Archive for 'Entertainment'
Chico Mann: Analog Drift
He combines afrobeat and freestyle like no other, and, calling electro music his “heartbeat,” Chico gives it all he’s got in his new album Analog Drift.
As a child, he grew up in a very musical Cuban family (is there anything BUT that in the Caribbean?). In the ’70s and ’80s in New York City, while [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2011 under All, Art, Entertainment, Music.
Tags: afro, afrobeat, antibalas, Music
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Politics & ‘R’ Word: Race in America
George W. Bush’s new memoir Decision Points sold 775,000 copies within its first week on the market, almost reaching total sales of Bill Clinton’s My Life. But the book did not claim the honor that a few other politicians have managed to reach: the New York Times bestseller list.
Since the book was released in the [...]
Posted: November 23rd, 2010 under All, Entertainment, Politics.
Tags: george w. bush, michelle obama, Politics, race, sarah palin
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Aerospace Engineer Uses Turntables to Educate
“It’s not rocket science,” says aerospace engineer and DJ Mark Branch about being drawn to deejaying, chuckling to himself. By day, he supervises electromagnetic tests for the Hubble Telescope at NASA; by night, he pumps out rhythms to the dancing masses, from local school children to Bill Gates and 3,000 of his closest Microsoft friends.
Mark’s [...]
Posted: November 22nd, 2010 under All, Art, Entertainment, Music.
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Things That Make You Go Swoon
Out of chaos springs beauty when it comes to illustrator and graffiti artist Swoon. “The things that drew me to [New York City] are its intensity and its harshness.”
A Florida native, Swoon illustrates her large-scale evocative portraits and with the occasional help of a small army of volunteers, cuts away until just the curves of [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2010 under All, Art, Entertainment.
Tags: Art, graffiti, Swoon, video
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