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Africa climate scientists and user community representatives have crafted a common climate research agenda to inform decision-making, climate risk management and adaptation planning in Africa.
More than 300 delegates at the Africa Climate Conference 2013 (ACC2013) in Arusha, Tanzania, 15-18 October, adopted a statement identifying four priority areas for research in order to address critical gaps in our understanding of the African climate system and to bridge the divide between climate science and policy:
The statement also stressed the need for a platform to coordinate major climate research initiatives working on Africa and to sustain implementation of the African climate research agenda.
Dr. Salack Seyni, the winner of ACC 2013 Poster Session
The outcome of the Arusha conference, the first of its kind, will inform debate at the Third Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA–III) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 21–23 October 2013. The theme of this year's conference is "Africa on the rise: can the opportunities from climate change spring the continent to transformative development".
WMO Deputy Secretary-General Jerry Lengoasa delivered keynote addresses at both conferences, highlighting the role of the Global Framework for Climate Services and the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology.
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The Africa Climate Conference was organized under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the African Climate Policy Center (ACPC) and the University of Dar Es Salaam.


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A Watford teacher who came out as gay at a school assembly has become world famous after a pupil emailed him a heartfelt letter of thanks - which gained millions of views on social media and a phone call from the Ellen DeGeneres Show in America.
David Weston, who started his career in teaching at Watford Boys Grammar School in 2003, battled through a potentially fatal liver illness and after a life saving transplant decided he wanted to address the school with an assembly about what it means to be gay, the law and homophobia.
During the assembly in 2010, Mr Weston, who was born and raised in Nascot, came out as gay and announced his engagement to his now civil partner.
Now, four years later, he received an email out of the blue from a pupil who was in that assembly.
I came out as a gay teacher in a whole-school assembly in 2010. Today, 4 years later, I just received this email. Wow pic.twitter.com/Wdgzo4n3lf— David Weston (@informed_edu) August 12, 2014
Richard Miah wrote: "I just wanted you to know how inspirational your assembly was, and how much of a positive impact it had on the school...
"I know this message may seem a little pointless but I really felt you should know that you challenged the ignorance of so many people that day, and if every gay teacher shared your courage, then the world would be a much better place - not just for gay men, but for all of us. For that I thank you."
The 34-year-old posted the letter on social media and was shocked by the response.
He said: "Within 15 minutes it had more than 100 retweets. ITV got in touch, then BBC news and 5Live, newspapers - I've been blown away by the response. It's had nearly 10,000 retweets and favourites and it's been posted on facebook pages and got more than 40,000 likes, on one facebook page it was seen by 1.7million people.
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Mr Weston said he realised after his surgery that being a teacher meant being a role model and that he wanted to be open about his sexuality if anybody asked.
Mr Weston, himself a former pupil at Watford Boys Grammar School, said: "I was given a second chance. I thought that if family, colleagues, friends - if everyone knew someone gay no-one would need to be afraid. I was quite emotional - it was something I had to do.
"When you are a teacher, you're a role model for your students. After I recovered I spoke to the headteacher, Martin Post, and said I'm gay and I want to be open about it if anyone asks. We talked about doing an assembly about homophobic language.
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Mr Weston, who is now lives in Harrow and is chief executive of Teacher Development Trust, continued: "No-one should have to hide who they are at work. As teachers we are marking, preparing lessons - it's relentless. But we are role models too and we have got to model being comfortable with ourselves, happy and confident to young people in our schools."
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If you have ever dreamed of doing Italy & Greece, jump on board!
This special Cruise & Land Tour has it all. It gives you the very best of Italy, Greece and Ephesus, Turkey. If you have ever dreamed of doing Italy and Greece, jump on board. This fantastic vacation is for you! Italy is hard to see from a ship as there just isn't enough time in port to really experience cities like Rome and Florence. With our well planned land tour we will be able to take the time to really enjoy Rome and Florence as well as visiting places the ship does not stop – places like San Gimignano, Ravenna, Tuscany, the Italian countryside and so much more. We even visit Verona home of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Throughout your land tour we will we stay in deluxe hotels and tour in deluxe buses.
We have added to your fantastic vacation Dr. S. Michael Wilcox; the very best educator for this part of the world. He will bring to life the history and magic of all that you will see and experience. This cruise tour has sold out every year we have offered it with Michael. We usually turn away almost as many as have signed up. This is one tour you do not want to wait to make your reservation.
