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Ninoy Brown

A Dream Realized

By Ninoy Brown, Feb 10, 2010 6:34 PM

February 5, 2010, The New Parish in Oakland (previously known as Jimmie’s Nightclub) is filled with a diverse range of faces to celebrate and remember the life of Mike “Dream” Francisco. Three year old’s hit the floor rockin’ their best b-boy/b-girl moves along with veteran popper, Bionic Man. Older heads recollect their memories of chillin’ and mentoring the legendary graffiti writer, younger heads recall the pieces he created which inspired them to pick up a can, and his counterparts remembered the escapades.

(Via FOBBDeep)

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Sandip Roy

The Homeless Ghosts of Calcutta

By Sandip Roy, Oct 31, 2009 1:10 PM

 Listen to this commentary on NPR.org

Every day at dusk, I go around the house turning on the lights.

My grandmother did it. My mother still does it. It’s well-known that twilight is the perfect time for wandering ghosts to sneak into the house.

Haunted houses in India don’t have just one ghost. It could be a whole family. There are shankchunnis and petnis, ghosts of women unlucky in love who wear saris and pounce on eligible young men. Brahmodoityas are the ghosts of Brahmans, and might bless you or curse you. The skondhokatas are the headless ghosts of people who died in train accidents. They sound terrifying, but because they don’t have heads, you can trick them easily. But you have to watch out for the very dangerous nishi, who call people by name in the dead of night and lead them away, never to be seen again.

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Inga Buchbinder

MJ Fever: A Swine Flu Derivative

By Inga Buchbinder, Jul 7, 2009 4:54 PM

 There has been a lot of hooplah in the news about MJ's--The King of Pop-- death. Journalists all over the country are digging up the ultimate source hoping to get an inside look into this man who we all know through his music but not in any other way.

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Laura Goode

Notorious, or less than

By Laura Goode, Jan 27, 2009 10:16 AM

Suppressing my inner cheapskate, I dropped $11 at the Metreon last night to go see Notorious, The Notorious B.I.G. biopic that just came out for no apparent reason.  I've been aware of the film for longer than most because part of it (a very short chase scene, as it turns out) was filmed on my old block in Brooklyn (check out the link for more than you ever wanted to know about the Franklin Ave. shuttle, a relic of an MTA gone by that makes a brief cameo), much to my delight and that of my Prospect Heights neighbors.  The imagery of Brooklyn, my lover from another lifetime, was unfortunately the best part of my Notorious experience.  The street footage of Bed-Stuy-do-or-die is authentic; I could pretty much smell the familiar KFC refuse and blunt smoke every time the camera landed on the intersection of Fulton and St. James.

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