Month: November 2011
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Ladies & Gentleman, Miss Azealia Banks
Azealia Banks has just taken me for a ride… This young woman is from Manhattan (212) and is ready to claim the entire island as her own. I suggest we all step back and see what she can do. She’s better than Bloomberg, obviously more articulate. http://azealiabanks.com Somebody give sweetthang a show in Seattle, yap? The distorted vocals…
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Book Review: ‘With/Without’
With/Without by Markus Miessen My rating: 5 of 5 stars With/Without deals primarily with the sectarian codification of space in the Middle East. And like any set of treatises on the Middle East’s urbanity, its architectural growth, it is obsessed with Dubai, that startling jewel in late Capitalism’s crown (and its voyeuristic facets). The book…
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This Blackness It Burns
Whoa, Angolan production team Nirvanas & Beats fire up the heavy kuduro. I’d never heard of these cats until tonight, but I’ve listened to Buraka Som Sistema for a long time. Buraka is a Portuguese kuduro act that can break the night. What I don’t know about kuduro could fill many books. Doesn’t matter, though.…
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“Entering the Nest – The Bold Italic – San Francisco”
The Peacock Lounge on San Francisco’s Upper Haight always intrigued me. In the years I lived there I saw it open once and promptly walked in. Greeted by a large man in a suit who put his arm around my shoulders. While smiling and asking how I was, he walked me right back out. There…