Sides: The Fear Is Real by Mr. Miyagi's Theater Company.

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Rana Hajjar makes some pretty cool T-shirts using modern takes on Arabic calligraphy to spell the names of different cities (some US, some European, some where Arabic is a primary language). Neighborhoodies, take that!

And also, I've been listening to and enjoying lots a CD called Electric Gypsyland, which I heard originally in a club about a year ( Read more... )

A reason I am sad I am not going to be around this weekend:

BAM's AfroPunk Weekend of films.

And something to possibly look forward to:

Dixon Place's annual HOT! Festival of Queer Culture.

Whee!

Shy Kids with Bears, one of many pages on the Shy Kids website of creepy dolls standing in the corner for undisclosed offenses. Best present ever for parents fond of the Time Out.

Verbalisms, a new(ish?) online magazine about arts & culture with a hip hop slant. I haven't read too much of it but it looks kinda interesting. I have no idea how I ( Read more... )

I am real excited about the African Diaspora Film Festival!

Prison Ball (scroll down) looks really interesting if it lives up to its description, and hell, the whole festival looks pretty impressive.

And this weekend on the Sunday edition of Rhythm Revue with Felix Hernandez:
NEW YORK'S GREATEST SOUL RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME.
Noon - 4pm on 98.7

As I mentioned I was going to, last weekend, I attended a panel on the exhibit at the Brooklyn Musem of paintings by Kehinde WileyThe exhibit is exciting. It is based on Old Masters paintings in terms of the stances adopted by the models, but all are paintings of ( Read more... )

As you know if you read this morning's post exhorting all not chained to their job to get thee to MOMA-QNS, today was the last day of the Lee Bontecou show at ye olde MOMA-QNS. (An aside: I think MOMA should stay in Queens forever. It's such a nice different group of community people who go there, in addition to the usual desiccated art-museum ( Read more... )