Events for all 5 senses! Food tasting in Chinatown this weekend! Ear and eye-full October 19th: new work by Bjorn Copeland (Black Dice) + live music by Lansing-Dreiden at Hiro. Do you and your cardiovascular self a favor, don’t miss the explosive duo Matt & Kim October 27th at the experimental studio/project space 3rd Ward [...]

Wow- big day for performance art… We discovered an all-star trinity of recommended events tonight that will have you zipping to mid-town, the East Village and finally Lower East Side, all in name of performance art -sort of… (*drum roll*)

(zoom+) Nikki S. Lee, The Exotic Dancers Project, 2000, Fujiflex print, 21-1/4×28-1/4 inches
First off, as you [...]

USA Today reports that coverage of sub-Saharan Africa is up to .9%. Who want’s to guess what the other 99.1% is devoted to?
CNN initiative helps get the most difficult news out of Africa
Peter Johnson
[...] Nonetheless, in 2005, network newscasts devoted less than one-half of 1% of their newscasts to sub-Saharan Africa, says network news analyst [...]

Although this post is coming to you a day late, it’s still a good idea to catch the remaining 4 scheduled episodes of “Eyes on the Prize“, PBS’s 1987 award winning documentary on the Civil Rights movement in American. The 14 hr series has not aired since 1993 because of an uncensored word appearing in [...]

I always wondered what would be the first direct-from-artist cd that I would buy off of a myspace page and after browsing many mediocre band pages I thought it would never happen.. That was before I discovered Paz Lenchantin’s Myspace page about 2 weeks before my vacation. After listening to just one clip on her [...]