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Africa News Roundup: Kenyatta and the ICC, Niger Bombings, Northern Kenya, Libya, Algeria, and More
AP: With the help of French special forces, Niger’s military on Friday killed the last two jihadists holed up inside a dormitory on the grounds of a military garrison in the desert town of Agadez, and freed at least two … Continue reading ?
Talk Radio's Funny Secret
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Most folks do one thing for a living and are happy that way. I'm not. I need a lot of challenges that change all the time. I have a lot of different occupations, acting, playing music, writing and talk radio host on an LA station.
Of the latter, I knew nothing about the genre at all when I got into it 10 1/2 years ago. Show More Summary
Brian Formo: Another Year, More Voices for Young Americans: An Interview with Lance Bangs
Lance Bangs spent his youth making music videos for bands such as Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Belle & Sebastian and The Shins, and, among other camera jobs, lensing episodes of Jackass.
Mind Boggling
Today on the 101 headed home from gym, I saw a 2010 GMC SUV with the bumper stickers "Who Is John Galt?" and "I Love Capitalism" on the back. If memory serves, said vehicle was made after the US Government saved said company via loans, that is, taxpayer dollars. I guess this is the right-wing whackaloon version of "Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac".
Jason Salzman: No Justification for Reporters to Label Coffman a "Moderate"
Objectively, the word "moderate" does not come to mind if you look at the majority of Rep. MikeCoffman's record. There's no justification for journalists to label him as a "moderate."
Local Girl Creates Boo Berry-4505 Meats' Chicharrones Cereal Bar Brilliance
Amy Cleary, author of WineBookGirl, has a daughter, "K," who is some sort of modern gastronomic genius. Anyone who incorporates Boo Berry and 4505 Meats' famous chicharrones must be. [ more › ]
Wyatt Closs: 10 Songs Simmering This Summer to Kick Off Memorial Day Weekend From the Incredible Selector/DJ Gilles Peterson
BBC Radio's Gilles Peterson, who I met about 12 years ago, has been connecting musical dots for over a generation. He is now blending soul, funk, latin, house, jazz, hip-hop in an effortless manner that makes it seem like jumbling those genres is exactly how it should be.
Old Mercedes Benzes Never Die, They Just Go To the Western Addition – Introducing the New Mexico Mercedes Militia
TweetLet’s see here, we’ve got a G-Wagen, another G-Wagen, A W123 and another W123 Click to expand I know there’s something going on, but I don’t know what it is.
An Accumulation of links for urbanists
Including America's most bikeable neighbourhoods, love trains, lost buildings, world's most expensive train station, breakthrough technologies, and are shopping arcades the new laneways?,...
Weiner Rises!
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Midnight Wednesday, Anthony Weiner--who resigned from Congress two years ago because of a "sexting" scandal--has announced he will run for mayor of New York City. He will enter a crowded field...Show More Summary
Marin County Declares 'Soda Free Summer'
No more Mr. Pibb. No more Diet Rite. No more Shasta. No more Slice. This summer in Marin, soda is as out as driving a black 1999 Range Rover. [ more › ]
Off Key Comedy Aims to Fuse Stand-Up and Song
A musical-comedy showcase tries to shake the genre's lame reputation. Even with the success of acts like Lonely Island and Flight of the Conchords, people still tend to view musical comedy with some suspicion, and not without reason....Show More Summary
Robert J. Elisberg: It Takes a Lot of Chutzpah
Over the weekend, I was invited to a screening up a new, 11-part webseries, Dude, Where's My Chutzpah?, a one-woman circus (with a lot of help from her friends) by Jessie Kahnweiler, who wrote, directed, produced and stars in the series as... Jessie Kahnweiler.
Determined to Satirize the Suburbs, Yolk Region gets Cracking
An Onion-style parody site takes aim at news and politics in York Region. Aside from our brief flirtation with the likes of RebelMayor, the 416 just hasn’t had any ongoing political satire of note (arguably it hasn’t needed it lately, but let’s put that aside for now). Show More Summary
An Interview About Shoot
For the curious, and for the haters, a long interview with Saint Genet director Ryan Mitchell (about Paradisiacal Rites, about Shoot, about the Jackass phenomenon, about whether pulling a performance stunt like Shoot is just a cheapShow More Summary
A Daily Dose of Music: Old School Thursdays
Hiroko's still stranded on the island of Puerto Rico, so she has left me in charge of keeping the Daily Dose alive. In today's segment, we're going to dive into the opening theme of a series that was a fated encounter for me.
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Video: The City of London At Night, From The Air
Aerial footage of the City of London at night from JasonHawkes on Vimeo. Aerial photographer Jason Hawkes has posted this short video, taken during a flight over the Square Mile’s skyscrapers last night. Of note are the nearly topped-out...Show More Summary
“There Is A Sense Of Home About London”: iamamiwhoami Chat Ahead Of Brixton Show
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When iamamiwhoami (that’s: i am – am i – who am i) first started chucking bonkers videos upon an otherwise unsuspecting YouTube population in December 2009, nobody – and that includes the Swedish group themselves...Show More Summary
Activists’ zine documents violent arrests at SF State
According to a handwritten account in the activists' zine, Carlos Cruz had "bruises on elbows, knees, legs [and] throat."
Emotions ran high at San Francisco State University on May 21, where a group of activists held a rally decrying police officers’ excessive use of force in an incident that occurred last Thursday, May 16. Show More Summary
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Apple Pie May Be American, But Apple Computer Isn't - Not Anymore
Apple's $100 billion in offshore profits is managed in Reno, tracked by accountants in Austin, and stored in Manhattan banks. That's called having your apple and eating it too. It's up to our leaders, not corporate executives, to fix this problem.
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