque art on view, and its propositions rest too heavily on the offbeat contrasts that characterize "artist's choice" shows.
Nigel Redden, the director of the annual Lincoln Center Festival, which imports both prestige and offbeat productions of theater, music, dance and spectacle from around the world, has announced that he will leave after this summer's festival, his 20th.
The whole enterprise is wrapped in a big-budget look and served with a respect for the ability of young minds to perceive offbeat, incongruous humor, the very quality that made the books so successful in the first place.
It's exciting to see that momentum start to transform the screen images that shape the larger culture too: Women playing down the come-hither thing, more offbeat-looking women, a few chunky women (and not just in comedy specials).
Robert Krulwich, the longtime journalist and one of the hosts of "Radiolab," the immensely popular audio program known for its offbeat investigations of big ideas, will retire from the show in January, New York Public Radio announced on Thursday.
In that span of movies, we've seen the beginning of Iron Man and Captain America, the end of Ultron, Thor's redemption, Ant-Man's offbeat adventures, new additions like Scarlet Witch and Black Panther, and the weird birth of Vision.
Lo and behold, Filles A Papa, an offbeat rave-meets-rock-and-roll brand that's popular among It girls like Gizele Oliveira and Marion Cotillard, recently presented its resort collection: And it features the tights like you've never seen them before.
Created in collaboration with irreverent French fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan, who's best known for her highly coveted minaudière handbags inspired by classic literature, the limited-edition fall line seems like a surprisingly offbeat choice for the timeless beauty brand.
In addition to bragging rights around your home if you win, game players get to compete for an offbeat prize — the chance to have the show's talent personalize their voicemail, as well as hear their name announced on the air.
Fans of the book will know that Albertalli has written a sequel, called Leah On The Offbeat, which focuses entirely around Simon's BFF as she struggles to come out as bisexual in the weeks leading up to their high school graduation.
Even those, like my high school friend, who don't fall victim to the poster sale, who instead do something offbeat and unexpected like covering their room in Duck Tape or making a bunch of abstract paintings, reveal something about themselves.
Whether you're on a road trip or just looking for something to listen to as you prep for your Memorial Day parties, we've got you covered with this mix of fun, entertaining, educational, and offbeat podcasts to sweep you into summer.
Usually, they'd film these scenes when there was some element that felt odd or offbeat: like when the band stayed at ranch house that kept animals; or when they were in the middle of the desert surrounded by huge windmills.
Last summer the group (which includes but isn't necessarily limited to rappers Groovy Armani and Young Sui flanked by producer swoozydolphin) showcased a refreshingly offbeat ear for beats and rhymes on the underrated Liquor Store Pizza Party at My Crib.
An infectious minimalist mix of gqom drums and offbeat breaks and glitches, Mercedes is also the name of a popular Durban brand of ecstasy that's left at least four teens dead and 32 others in hospital since the start of 2016.
Directed, written, and starring filmmaker Taika Waititi (who's helming the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok), the offbeat comedy follows vampire roommates living in New Zealand and gives an "insider's look" at what it's really like as supernatural creatures adapting to the 21st century.
Offbeat stories, such as one about what cooking tools a traveler should bring when staying in someone's home (home-sharing alert!) and a list of summer festivals authored by former Airbnb exec Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels.
Apparently, Iverson's interests include: What's really interesting about the wide-ranging, eclectic, offbeat posts on the Answer's Facebook page is that apart from updates that revolve around Allen Iverson, noteworthy human being, they all come from the omniscient website, providr.com.
Here he takes an even more offbeat approach, however, intercutting between his visit to an Australian town and himself at a later date, explaining to the camera the limits of his approach and problems he ran into making the video.
Like Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone, and Crimson Peak before it, the film's secured an R rating, which means we'll probably see del Toro doing what he does best: Taking an offbeat fantasy story and spinning it into a bleak nightmare.
This year, Mr. Laugero-Lasserre suggested that the works — which were mostly produced by artists in their studios to be sold — be accessible to a greater audience, for free, in an effort to further promote street art in an offbeat environment.
They can't be mindless glorification or else they become copaganda, like Netflix's Bright, Blue Bloods, or Chicago PD—pieces of media that are so scarily disconnected from the reality of cops that they end up serving as offbeat recruitment ads.
It is a far cry from 1970, year of the first Gay Pride march, when few companies wanted to associate with an offbeat New York event staged to mark the anniversary of the Stonewall riots by LGBT+ people facing police brutality.
Courtney J. Martin, a deputy director and the chief curator at the Dia Art Foundation, who knows Mr. Beasley and his work, said that the artist has a knack for enlivening museums with his offbeat approach to large-scale sculptures.
