Blue Velvet News

Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: Ron Hawkins Art+Music, presenting an art show on Friday and a performance on Saturday.

A frequent collaborator with former AFI co-student David Lynch, Frederick Elmes has supplied a dreamy, super-realistic visual style to four of Lynch's features, including "Eraserhead" and more recently, "Wild at Heart" . Raised in New Jersey, he became interested in photography when he was lent a Leica camera by his father.

By P. Scott Cunningham , Natalie O'Neill , Lee Klein , Arielle Castillo Published on November 03, 2009 at 2:56pm Jeff Kinney Details: Miami Book Fair International: November 8 through 15.

The Men Who Stare at Goats centres on the US army's attempt to train men to stare live goats to death.

Actually, in the opening scene alone Ben is having a full-fledged conversation with his penis! TVGuide.com caught up with the movie icon to get his take on how this character's kind of crazy compared to ones past, as well as one surprising talent he has that earned him international acclaim.

Dennis Hopper is battling prostate cancer, and it's seriously messing up his travel schedule .

Dennis Hopper, known as one of cinemaa s a oebad boysa and actor of such films as Rebel Without a Cause, Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet and a host has been diagnoses with prostate cancer .

The 73-year-old, who directed and acted in 1969's Easy Rider with Peter Fonda, has cancelled all forthcoming appointments, including a trip to Melbourne, Australia, for an exhibition titled Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood .

It was revealed today that actor, director, artist, and all around cool dude Dennis Hopper is fighting prostate cancer .

Dennis Hopper has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is canceling all travel plans to focus on treatment.

This easy rider has a tough ride ahead. Dennis Hopper is battling prostate cancer, according to the actor's manager, and will be cancelling all upcoming travel plans to focus on treatment.

It is a mild anaesthetic, a rocket fuel and a propellant in aerosols. Nitrous oxide, the multi-purpose chemical also known as laughing gas, now has another use: it has taken off as the fashionable - and apparently legal - recreational drug of choice in clubs and dance venues.

Las Vegas Herald Thursday 22nd October, 2009 Nevada , Oct 22 : Oscar nominated helmer David Lynch frequently tweets verses from ancient Hindu scripture Bhagavad-Gita. Here are some examples of Lynch's tweets: "You have control over action alone, never over its fruits.

Actress Laura Dern has signed up for a role in the next installment in the "Meet the Parents" film franchise, sources told The Hollywood Reporter.

Expel from your mind the stereotyped image of the robed, bearded yogi. Forget the worn image of the unkempt, hash-headed, lotus-seated hippy listening to sitar music in an incense-filled room behind a beaded curtain.

The "Art of Healing" exhibit at Allied Arts has been open since Sept. 17, but it got a late addition last week that has drawn new attention.

A good way to determine if you'd enjoy Richard Hawley 's Truelove's Gutter , the former Pulp guitarist's fifth solo release, is to recall the 'candy colored clown' scene from Blue Velvet .

Xris Kessler with a oeCommunity Watch,a one in the series of eight paintings he based on the 1975 documentary a oeGrey Gardens.a Credit: Harry Taylor/News & Record Want to go? What: "Staunch" a series of paintings by Greensboro native Xris Kessler based on the 1975 documentary "Grey Gardens" When: 6-9 p.m. Frday; on view through Oct.

Actor Dennis Hopper has been released from a New York hospital after checking in with flu-like symptoms and being treated for dehydration.

YOU might not think of golf as a sensual sport, but when actor Kyle MacLachlan a ' whose first venture before the cameras was as the star of David Lynch's movie Blue Velvet a ' was growing up in Yakima, Washington, it was the smell, the shape and the feel of the game's accoutrements that piqued his curiosity.