We do our own Shore Excursions!
Our cruise portion of your special vacation starts in the romantic city Venice. From your beautiful Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas you will visit Venice (home of gondola's and canals), Dubrovnik Croatia (one of the best walled cities in Europe), Ephesus Turkey (one of the best ancient ruins in the world), Santorini Greece (Greece's most beautiful island) and Katakolon Italy.
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Package Price: $2,995*
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Does not include international airfare and tips.
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Day 1: Sep 11: Fly to Rome.
We depart our home and travel to Rome.
Day 2: Sep 12: Rome
This morning we will arrive into Rome – our tour of Rome today will include Trevi Fountain, which has been made famous by many movies including "Three Coins in a Fountain". We will also visit the Pantheon and one of the best small museums in the world – the Bernini Museum. We will overnight in a deluxe hotel in Rome.
Day 3: Sep 13: Rome
This morning early we will visit a separate country, Vatican City. We will visit St. Peters Basilica (the largest church in the world), St. Peters Square, the Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chapel. In the afternoon we will visit the magnificent Coliseum and the Forum before returning to our deluxe hotel.
Day 4: Sep 14: Rome / Pisa / Florence
We will spend the day traveling through the Tuscany Countryside visiting small villages, San Gimignano and Pisa before heading to Florence where we will overnight.
Day 5: Sep 15: Florence
We will have a full day to enjoy Florence and all that it has to offer. We will spend the day visiting the center of the Renaissance, whose liberating ideas helped pave the way for the reformation. This city is the home to the Medici family, Michelangelo, Leonardo de Vinci and Dante. We will take a guided tour of the old city, visiting such sites as the Piazza del Duomo, including the beautiful Baptistery Doors that inspired Michelangelo. We will also visit the original statue of David in the Academy Museum. You will have time to shop in the old streets of Florence and also time to enjoy the many sidewalk cafes before returning to our hotel this evening.
Day 6: Sep 16: Florence / Ravenna / Venice
This morning we will travel to Ravenna, a World Heritage Site. Here they have some of the best ancient mosaic floors and walls found anywhere in the world. We will then continue to Venice to overnight.
Day 7: Sep 17: Venice – Board your Royal Caribbean Ship
For those who purchased our optional shore excursion today we will spend the morning touring and exploring Venice. After our tour you will have time to walk the many old streets and bridges found in Venice. You will also have time to enjoy a gondola boat ride and eat in one of the many quaint sidewalk cafés. Mid-afternoon we will head to our ship to check in. (Anyone who does not purchase the shore excursion package will be dropped off at the Venice Airport where they will be transfered through the cruise line to the ship before the group starts there tour.)
Day 8: Sep 18: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Today will be a highlight day as you will be able to experience one of the best walled cities in Europe. For those who purchased our optional shore excursion package we will have a tour in and around Dubrovnik. Before we disembark you will at 11:30am, we will meet with our guest Educator: Dr. S. Michael Wilcox.
Day 9: Sep 19: Fun Day at Sea
Today will be a free day to relax and enjoy your day at sea. We will also be meeting with Dr. S. Michael Wilcox twice today preparing us for Ephesus tomorrow.
Day 10: Sep 20: Ephesus Turkey
The ship is parked in Kusadasi, a fair distance to Ephesus. For those who purchased our optional shore excursion package will visit Ephesus and the surrounding area.
Day 11: Sep 21: Santorini Greece
Not all islands are created equal. Santorini is a 10 on a scale of one to 10 and is the most beautiful of the Greek Islands. For those who purchased our optional shore excursion package will have a tour of this beautiful island. We will return later in the afternoon to meet again with Michael.
Day 12: Sep 22: Katakolon Greece
We will again offer our own optional shore excursion for the surrounding area.
Day 13: Sep 23: Fun Day at Sea
Today will be another day to relax on the ship and time to enjoy our guest educator: Dr. S Michael Wilcox.
Day 14: Sep 24: Venice
This morning we arrive back into Venice. After clearing the ship we will drive to Verona, home of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This is one of the most picturesque old cities in Europe. After a tour of the old town, you will have time to explore and have lunch at one of the many sidewalk cafes. This evening we will head to Padova to overnight at your deluxe hotel.