"Key and Peele" turned goofs on black American identity into highly clickable sketch comedy; "Inside Amy Schumer" did the same with critical assessments of gender norms; and "Broad City" reinvigorated the New-York-strivers genre with its offbeat, feminist millennial sensibility.
It is a far cry from 21, year of the first Gay Pride march, when few companies wanted to associate with an offbeat New York event staged to mark the anniversary of the Stonewall riots by LGBT+ people facing police brutality.
And by writing intelligently about offbeat topics — from a locket meant to hold "mad money" to a deeply unsatisfying West Elm couch called "the Peggy" — The Awl and its sister sites did their best to live up to the motto.
What I found, writing for The Review under Mr. Buruma, was a rare opportunity — or rare in a periodical with significant circulation — to take intellectual and stylistic risks, be offbeat in my opinions and get the last word in editorial scuffles.
And even while her chances of actually winning the Democratic nomination have always been, well, slim, her offbeat(?) performances in the first two presidential debates have made her the most talked-about and meme-able lower-tier candidate in the field.
Global Shopping COPENHAGEN — This city isn't usually the first place a shopaholic thinks of when considering a binge, but for a place its size, it offers an unusual array of offbeat stores and boutiques that can't be found just anywhere.
Soccer tries out offbeat rules from time to time, and many of the experiments are never heard from again; sudden death, for example, in the form of the so-called Golden Goal, was eliminated after a brief and contentious trial period.
Even in the eighties, K-Swiss employed the tactic of "attract[ing] attention through low-budget, and sometimes offbeat, celebrity endorsements," such as the late Bud Collins, a tennis writer and legendary TV commentator, the Los Angeles Times story notes.
Pristine props and popular culture Ten interactive exhibits and galleries at MoPOP, Seattle's Museum of Popular Culture (formerly the EMP) offer visitors a far-ranging tour of music history, contemporary pop culture, science fiction, fantasy and a variety of offbeat trends.
On track to open 20193 affordable boutique properties in university markets across the United States, Graduate is taking on hotel giants less with corporate muscle than with the dash and whimsy that are the signatures of the company's charmingly offbeat founder.
Throughout, the sense of touch, as conveyed by the photographs of hands (ranging from life-size to colossal) and by the faux-textured surfaces of the sculptures, is as compelling as the offbeat visual sensibility the artist brings to the work.
Here's an example: Never in a million years would I have guessed that Dr. Jacoby was buying up all of those shovels and coating them in gold paint to sell them to those who watch his offbeat conspiracy-mongering show.
Plus, no matter how successful or mainstream he became over the course of a career that spanned over half of a century, he remained an outsider, often tapping into dark, offbeat, and otherworldly themes regardless of the sonic atmosphere of the song.
What could seem an offbeat penchant for the humble tuber inspired her first foray into the visual arts at the 2003 Venice Biennale, the multimedia installation Patatutopia, at which she greeted gallery-goers in a giant potato costume on the opening day.
It's hard to say whether Avatars will be able to top the offbeat charm of a well-placed Bitmoji — one of the best gags on HBO's Barry is Noho Hank's use of Bitmoji, cementing his place as the world's most likeable hitman.
I wish I could quote all of the jokes and recount the best offbeat bits...I'll settle for one: the bittersweet feeling of having watched someone grow in front of your eyes, into a different and in some ways improved version of herself.
Although Fred and Wilma sadly are not the actual homeowners, the offbeat estate, designed in 1976, is reminiscent of the popular cartoon family's house with its stone-like shotcrete (that's concrete dispensed through a hose) build and red- and purple-painted façade.
Jenna Lyons' offbeat, quirky vision for J.Crew may have been beloved by the fashion crowd, but it was also often seen as the reason for one of the retailer's biggest problem points: Prices were just too high for the brand's once-mass audience.
Since inception, the offbeat-yet-heartfelt show has earned the praise of critics and comedy aficionados alike—the former scoring early writeups and profiles in major magazines before ever hitting cable airwaves, and the latter leading to a devoted following of online viewers.
Instead of focusing on the condition, the four men who make up the troupe — Noah Britton, New Michael Ingemi, Jack Hanke and Ethan Finlan — perform skits and monologues that reflect their thoughts, perspectives and offbeat sensibilities, often characterized by deadpan and absurd humor.
Over the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, who backed Franklin up in her first sessions at FAME studios in Alabama, she charged into blue notes, dominated the offbeat groove, and demonstrated a remarkable range, rising from a rich low-end to a powerful soprano.
