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  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    People Who Died 2011: The Year In Obituaries

    Amy Winehouse passed away on July 23. ​In memory of the people, places, and things that passed away in 2011, here's a collection of links and streaming-video artifacts.

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Live: Common Keeps The Intensity High At Highline Ballroom

    ​Common Highline Ballroom Monday, December 19 Better than: Holiday store displays involving snow globes and marionettes. On "The Sixth Sense," a DJ Premier banger and one of the greatest cuts to come out of the second golden age of hip hop, Common chided that "this industry will make you lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Heavy D, R.I.P.

    ​Mount Vernon-raised rapper Heavy D passed away yesterday. The artist, born Dwight Errington Myers, was found having problems breathing outside his home in Beverly Hills; he was taken to the emergency department of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and died later in the afternoon. For many, Heavy D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Fashion's Night Out: Beth Ditto Vamps, Sean Lennon Multitasks, Neon Indian Commands The Room

    ​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Debbie and I arrived at Fashion's Night Out like lambs to the slaughter. Never having attended before, we had no idea what kinds of mewling, puking throngs would fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Brooklyn's Summer Concert Schedule Just Got A Whole Lot Joan Jett-ier

    Joan Jett, Cheap Trick, the Monkees, Queen Latifah, Frankie Beverly and Maze, and Shaggy have all been announced as headliners for the 2011 series of Brooklyn Concerts, which are split evenly between the Martin Luther King Concert Series (held at Wingate Field) and the Seaside Summer Concert Series ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Blue Note Records' Ten Best Sample Sources

    Blue Note's cover art: Also an inspiration. (Original on the left, homage on the right.)​Hip-hop artists have never been shy about sampling songs from the vaults of the Blue Note jazz label, and few have pilfered with as much creativity and gusto as A Tribe Called Quest's one-time de facto lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Why America's E. Coli Response Makes Germany's Look Like Scheiße

    ​Each week, Death by Science gets on its hands and knees and crawls around, searching the dark world of science and technology. Often terrifying, sometimes humbling, our discoveries will make you call your best bud and go, "Wha--?" This week, we examine why Germany's E. Coli outbreak has been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Beyond Kreayshawn: The Women In Hip-Hop Who The Internet Should Freak Out About Next

    Last week, the birth of rap's newest star-to-be happened suddenly. Kreayshawn, a California rapper with Amy Winehouse's tattooes and piercings, Queen Latifah's earrings, and a modified version of Michelle Williams' pixie bob, dropped her video for "Gucci Gucci," and every person who was tweeting abo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    New Pictures of Queen Latifah Prove She Is an Evil Octopus Sea Queen

    ​Annie Leibovitz, struggling artist, has been shooting ads for Disney depicting celebrities as everyone's favorite Disney stars. The Disney Dream Portraits, their official name, kind of look like what would happen if the Vanity Fair Oscar party took place on Halloween. The Disney Parks Blog, t ... More >>

  • Film

    January 12, 2011

    The Dilemma: Not Comedy, Not Drama, Not Clever, Not Insightful

    ​Annie Leibovitz, struggling artist, has been shooting ads for Disney depicting celebrities as everyone's favorite Disney stars. The Disney Dream Portraits, their official name, kind of look like what would happen if the Vanity Fair Oscar party took place on Halloween. The Disney Parks Blog, t ... More >>

  • Music

    October 6, 2010

    Group Home Reminisce Over Guru

    The veteran rap duo pay tribute to their late mentor

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Live Blogging the Michael Jackson Memorial

    Live Video streaming by Ustream For all the lovely grace notes, homages, and eulogies that have flowed from any number of erudite and compassionate individuals in the wake of Michael Jackson's untimely death at the young age of 50, a celebrity's death is not over in American until the huge, gaudy, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    American Idol Finale Results: The Live-Blog

    Ray Mickshaw/FOX The only intrigue raised by last night's uneventful competition night of the finale was how in the world Cathy Dennis, who wrote the wonderful "Toxic" and "Can't Get You Out of My Head," collaborated with Kara DioGuardi on the awful new Idol winner's anthem, "No Boundaries." Winner ... More >>

  • Books

    March 25, 2009

    Lit Seen: John Updike and John Leonard, Writers at Rest

    New York's literary community remembers two dominant, departed presences

  • Columns

    March 11, 2008

    Christian From Project Runway Has a Boyfriend!