Day 15: Sep 25: Fly Home
This morning we will head to the airport for your flight back to the US and home. You will arrive home the same day.


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The Tukuche peak is located in the western Nepal Himalayas between the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri Ranges. Although relatively less explored, Tukuche is one of most exotic mountain climb in Nepal. Despite being a technical climb, it's nonetheless a favorite training mountain even among the prospective 8,000er climbers. The peak lies north of the exotic Hidden Valley. The summit of Tukuche Peak also offers great vistas of the surrounding Himalayas including the Annapurna Ranges, Nilgiri and also of the nearby villages such as Marpha and Jomsom.Our Tukuche Peak Expedition begins with flights from Kathmandu to Pokhara and Pokhara to Jomsom. From Jomsom, we head west to the Marpha village, Yak Kharka, Hidden Valley, and Tukuche Base Camp. After proper acclimatization and training, we summit the Tukuche Peak and return via the same route. From Jomsom, we make a return flight to Pokhara and then to Kathmandu


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According to the Center for Disease Control, arthritis is the leading cause of disability in the United States.1
Arthritis is so widespread that more than 20 million people are living with the disease.2
Common treatments for arthritis include over-the-counter and prescription drugs, some of which have very harmful side effects, but a new and tasty alternative may offer some much-needed joint pain relief!
If you experience joint pain and arthritis, then you need to know about green tea. Packed with powerful antioxidants, green tea is a healthy drink, but new studies show that it also fights joint inflammation!
Anyone with arthritis pain knows that it can affect daily life, making small tasks like writing and walking unbearable, but a recent study found that green tea can soothe arthritic joints.
Researchers at the University of Michigan discovered that green tea contains a compound called epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG for short). EGCG inhibits the production of the molecules that contribute to inflammation and joint damage in people with rheumatoid arthritis.3
The EGCG in green tea suppresses inflammation in the connective tissue of arthritis sufferers too.4
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People in China have been drinking green tea for thousands of years, and it's no wonder. Green tea has amazing health benefitsand it tastes good!
Green tea has a variety of compounds that contribute to well being, including polyphenols, catechins, and antioxidants. These substances work in your body to fight harmful, damaged cells and to boost your immunity.
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'Heavy Rain' Video Game Taps Into Primal Parental Emotions
For many gamers, the question of whether a video game could make you cry was answered back in 1997 by Final Fantasy VII.
But many of those who were carried away by that game's tragedies have had few titles in the interim to get emotionally involved with.
As it happens, many of us have also started families in that time. It's late at night, after I've put my two daughters to bed, that I have been playing Heavy Rain, a new PlayStation 3 game that focuses on catching a serial killer who preys on young boys.
In the game, you play as four characters including a private detective, an FBI agent, a journalist and, most interestingly, a father who is beset by multiple tragedies in the opening hours of the game.
You begin the game controlling this character, an architect named Ethan Mars, and, in what you could either call engaging storytelling or manipulation, you spend some time playing in the back yard with your two sons, and in a later section, trying to entertain your kid at a park by pushing him on a swing or spinning a merry-go-round.
Things get dark very, very quickly. So much so that despite imperfect voice acting and a control scheme that is more distracting than organic to the game, Heavy Rain has rattled me. The game features very polished environments and near-photorealistic characters and as the clock ticks and the life of a young boy is at risk, it's hard not to find yourself invested.
Mike Krahulik, who draws the popular Penny Arcade Web comic (and who is the father of a young son), wrote on the site recently:
If you're a parent, (especially a Dad) this game can be pretty difficult to play at times. In fact I'm curious if people who don't have kids will end up getting as much out of it. I don't know if it's an 89.85%, or a 9.7 out of 10. What I do know is that after a late night playing it, I sneak into my son's room and hug him before I go to bed.
What's remarkable to me is that while the controversial airport massacre scene in last year's Modern Warfare 2 left me cold and unimpressed, Heavy Rain, as a story, at least, is tapping into my worst fears as a parent. Somehow, it manages to do that with a strong amount of artistry that manages not to feel exploitative.
How amazing is it that in the same year when we saw a big-budget breasts-and-sword-hacking action game made out of Dante's Inferno that we would also see one of the most mature, emotionally resonant pieces of interactive entertainment yet?
