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“Our Latin Thing” (Nuestra Cosa) and the Birth of Salsa
View Larger Map The New York Times of August 21, 2011 published an article, “It Happened One Night at the Cheetah,” on the salsa documentary, “Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa),” the 40th anniversary version of which was about to be released. The original was directed by Leon Gast, who would go on to win an ...Is Manhattan’s famous Cheetah Club the Birthplace of Salsa
Cheetah was a discotheque in Manhattan, New York City which opened May 28, 1966, and closed in the 1970s. The club was located at 53rd Street and Broadway. View Larger Map According to Steven Watson’s “Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties” it “was the granddaddy of the big commercial disco”.[2] “The most elaborate discotheque was ...Submerge Records
View Larger Map On East Grand Boulevard, some of Detroit Techno’s fiercest tracks have been conceived,recorded and pressed for the world to wonder about. In addition to being the home of Submerge, 3000 E. Grand Blvd. is also the world headquarters of the seminal techno group, Underground Resistance, led by Mad Mike Banks, the wunderkind ...Where is the birthplace of Merengue?
Merengue is a type of music and dance from the Dominican Republic…Most think Merengue was created by Ñico Lora, a Dominican of Spanish descent, in the 1920s. In the Dominican Republic it was promoted by Rafael Trujillo, the dictator from the 1930 to 1961, and became the country’s national music and dance style, while in the United States. via Wikipedia Many questions remain for those ...Beat This! A Hip-Hop History
Watch the film “Beat This! A hip hop history” to learn more about the origins of Hip Hip music and rap, as well as the other aspects of this artform’s culture like break dancing and graffiti. Where did Hip Hop originate, how has it evolved and who or what made Hip Hop music popular? In ...Events
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Support American Censorship Day
There's allot of buzz about SOPA (and it’s sister bill PIPA) but do you really know what it is all about? Here's a crash course video by Fight for the Future. Here’s some quick background:
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites so long as they can convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”
The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any…
ContinuePosted by Urban Universe Productions on January 18, 2012 at 3:00pm
Red Tails - Lucasfilms project on the Tuskeegee Airmen Launches Jan 20th!
We've been looking forward to a feature film on this long over looked part of American history. Well, after a roller coaster of post production buzz about issues and reshoots, its finally launching Jan 20th... so be sure to support. It's full of state of the art CGI air combat scenes that seem pretty impressive from the film's trailer.
Here is the trailer:
"Red Tails" is the true story of the Tuskegee Airmen who fought with the Allied forces in World War II. The Tuskegee men paved the way for equal treatment of African Americans in the armed forces. The story is punctuated by that fact that segregated African American pilots were were given second-rate planes and missions initially after they were shipped out into combat. But when a dangerous mission arose -- providing safe escort to bombers in broad daylight -- the Tuskegee pilots…
ContinuePosted by Urban Universe Productions on January 6, 2012 at 3:00am
PBS Launches Augmented Reality Game: Fetch! Lunchtime Rush
Fetch! Lunchtime Rush is an app that is sure to blow the minds of your kids! It is meant to allow kids to practice math in a game-like environment that uses Alternate Reality (AR) as a fun hook. AR means you to use your phone or Tablet's camera to overlay "virtual" objects on real things in your environment. Fetch uses a card cut-out with numbers and a small QR code to display pieces of sushi for the child to count.
The free FETCH! Lunch Rush app (iTunes App Store link) requires a bit of quick work from you before you can use it with your kids-- you need, scissors, a printer and paper to get started. The app displays arithmetic problems which have answers that range from one to ten. The goal is to point the iPhone or iPod touch’s camera at the AR marker with the correct answer and touch the marker on the screen. 3D…
ContinuePosted by Urban Universe Productions on November 26, 2011 at 1:00pm
Occupy Wall Street Reaction :: Open Letter to Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York
Written by Kevin Powell is an activist, public speaker, and author or editor of 10 books.
Dear Mayor Bloomberg:
I was awakened in the wee hours of this morning by texts and calls from friends and associates distraught that Occupy Wall Street protestors were being forcibly removed from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. Even more troubling is that you chose to make a mockery of the First Amendment of our United States Constitution by not only evicting the peaceful activists, but also by blocking media outlets from recording the police raid. This is America, Mr. Bloomberg, a nation that through much effort, tears, blood, and, yes, deaths, has evolved from a slaveholding country that also destroyed much of Native American culture, to one where women, people of color, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, the physically… |
Posted by Urban Universe Productions on November 20, 2011 at 1:00pm
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