There’s a cool breeze tickeling my thin shirt in the cylindar style termanal C of the “Satcho” AKA Louis Armstrong Airport in New Orleans, Louisiana. I’ve just landed and I’m chillin (literally, I thought it was supposed to be hot down ‘er) in cookie cuter stiff airport seats of the “lobby” waiting for a [...]
This weekend we went to check out the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing NY. The festival is significant in China, celebrated by a day of narrow boat races shaped like dragons. Competing teams row their boats in sync with a furious rhythm pounded out by on-board drummers. The dragon-boat [...]
There are only 69 venues in Manhattan where it’s legal to dance. Since the inception of the Cabaret Law in 1926 designed initially to curb public lewdness and interracial mixing, the laws were made tighter in the 80s by renewed building codes, neighborhood zonings and renewal laws. City wide there are 148 cabaret licenses [...]
February 14, 2007 – 8:19 pm
Do you know what this day is all about? Besides the existence of commercial retail to push material junk on the sexes in the name of emotion… St. Valentine, which is used to mark a reference to several martyred saints of ancient Rome… is in a word, shit.
One of which was a roman empire [...]
As you walk up out of the 23rd street station, the flavor of city air changes from the rank humid and stale subway variety to a unique and highly uncommon noise raising mixed aroma of charcoal, beef and spiced sauce. Thousands of people clamored around in Madison Square Park this weekend for the fourth [...]
November 1, 2005 – 2:28 pm
It’s coming up! If you haven’t marked your calendars do so now, book those posh hotels and start hitting the gym hard! I reciently was reminded and thought I would put in my two cents to the background and scene happening down in Miami these days:
I sooo want to go but I’m sill [...]
This was a trip initiated by my woman for two reasons: To see a good friend of her’s and to check out the Cherry Blossoms bloomin around DC… ahhh boyfriend duties… These are the times when you need that body double right? Well it worked out to be a fun and interesting experiance [...]
I have to say this was the first time to the WMCs, my 3rd to South Beach and this has to be the crazyist “conference” in the US. Parties were happening everywhere for a week straight: at hotels, pool patios, balconies, the beach, bars, lounges, and of course the clubs. There was no shortage [...]
February 26, 2005 – 9:41 pm
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
BY BRIAN McCOLLUM
FREE PRESS POP MUSIC WRITER
Detroit artist Kevin Saunderson has signed a three-year contract with the City of Detroit to produce Hart Plaza’s annual techno party.
With the new contract comes a new name to adorn the marquee in downtown Detroit: “Fuse-In Detroit: Electronic-Soul Movement.”
The signing, which came late [...]
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