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Lets play!, but mom said we shouldnt enter the dark forest?...i will protect you little brother...it's ok...
awesome blackeagle
nice orginal pic
nice one man. Nice composition and mood, works really nicely with black&white. Its very clean and sharp. Only thing is that those kids are maybe too middle of the photo. But great shot
Sexah. Once again, you amaze me. Great job man.
Very nice picture.. its so cute +Fav
ohhh...gut gut...ehehehe
Aah! Nice!
Eric, what've i told you about taking pictures of the little kiddies in the park?! It's like;
On the other hand, brilliant picture, maybe just a bit oversharpened tho
On the other hand, brilliant picture, maybe just a bit oversharpened tho
A lovely shot bro, great focus, and perspective. gj!
really nice shot m8! looks like it was in 60'S ...damn nice
Nice photo. I'm liking the double border created by the actual border and the goal.
haa... the days....
ghehe yeah cool huh walking around in dipers...tax free...havent got to do anything...being lazy 24 hours a day...damn those were the days
thnx for comment
thnx for comment
you're forgetting about king size boobs and no work to suck on them (ok... this is a obscene and disgusting thought but i have a weird sense of humour... )
haha i got to agree with you there, now days you would get slapped if you do it, back then it was a MUST haha
yeah... mankind whould be so much better whouldnt it? just think abou it... coming home after a day's work and the first thing was to grab a pair of huge breasts and suck on them until all the worry's go away ohhh... that whould sure end all the anger in the world..
hehe cute +fav
ik zweer het je daar loopt de nieuwe van basten 0_0... anyway goeie foto man, vooral de lichten zijn hier erg lekker
Cute pic,i like the shapness and the b/w
aaah wat liefff !!!
Awesome, love how you have used the sharpness.


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This is a classic Jagger/Richards gem that often gets overlooked amidst the more well known radio songs contained on Sticky Fingers. A pure blues/soul offering, it features the best of what the Stones were known for during the golden era between '68 and '74: soul searching, simplistic, yet elegant vocals delivered by Jagger during the absolute pinnacle of his career, a soulful country blues progression played by Richards, with powerful blues improvs by virtuouso Mick Taylor, backed by the rock solid rhythmn of Watts and Wyman, and featuring the ever present and quality combo of Bobby Keys and Jimmy Price on tenor sax and trumpet respectively.
This song is perhaps best known for the blistering Hammond B3 organ solo played by Billy Preston during the interlude. The Hammond section shreds the melodic and relaxed atmosphere presented by Richards and Taylor with a blistering 34 seconds of pure soul wrenching blues licks, representing yet again why the B3 is one of the top instruments associated with that genre of music.
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Modele: Jordan
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Beautiful body...!!
Wow! that's so graceful.
Wow! So sexy!
this is extremely sexy without frontal nudiety, The way Jordan is curling his toes suggests an impending orgasm.
Beautifully lit image. Nice dark areas and a splash of colour.
omg... that bulge *drool*
J'avais reconnu l'auteur de la photo au style de la photo !!!
Remarquable éclairage -- quant au modèle, je suis sans voix...
Remarquable éclairage -- quant au modèle, je suis sans voix...
Love the pose. He looks so naturally beautiful
How did I miss him? VERY NICE....flawless!
beautiful body and i love the splashes of color pattern and texture in the photo
excellent shot - nice pose good looking model
This is a very inviting photo. I like the color scheme you used; the browns and greens are nice earth tones to cradle Jordan's near-naked body. The boy belongs there and seems very natural in a very sensual pose. As for Jordan, well, he is quite a handful. Nicely done.
beautiful...such an inviting pose.
What a handsome man! Great photo!
lovely seductive pose and lighting - great light on that green wall behind his head; those white pillows tend to dominate


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Jason Schmidt said tonight that he expects to come off the disabled list once his 15 days are up.
Schmidt also acknowledged he's been dealing with a weak shoulder all season, comparing it to someone trying to hit a tennis ball with loose strings in the racket. ''I figured better now than later, get it taken care of,'' he said. ''I just kind of felt I wasn't doing a whole lot to help this team right now. I wasn't at my best. Instead of fighting through it, let's get it taken care of right now. It's the end of the season that counts.'' That didn't seem to be the opinion of the Giants when Schmidt was throwing 131 pitches in an outing two weeks ago. It's very possible that he won't be right for the remainder of the season.