Netflix, meanwhile, just released the first season of "The Umbrella Academy," an offbeat superhero series based on the comics by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá. In a statement, Netflix said: Marvel's The Punisher will not return for a third season on Netflix.
While the story of "Onward" is personal for Scanlon, whose father died when he was young, Ian and Barley's journey plays as disappointingly routine, a checklist of mechanically foreshadowed heart-to-hearts and lessons learned, leavened by the occasional offbeat sight gag.
Set in 1992, this offbeat, continually intriguing family-recriminations drama, directed by Ari Gold, centers on Ollie (Rory Culkin), a record collector who, with a friend, Nikolai (Robert Sheehan), makes a furtive trip to his family's lakefront summer home in upstate New York.
Caches are often situated near offbeat landmarks, like Tom's Restaurant in Morningside Heights, which stood in for the diner on "Seinfeld," or the Midtown subway grate where Marilyn Monroe's white dress famously fluttered, or the TriBeCa firehouse where the Ghostbusters gang convened.
Now 24 and living in New York, she has channeled her passion into a line of offbeat candles — which also take the shape of gourds, squash, zucchini and sugar apples — dyed shades of chartreuse, violet and pink and rendered with irregular textures.
It was a sign that a monthslong uproar at Shutterstock — a small, tightly knit company known for its cache of offbeat, extremely specific stock photos and video — wasn't fading away, reflecting broader conflicts swirling around tech companies, free speech and worker activism.
Agriculture isn't a standard investment sector in the way that, say, financial stocks are, and definitions of it vary, including things ranging from the obvious, like the American equipment-maker Deere & Company, to the offbeat, like Leroy Seafood, the Norwegian fish farmer.
John Mulaney made this wonderfully offbeat looking comedy special that is ostensibly a children's show but in reality seems to be a wacky variety special filled with songs and visuals and guest stars, including David Byrne, Jake Gyllenhaal, and quite a few more.
A 1988 bombing raid on the northern town of Hargeisa, a stronghold of the rival Isaaq clan, opened the door to civil war, famine, anarchy, the Ethiopian invasion, the rise of Islamist radicals and Mogadishu's descent from offbeat tourist destination into Hobbesian hellhole.
The remains form some part of the fundament of the existing island-park, bordered by Fox Creek on one side and Connor Creek on the other, which form a canal system that makes it an offbeat destination for lovers of light watercraft.
Stone, who has long worked in the preservation field, recalled that, in the exhibition, Brown, who had famously collected and was influenced by folk art, outsider art, tribal art, and offbeat pop-culture and vernacular artifacts, remained faithful to Piacenza's creative vision.
Litigation was one tool, but so were colorful invective and offbeat theatrics — fielding unusually large negotiating teams of artists and urging them all to have their say during bargaining sessions across the table from management, even trying to invite reporters into usually private labor talks.
In a statement, the airline explained Joon will offer an "innovative and offbeat" air travel experience for the "epicurean and connected" millennial, starting with medium-haul flights from Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport in fall 2017 and expanding to long-haul flights by 2018.
The fanfare around Undertale reached an undeniable frenzy after its release, and for good reason: it's a role-playing adventure in the vein of Earthbound and the Mario & Luigi series, and it has a quirky, offbeat humor to it along with a catchy soundtrack.
Young, offbeat brands — including fashion labels like Hood By Air, Eckhaus Latta, and Vetements, and makeup companies Milk and Glossier — ditched the whole 'delicate waif' motif and defined their labels through street casting, booking a diverse hodgepodge of friends, collaborators, and people scouted on Instagram.
His still demeanor, commitment to logic, and the occasional flashes of the emotions he could never quite repress gave him an offbeat romantic appeal reinforced by the deep, often contentious camaraderie he developed with the rest of the crew, especially William Shatner's Captain Kirk.
What it says about the future: As enjoyable as Marvel Cinematic Universe movies are, offbeat projects like this offer some hope that the current superhero-movie glut will encourage filmmakers to tell a wider variety of stories, including some that don't fit the MCU template.
In my case, the sun, Mercury, Uranus, and Neptune were all in Capricorn when I was born, and I have those placements to thank for my dry sense of humor, diligent-but-offbeat work ethic, and the value I place on integrity and structure.
But where The Beaver's basic hook — Mel Gibson as a character who talks through a beaver puppet — was offbeat and absurdist to a distracting extreme, Money Monster announces itself with a deceptively conventional exterior that may keep away the audiences who would enjoy it most.
Inspired by the Los Angeles Conservancy's project and a spiritual-themed bus adventure from LA's own offbeat tour company, Esotouric, "City of the Seekers" is a column about how Southern California has enabled creative people to make art as an expression of their spiritual practices.
