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Archive for September, 2008

Piecebook - Signing @ The Strand - New York City

By Rab Bakari • Sep 30th, 2008 • Category: Events, Graffiti

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Greetings all,
Sacha and Chino will be at The Strand this Thursday - October 2nd 2008 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm.
We’ll be showing slides, discussing Piecebook and signing copies. If your in the area please stop in.

The Strand
828 Broadway
(at 12th street)
New York, New York
10003-4805
Phone: 212.473.1452
Directions by subway:
Take the: N, R, Q, W, 4, 5, 6 [...]



MySpace possibly excludes independent music artist

By Rab Bakari • Sep 30th, 2008 • Category: Music

There will be an “exodus” of music artists from MySpace in a row over the website’s new music download service, a record label boss has warned.
Independent record labels have cried foul after failing to reach a deal for their acts to appear on MySpace Music.
“MySpace has been floundering lately already, and people have been [...]



AmberMac Meet Up - New York

By Rab Bakari • Sep 27th, 2008 • Category: Events, Features

Internet spokeswoman and and a post-year 2000 web portal advocate Amber MacArthur (affectionately called..Amber Mac) blessed New York City with her presence yesterday. She took an opportunity on a personal visit to invite some of her internet contacts for a Meet-Up in Manhattan’s Times Square area. Her Mom, her Toronto roommate and her roommate’s mom [...]



JetBlue eBay airfares and vacation packages

By Rab Bakari • Sep 8th, 2008 • Category: Events

Are you an eBay user? Get ready to do some intensive bidding on eBay for cheaper-than-normal airfares to select destinations and vacation packages.
JetBlue Airways Corp. started a week-long auction on eBay on September 7th for more than 300 round-trip flights and six vacation packages.
Opening bids were set at between 5 and 10 cents but quickly [...]



Meeting of Styles - Montréal - 2008

By Rab Bakari • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Events

29-31 August 2008, MEETING OF STYLES MONTRÉAL (Canada)
Montréal is the second-largest city in Canada with a population of 1,620,693 inhabitants in the city and up from 3,451,027 in the metropolitan area. Montréal’s metro is renowned for its architecture and public art. Under the direction of Drapeau, a competition among Canadian architects was held to decide [...]



Fela is on Broadway…well sort of!

By Rab Bakari • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Africa, Features

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is one of Africa’s and possibly the world most revered, innovative musician of the latter part of the 20th century. He was from Nigeria. Fela is usually branded as a musician first then political activist second.
He recorded over 40 albums and 500 hundred songs. His self-titled Afro-Beat fit right in with the music [...]



Being A DJ has it’s Perks! Get in anywhere..for Free!

By Rab Bakari • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: DJaying, Features

This guy in this YouTube video proves that he can get into any club dressed like a DJ, but the gear has it’s limitations. Find out how he does his ‘thing’! Not sure if this will work in New York City.



TRAINS OF THOUGHT - Montréal, Canada

By Rab Bakari • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Events, Graffiti, Lead Story

TRAINS OF THOUGHT
Curated by Streets Are Saying Things.Com and Yves Laroche.Com
The show opens in Montreal at on August 29th 2008, 6pm-9pm @ Galerie d’Art Yves Laroche, 4 St-Paul Est. Old Montreal, H2Y 1G1 www.yveslaroche.com. Please call for info 514.393.1999.
Trains Of Thought is a new show that features the most talented and fresh artists in the [...]