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Prince Rama's intentions are great: blending Native American tribal drumming, Eastern Indian mantras and cathartic howls, fantastical synth bits and a dose of pixie dust to make a cacophony of a melting pot played by the likes of two sisters, Taraka and Nimai Larson, and one guy, Michael Collins. It's all a little bit Kate Bush meets Bat For Lashes, a little bit Gang Gang Dance, but sadly, the voices constantly seemed off pitch so any attempt at musical grandness became kitsch, at least tonight...Neon Indian headlined Brooklyn Bowl on 10/29 with Prince Rama and Apache Beat, part of a Halloween celebration at the venue that included a costume contest. The show was one of a few for the chillwave-r, who continues his tour in Buffalo (11/4) before calling it quits in Ithaca right after that. Neon Indian will then jet across the Pacific to play a string of shows around New Years leading up to an appearance at Field Day 2011 in Sydney.
The true cosmic dance party only began when Neon Indian took the stage. At this point, Brooklyn Bowl was packed and filled with half Halloween revelers, half frat types looking to pick up gals in itty bitty costumes. The night improved the more we focused on the stage and sound and let Alan Palomo's theremin as well as his pulsating beats, dreamer croon and the band's spacey pop take over. -[Sentimentalist]
The NYC show was at the beginning of a NYC Halloween weekend that also included Mr. Brownstone at the same venue one night later (turn down your volume and check out a bad cell phone video), and a Sunday night Todd P show at Ridgewood Temple which partially overlapped with the big parade.
Prince Rama have no NYC dates until December when the band will team up with Deakin (who opened for Omar Souleyman last night) to play The New Museum on 12/10 (tickets). The Brooklyn band will spend the days leading up to that appearance in Europe. Full (updated) tour dates are below.
More pictures from Brooklyn Bowl and all tour dates are below.
Continue reading "Neon Indian, Prince Rama & Apache Beat celebrated Halloween early @ Brooklyn Bowl (pics) "
Cassie did play Jack! - Todd P/Panache Halloween show pics w/ the Intelligence, Das Racist, Pictureplane, Beets & more
photos by Andrew St. Clair
Cassie & Justin as the White Stripes
"Todd P's Halloween party took place [Sunday] night at the Ridgewood Masonic Temple. most people were probably still recovering from Halloween observed the night before, but a respectable amount of ghouls and tricksters made their way to the show, headlined by so-hot-right-now hip hop ensemble Das Racist.Das Racist headlined the show of mostly locals which included a set by Vivian Girl Cassie Ramone and Justin (both in the Babies) as the White Stripes, but more notable was that The Intelligence, in from Seattle, were on also on the bill (the Intelligence also played Cake Shop one night earlier). Denver's Pictureplane, who was the special guest at the show that took place last night (11/2) at Brooklyn Bowl, was one of the artists who played too. Boshra AlSaadi aka SAADI played with Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang.
Halloween is a time when you can see what people are really about. They're either in a pre-packaged costume or they're trying too hard or they are legitimately clever and good-spirited. And for Das Racist, it can be all of the above all the time. These guys walk the lines between irony and sincerity; between novelty and legitimacy; between gimmickry and credibility. And while some people show up at the party dressed as a can of Four Loko, others as zombies or superheroes, Das Racist can just take the floor as themselves and still be baffling and maybe a little frightening.
This set was, by all definitions, a shit show. You know when your friends have an inside joke and they are cracking up about it, and the joke is sort of independently funny, but not nearly as funny as your friends' uproar would suggest? Combine that feeling with the feeling of seeing your little brother get way too drunk at a party you invited him to. That was what the stage presence of Das Racist was like. And it was a fucking party." [Free Williamsburg]
Blissed Out went on right at 8:00 along with the doors opening which meant not many people around to hear their set, but the 9-band show filled up as the night went on. More pictures below...
Continue reading "Cassie did play Jack! - Todd P/Panache Halloween show pics w/ the Intelligence, Das Racist, Pictureplane, Beets & more "
Voodoo Experience 2010 in pics & video - part 1 (MGMT as Scooby Doo, My Morning Jacket, Jonsi, Muse, Metric & more)
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"It's more than an average sweat-your-brains-out, suffer-in-the-mud music festival. It's the Voodoo Experience, and it went down at City Park this weekend in New Orleans.MGMT probably had the most talked about costumes of the weekend. The band dressed up as the cartoon cast of Scooby Doo. More pictures and a bunch of videos from this past weekend's Halloween-themed New Orleans fest (not necessarily in order - a big mix of all three days), and MMJ's setlist (they covered Black Sabbath again), below...
