My Slice of Life with the Pizza Underground
Playing in a pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band with Macaulay Culkin taught me more about the nature of celebrity—and pizza—than I'd bargained for.
Anatomy of an Anti-Scene
Tracing Antifolk’s aesthetics and community, from the Lower East Side to Berlin.
Berlin Stories: The Antifolk Scene Takes On Berlin | NPR Berlin
In this special episode of Berlin Stories, hosts Deenah Vollmer and Cricket Arrison take a closer look at the Antifolk movement, a music scene that spread to Germany from New York.
YOKO ONO ON LENNON, LOVE, FEMINISM, AND JAPAN
Deenah Vollmer interviews Yoko Ono.
Remembering Albert Maysles and His Beautiful, Empathetic Documentaries - VICE
Deenah Vollmer - VICE
Graceland at Twenty-Five
Graceland turns twenty-five today, which is how old my mother was when the album came out, and how old I am now. My mother never listened to it, nor did my father, and I found it on my own for a dollar on vinyl at a record store in Santa Cruz.
JAMES FRANCO, DEENAH VOLLMER Preparation
This essay, from James Franco and his collaborator Deenah Vollmer, addresses the psychological economy of the star whose traditional preparations as an actor must be taken to extremes—in hopes of justifying the actor’s personal autonomy as part of the mixed, collaborative art of an expensive Hollywood movie.
The Believer - The Compassion-Passion Machine
CAN A CARDBOARD BOX GENERATE EMPATHY BETWEEN TWO STRANGERS? CAN IT HELP THEM TO FALL IN LOVE?
Suiting themselves
Here’s word from Deenah Vollmer, our woman at Sundance, who brings some backstory to one festival event.
In the Land of Videobooks: A Dispatch from the Frankfurt Fair - The ...
The Frankfurt Book Fair, which took place in Germany last week, feels like an airport (gift shops, people movers, high ceilings, ample bathrooms, the anxiety of missing something), except you can’t go anywhere.
Satya May 06: Taking Out the Trash by Deenah Vollmer
On cleaning up New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Sam Riley's Paradise Found
“I know I have a face that can look quite forlorn sometimes,” he says, “but I’m really not a moody guy.”