Elon Musk's Boring Company has built a reputation for offbeat stunts — while its primary business is focused on digging a network of tunnels for Tesla cars under major US cities, the company has drawn attention for selling flamethrowers and building a Monty Python-style watchtower.
Titled "We Can Find Beautiful Things Without Consciousness," the one-minute-and-25 second vignette debuted on Purple's television website in February, with offbeat footage ranging from close-ups of a routine dental checkup to moody moving images of Dot's polka-dot patterned bottle.
Director Chris Smith has demonstrated an affinity for offbeat subjects in his career (a small-town filmmaker in American Movie, a survivalist in Collapse, Jim Carrey in Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond), and Billy McFarland, a uniquely 21st-century grifter, fits this mold well.
In Hilo, an offbeat college town with a small central square and a sprawling banyan tree at its heart, we stopped for coffee at a New Agey kombucha cafe, where I asked the woman working the counter for recommendations for where to go with Roxie.
Managers will surely think twice about calling on an offbeat pitcher to escape a jam, because the reliever cannot be promptly pulled from the game when a theoretically ideal matchup yields, say, a line drive into the gap instead of the desired double play.
More a medley of hushed lyrics, offbeat acoustic instrumentation, and field recordings that function as expressive instruments in their own right, the songs offer a unique combination of sounds native to what was once called "post-rock," now matched with equal density in the lyrics.
Founded in 2015 by Angelenos (and former UCLA classmates) Kate Stimac and Tahl Klainman, Fine Time takes place in a variety of offbeat rooms and DIY spaces that work both your psyche and dancing feet—an ethos that translates directly in their eclectic programming.
Now the novel has a sequel, "Leah on the Offbeat," which debuts at No. 1 on the Y.A. list and features the same diverse group of friends — all, that is, except Ethan, who first appeared in the movie and quickly became a fan favorite.
The film, based on the novel "Dogrun" by Arthur Nersesian, can't decide whether it's an offbeat romance, a self-discovery piece, an exploration of the 1990s punk scene (Mary once played bass in a band and eventually finds herself doing so again) or what.
Written by John Guare and directed by Louis Malle, the offbeat story of Lou, an aging numbers runner (Burt Lancaster), and Sally (Susan Sarandon), the striving young waitress he romances, plays out as the resort town bets its future on becoming a gambling paradise.
Zwirner made interestingly offbeat things of its imperial power in two excellent group shows: "God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin," put together by the critic Hilton Als, and "The Young and Evil," organized by the artist and writer Jarrett Earnest.
The program scheduled at the Sag Harbor Cinema over the weekend was typically offbeat: It included a French film about a philosophy professor facing a midlife crisis and a documentary about a Dutch immigrant who turned an old plow horse into a show jumping champion.
In its offbeat way, the show revived the long-dormant practice of commissioning new opera for TV. "All I kept thinking was, why isn't this story an opera already?" recalled Peter Morris, a playwright and writer on the series who wrote the aria's libretto.
More unexpected picks with Ms. Erlanger included an offbeat (perhaps dated?) Stella McCartney strapless black bodice with sheer skirt design for the Critics' Choice Awards last month, and a winning gold sequined tunic and pants by Monse at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in November.
The conversation was led by One Device author and journalist Brian Merchant, and it more generally covered the earliest days of the iPhone's creation, when the offbeat and wildly creative mixture of engineers and designers initially conceived of a more advanced touchscreen computer prototype using multitouch technology.
These great books feature a version of Edo-era Japan where everyone's a different type of animal, an offbeat detective who strings together coincidence, Adventure Time in all its monster-slaying glory, and Jonesy, which might be the best comic for teens that's ever been made.
What might be among the most radical incarnations of "Pericles" so far now brightens the Two River stage, where Rinde Eckert, a songwriter and performer, and David Schweizer, a director long known for staging offbeat works, have reshaped Shakespeare's episodic odyssey into an enjoyable romp, with music.
The most offbeat number, "Leader of ISIS," written and performed by Mr. Stevens (Michael Liebhauser co-wrote the lyrics) while the women took a break, was a bizarre hybrid of traditional cabaret love song and terrorist threat that suggested a deadpan comic broadside by Tom Lehrer.
But as soon as I cling onto an offbeat idea, it's just a couple of days before the enthusiasm fades, and I'm left with that same, nagging thought: It's not real, it's a bunch of malarkey, and I'm a sucker for even wanting things to be mystical.