Voodoo Fest, one of the world's largest Halloween parties, housed thousands of attendees who, for three days of musical bliss, watched some of the world's most notorious names -- including Muse, Ozzy Osbourne, MGMT and My Morning Jacket -- and donned costumes ranging from zombies to superheroes, fictional characters to condiments and anything and everything in-between." [The Daily Reveille]
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photos by Amanda Hatfield
Sweet Shrag shirt!
"Allo Darlin's album on Fortuna Pop came out earlier this year. It was recorded in the basement of the Duke of Uke shop in London, where people like Darren Haymen, and the Wave Pictures like to hang out and a place where Allo Darlin singer and ukulele player Elizabeth Morris probably had her choice of ukuleles to play while recording. Morris started off the set solo with a new song she called Talulah, that contained a line about listening to that Go-Betweens album on cassette. Usually I would assume that a song with an obscure reference to a Go-Betweens album would be lost on the audience, but I think it's safe to assume that everyone in the room got it. The song was about as gentle and tender Allo Darlin would be this night.That Finest Kiss review comes from the October 29th show in Seattle which was one night before (and a country's length from) Allo Darlin's Saturday night, October 30th "Mondoween" Halloween show at The Rock Shop in Brooklyn. It was the UK's band 3rd NYC show this month, as they also played two during CMJ before heading west and touring back this way.
The rest of the band then joined her on stage for what they referred to a slow-burn of a set. A slow burn according to the band is gradually turning up the heat as the night goes on. Their self-titled album on Fortuana Pop is fun and similar to Camera Obscura, but where Camera Obscura are stiff and standoffish on stage Allo Darlin' are the types to put their arms around your shoulders and pogo with you until you're out of breath." [the finest kiss]
Shrag, featured on Elizabeth Morris's t-shirt, was also here for CMJ. More pictures from Mondoween at the Rock Shop, below...
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photos by Amanda Hatfield
hipsters & Die Antwoord in the Village Halloween Parade
"President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama opened up the White House doors to the local children and military families to the North Portico of the White House [on Halloween]. Always willing to open the doors to the White House the first family had some trick or treaters getting their candy game on track.Today, election day, Obama is busy supporting candidates. Go out and vote, even you undead hipsters! (The Rent is Too Damn High!)
Michelle Obama didn't dress up this year, last year she went as a p*ssy cat, this year she kept it simple and rocked an orange sweater with black trousers. The President was on hand taking in all the festivities cheering on the little trick or treaters and hugging it out with Abraham Lincoln." [Peace FM]
Back to Sunday: you already saw ONE, TWO, THREE sets of NYC Halloween Parade pictures. A fourth set continues, ending with a grand finale video, below...
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Florence & the Machine dressed up for Halloween, played Terminal 5, playing the SoHo Apple Store today & SNL
Florence on Halloween in Boston (Dianna Quagenti)
After playing the Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans over the weekend, Florence & the Machine kicked off a proper, but short, tour at House of Blues in Boston on Halloween. As you can see in the above picture, and in the video below, Florence and her band did not wimp out on celebrating the holiday.
Last night (11/1), that tour continued into NYC where Florence and the Machine played their first of two sold out shows at the massive Terminal 5. Both shows (last night and tonight) have The Smith Westerns and Hanni El Khatib opening.
Couldn't score or afford a ticket? You still have one more chance to see the UK band when they play a free show at the SoHo Apple Store this afternoon:
Live from SoHo: Florence + The MachineFlorence's U.S. tour ends November 8th in LA, but maybe she'll stick around for a little bit longer so she doesn't have to fly back and forth for their November 20th appearance on Saturday Night Live. All dates, that Halloween video, a video from Terminal 5, and a Hanni El Khatib video, below...
Florence + The Machine embody creative courage. Pick up a wristband at the Apple Store to guarantee admission to tonight's live performance. November 2, 4:00 p.m.
