Younity presents
HEART & SOUL Exhibition and Book Launch
featuring 60 avant garde female artisits
Friday 10.17.08
ALPHABETA
70 Greenpoint Ave
(Gtrain to Greenpoint Ave)
8-10pm
RSVP to rsvp@theyounity.com
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HEART & SOUL Exhibition And Book Launch…
Thursday, October 16th, 2008NYC TO NETS: NYET YET!
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Brooklyn Arena Plagued By Poor Economy
I have been shitting on the Nets purported move to Brooklyn from day one. It’s a horrible effing idea. First of all, the Devils just moved into a brand new building in Newark. That town could use whatever help it gets from a corporate entity like the NBA coming into a building already occupied by the NHL. Keep in mind that sports teams only use these facilities for a fraction of ther year. It makes way more fiscal sense to operate a facility with two sports franchises helping to pay the light bill. Why do you think the Meadowlands has show record profits from Giants Stadium since the Jets moved in alongside them?
The second question becomes what we do with the void in space that we have by not installing an arena? My answer is on some economic evolutionary shit. Are y’all ready? Heads ain’t ready.
Affordable Living Space
I’m not talking about market rate apartments either. Sheeeeeeeit, I’m not talking about apartments at all. What Brooklyn needs is affordable living space so that people can take their home offices OUT of their homes. This will increase people’s quality of life when they have to get out of their apartments to go someplace where they have a mini-office or at least a cubicle. This will benefit all the graphic designers and journalists and shut-ins that never leave Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Williamsburg or wherever. Get out of the fucking house and go to an office. There can be communal conference rooms for people to have business meetings and there should also be several water coolers per floor.
BRUCE RATNER can expand on the MetroTech plan by offering this affordable living space to non-profits and small business incubators. I call the offices “living spaces” becasue of the time that we all spend at our respective places of employment and such. Typically we are there from 8-10 hours and we are awake and active. making dinner plans, reading blogs, talking on the phone with creditors. I live in my fucking office. My co-op apartment is just a sneaker warehouse that I sleep in from time to time. The idea of getting people out of their homes to work is so that people don’t have to take their work home with them. Let the place we lay our heads be some kind of sanctuary for our souls.
With all the doom and gloom being forecasted in the U.S. economy I predict that most of us will have to work until we die. Why can’t we work smarter instead of harder. I think a communal office setting will also lead to an increase in productivity. Mainly though, I don’t want the sucky azz Nets occupying prime Brooklyn real estate.
“What’s the deal with the Nets yo?
Playing in the East ain’t enough for ’em
Two Carters, I thought they get better
Now they getting rid of Kidd, like a miscarraige”
-Wale
New York State Of Mind…
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
ROBBIE from UnKut asked me to go in on some tracks he compiled to see which one I thought should be considered the quintessential NYC anthem.
While NaS has crafted some incredible songs paying homage to the City everyone has to bow down to Kool G Rap’s ‘Streets Of New York’. The song is on par with a Monet masterpiece from a musical standpoint.
Don’t just take my word for it (or do), you can listen to all the music that I reviewed for UnKut, and even put in your own vote for the greatest NYC anthem of all time.
88 KEYS LISTENING PARTY…
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Death Of Adam listening party
Weds Nite 10.15.08
RSVP to blaze@cornerstonepromotion.com
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Club…
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Your boy was supposed to go to the Hudson Hotel last night to big up my homey from Giant Step for his born day. Pete Rock was going to be on the 1’s and 2’s doing his thing. I was really going to hear T.R.O.Y. which might be Hip-Hop’s greatest tribute song evar.
I usually make a pit stop in this community college across the street from my day job before I go into the city. I use the internets there and check my e-mail and shit. Sometimes I write a column for the X spot, you dudes know the deal. As I was walking through the school to the computer lab I saw a poster advertising Danny Hoch and his new one-man play ‘Taking Over’. The play was going down last night for free and bong I was there in the building.
If you don’t know this cat Danny Hoch then you need to step up your Hip-Hop game. Danny Hoch might be the most Hip-Hop white dude of all time in the history of all time. He is even more Hip-Hop then about 92.375% of Black dudes who are Hip-Hop. One of the main reasons he is so Hip-Hop is that he has this incredible play ‘Taking Over’ and he is performing this shit for like three straight months for free.
Yes bitches, for FREE. I know some of you internets music thieves love that word. ‘Taking Over’ is this masterful piece of storytelling that takes you through the characters that occupy Danny Hoch’s New York City. From the real estate sellers to the slumlords to the disenfranchised Puerto Ricans we see the viewpoints from a cross section of people affected by the real estate boom in New York City. The theme is universal in that all around the country the ghettos are being transformed by the wealthy, while the suburbs are being made into ghettos.
That reminds me of my trip to Paris. I stayed in the center city right across from the Notre Dame chapel and I had to go into the suburbs to see Black people and do my sneaker shopping. This will be the same fate for New York City as it becomes a playground for only the uber-rich and the tourists who hold Euros and Sterlings. Danny Hoch expresses this idea in the play more than once through his incredible ability to instantly change characters. Hoch is a magician at this with way more talent than bullshit David Blaine. You can see he is a white dude, but he speaks so Black!?!
I said Danny Hoch was more Hip-Hop than most because he is actively fighting against the forces that created Hip-Hop. He rails against the prison industrial complex and poverty. He speaks all across the globe about their effects on people. Danny isn’t some half baked communist revolutionary in a Che Guevara shirt. He’s just a poet, ne a griot, who illustrates the world and culture we live in through words. I’m going back to see the play on Thursday night because the story is that good, and its FREE. If you live in NYC, if you grew up in NYC, if you LOVE this place called NYC then you should see this play as well.
When I hear T.R.O.Y. in the club again I will reminisce over my first love, NYC.
Danny Hoch’s ‘Taking Over’ and the Hip-Hop Theater Festival schedule