Light in the Attic, which specializes in deeply researched reissues of offbeat material — like Rodriguez, the songwriter at the center of the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" — is hoping to find an audience of open-minded listeners by wrapping the music in explanatory context.
THE SISTERS BROTHERS Adapted from Patrick deWitt's novel (and strikingly shot by Benoît Debie), Jacques Audiard's offbeat western stars Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly as gunslinging brothers tracking a chemist (Riz Ahmed) who has devised a secret formula that may make him rich as a prospector.
Among the roomy outercoats and immaculately tailored suits were new propositions, like culottes and knee-skimming tweed skirts worn over thigh-high boots and a variety of pieces in lumberjack checks; Beckham also worked in offbeat details, such as belt buckles made from silver skeleton hands.
It's not exactly unheard of to hide stuff in the inner "run-out groove" of a vinyl record—a spot in which handwritten messages have appeared for decades, ever since a recording engineer named George Peckham started adding offbeat notes in the dead area of the wax.
VanderMeer began to publish regularly with genre magazines and presses where his work was something of an outlier: surreal, Borgesian screeds and offbeat fantasy tales that confounded some fantasy readers because, even though they were set in otherworldly, imaginary places, nothing particularly fantastical ever happened there.
"Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City's Forgotten Waterfront" (Damiani, $39.95) culled by Elizabeth Albert, a professor at St. John's University, is a stunning guide to 10 offbeat and pristine sites that have so far been spared the incursion of high-rise condominiums or private swim clubs.
The improvisational comedian, musician, and Late Late Show bandleader was everywhere at Moogfest, announcing lineups in typically offbeat fashion, appearing on a Wondaland Records-organized panel (see below), and even performing for children at a variety show hosted by Yo Gabba Gabba's DJ Lance Rock under a water tower.
The rapidly changing perspective of Gross's figures as they walk down a street that runs horizontally along the painting's top edge and down its right side — locking in a vertical rectangle that fills the left half of the composition — is exuberant and offbeat, at once sophisticated and naïve.
JOINING "Hamilton", a Broadway show, and concerts by Adele, a British soul diva, on the list of tickets-to-kill-for in New York is a screening in an ugly new office building that recently popped-up in the East Village, a place best known for offbeat culture.
But in brief, it takes place 1,000 years after a nuclear apocalypse known as the "Mushroom War" warps the Earth into a fantasy landscape; its main setting, the Land of Ooo, is populated by offbeat creatures and people made of candy, fire, or "lumpy space," among other things.
They are self-professed masters of LA history and crime who regularly talk about both of these subjects on their podcast, You Can't Eat the Sunshine, as well as on their blog, the 1947 Project, which has documented the "offbeat criminal history of 1947 Los Angeles" since 2005.
A hooded protagonist armed with a skateboard and a holographic blueprint of a mysterious religious site—a church with a pentagram on it—stars in the offbeat animated music video for electronic synth pop outfit Infinity Shred's "Choir VI" (off the band's sophomore album, Long Distance, out October 14th).
In a sport that's a lot more doctrinaire than anything on a beach should ever be, Diaz and Gonzalez were offbeat, improvisatory and unhurried; they were authentically different, in short, and that approach worked a lot better for a lot longer than anyone had a right to expect.
Doug Jones said Don Knotts and his offbeat look was inspiring: "I figured if he could make it, so could I."CreditCreditGraham Walzer for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — Four years ago, while filming "Crimson Peak," the director Guillermo del Toro called Doug Jones into his office.
At exclusive Fendi boutique events, clients are invited to choose from a box of luxury elements that offer more than 100,000 potential combinations — pieces like 18-karat gold buckles, exotic leather bands, detailing with diamonds and precious gems, and offbeat dials cut from malachite, opal, jasper and fossilized coral.
Tonys Briefing • "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 21991," an offbeat pop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy's "War and Peace," earned 240 Tony nominations Tuesday morning, more than any other show, capping a remarkable journey from an 234-seat Off Broadway theater to New York's biggest stage.
Chuck Barris, the creator of television's long-running "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game" who later hosted the offbeat cult classic "The Gong Show" — and who claimed in a memoir to have been a CIA assassin — died March 21 at his home in Palisades, N.Y. He was 20103.
Perhaps meant to anchor these works to an important art-historical moment are several of Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills (1977-1980), but at least in this context I found Sherman's photographs drained of their usual power and fascination, oddly staid in the presence of such offbeat visionary company.
Case in point: Offbeat rocker Todd Rundgren once wrote and performed a poorly-aged song called "I Hate My Frickin' ISP," in which he railed against the anonymous loser that was preventing him from getting online, along with the service that promised him 20 free, addiction-starting hours.

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