    Siddown and shuddup! It's da Kollege of Musical Knowledge.

  • Film

    January 8, 2008

    Mad Money

    Siddown and shuddup! It's da Kollege of Musical Knowledge.

  • Music

    October 16, 2007

    Track 18 Wins Again

    Major-label hip-hop records in burying-best-tracks shocker!

  • NYC Life

    July 24, 2007

    Watered Down

    The truth behind Hairspray

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2007
  • Film

    July 10, 2007

    Hairspray, Get Back to Your Roots!

    Movie musical of the musical of the movie is nowhere near divine

  • Columns

    May 15, 2007

    Tonys, Tonys, Tonys

    The picks of the litter. In other business: Travolta's not exactly Divine, is he?

  • NYC Life

    May 8, 2007

    Summer Movies: Free Air-Conditioning at the Cineplex

    Too hot to deal? Take shelter in the cool and dark of the matinee.

  • Music

    May 1, 2007

    The Fall of a Perfect Dive

    With Siberia closing for good, we restrain the urge to vomit one last glorious time

  • Columns

    September 5, 2006

    NY Mirror

    With Siberia closing for good, we restrain the urge to vomit one last glorious time

  • NYC Life

    May 23, 2006

    The Big Cover-Up

    Why women of color can't find good cosmetics

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2006

    Ludacris Beefs With Oprah Winfrey

    Why women of color can't find good cosmetics

  • Columns

    January 17, 2006

    NY Mirror

    Why women of color can't find good cosmetics

  • People

    January 3, 2006

    Before MTV

    Talking with Ralph McDaniels, New York VJ and hiphop's great uncle

  • Music

    June 21, 2005

    The Cotton Club

    Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience

  • Film

    March 22, 2005

    Timid Script Stifles Bernie Mac in Race-Reversed Remake

    Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience

  • Film

    February 22, 2005

    Film

    Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience

  • Columns

    February 15, 2005

    NY Mirror

    Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience

  • Film

    September 28, 2004

    Labors of Love

    They want to defy the logic of all sex laws: Auteurs tackle abortion and female circumcision

  • NYC Life

    March 9, 2004

    Close-Up on Newark

    They want to defy the logic of all sex laws: Auteurs tackle abortion and female circumcision

  • Columns

    February 10, 2004

    NY Mirror

    They want to defy the logic of all sex laws: Auteurs tackle abortion and female circumcision

  • Columns

    November 4, 2003

    NY Mirror

    They want to defy the logic of all sex laws: Auteurs tackle abortion and female circumcision

  • Music

    October 21, 2003

    Woman of Influence

    Seducing, sermonizing, showing off her best instrument

  • NYC Life

    May 27, 2003

    Close-Up on Jersey City

    Seducing, sermonizing, showing off her best instrument

  • News

    May 13, 2003

    Afrofuturistic

    Poet Tracie Morris Looks Ahead to the Past

  • Columns

    March 25, 2003

    NY Mirror

    Poet Tracie Morris Looks Ahead to the Past

  • Film

    October 8, 2002

    Could Be Verse

    Poet Tracie Morris Looks Ahead to the Past

  • Film

    June 4, 2002

    Declining Women

    Poet Tracie Morris Looks Ahead to the Past

  • News

    February 13, 2001

    Clit Club

    V-Day’s Charismatic Cuntism Rocks the Garden

  • News

    July 4, 2000

    Call and Response

    Targeting Silent Rappers: A Street Fight for Justice or Hip Hop McCarthyism?

  • Music

    December 7, 1999

    Semi-Charmed Second Life

    Targeting Silent Rappers: A Street Fight for Justice or Hip Hop McCarthyism?

  • Film

    November 9, 1999

    Death and the Maidens

    Targeting Silent Rappers: A Street Fight for Justice or Hip Hop McCarthyism?

  • Columns

    October 12, 1999

    NY Mirror

    Targeting Silent Rappers: A Street Fight for Justice or Hip Hop McCarthyism?

  • News

    August 10, 1999

    The Conversation

    Tina Brown Gets a Buzz Cut

  • Columns

    January 12, 1999

    NY Mirror

    Definitely honor-free will be Joseph Fiennes for Shakespeare (sorry, but the Bard didn't look like Rob Lowe).

  • Music

    September 1, 1998

    Educating Lauryn

    Definitely honor-free will be Joseph Fiennes for Shakespeare (sorry, but the Bard didn't look like Rob Lowe).

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