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photos by Leia Jospe
Dubbed, "Dump.fm - IRHell", this party was a "SUPER SPOOKY TRANS-NATIONAL HALLOWEEN PARTY" that took place on Saturday night, October 30th, at 319 Scholes in Brooklyn while another party took place at U.F.O.ria in Mexico City, and they were "connected through dump.fm." The posted lineups were:
Brooklyn Performances by -- Anamanaguchi - Brenmar - Nullsleep - Physical Therapy - Jon Lynn (Unsolved Mysteries) - Laurel Halo - BLISSED OUT - Magick Mountain - DJ Brother Ladypantz - MIRRORGATE - Flash Porno - ELEVATORMAN Mexico City Performances by -- GATEKEEPER - DoubleDigits - Ñaka Ñaka †‡† - DAMAGELeia was there for 8bit artists Nullsleep and Anamanaguchi who didn't go on until around 5am which could explain why everyone in the pictures looks like they're half asleep, or maybe it's just the special k. The sort-of-awkward set of pictures continues below....
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photos by Benjamin Lozovsky
"The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the largest and most elaborate public Halloween celebration in the entire United States. Over 60,000 outrageously costumed people participated and over 2 million people watched the colorful parade that stretched over a mile in Greenwich Village. This year's parade route, however, was a little shorter than usual as organizers were forced to cut down the route in an effort to save the city money on security.You saw ONE, TWO, and now a third set of NYC Halloween Parade pictures continues (this one being the most NSFW so far) below...
The Parade included circus performances, dancers, dozens of floats, live bands, jugglers, stilt-walkers, performing acts, huge puppets, ghosts, ghouls and even some truly scary costumes like that of "Snooki" and "The Situation" from the Jersey Shore! Eeek!" [CNN]
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photos by Richard Termine
DOWNLOAD: Antony - Thank You For Your Love (MP3)
"This is how it must feel to be an ovum," the singer Antony Hegarty said with a tone of gentle amusement as latecomers flooded down the aisles of Alice Tully Hall during the concert he presented there on Saturday night. It was the second time this singer, who goes by his first name, stopped to let stragglers find their seats. Earlier he had abruptly cut off a song just started -- "Ghost," from his rapturously lovely new album, "Swanlights" -- then tried to smooth over an awkward silence by whistling Satie's "Gymnopédie" No. 1...Reading that first paragraph of the Times review makes me feel a little better, since I was also late to the show, but I was so late I actually missed all of that starting and stopping happening.
...Here, performing as part of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, Antony stood shrouded in shadow and sheathed in a flowing black gown. In place of his Johnsons, the Orchestra of St. Luke's accompanied him in songs largely drawn from "Swanlights" and its predecessor, "The Crying Light." Rob Moose, elsewhere a musically polyamorous violinist, conducted; at the piano was Thomas Bartlett, a sensitive chamber-pop singer otherwise known as Doveman. [NY Times]
I think there were at least two big issues that caused people to be late. One of them was the show's kind-of-unfortunate 7:30pm start time (7:30 sharp on a Saturday night with no opener). The other was that the 1/2/3 trains were all screwed up, and I personally spent the first 30 minutes of the show sitting underground in a train that wasn't going anywhere. At least there were people dressed up for Halloween adorning all the stations and cars. That made the situation feel slightly less tense. That said, by the time I got there, every seat in the house was full, so late or not, everyone eventually got there, and what I saw was unsuprisingly beautiful and worth finally making it there for.
Nico Muhly was responsible for many of the arrangements of the night, and behind Antony and the orchestra was the film "Mr. O's Book of the Dead", a 1973 film by Chiaki Nagano featuring the Butoh master Kazuo Ohno and his troupe. Kazuo is the one on the cover of Antony and the Johnsons' 2009 CD The Crying Light. And as the NY Times sums up nicely, it was "Projected overhead throughout the performance -- even during the awkward breaks -- it was both a potent visualization of gender ambiguity, vulnerability and pain, and a garish distraction from music's transfixing intensity and beauty."
It was Antony's only North American show this year. Hopefully he'll tour some more in support of his new album "Swanlights" which was released on October 12th via Secretly Canadian. Download "Thank You For Your Love" from that LP above, and watch Antony's performance of the same song from the October 8th episode of Letterman in the video, under the rest of the pictures from Lincoln Center, below...
Continue reading "Antony played w/ an orchestra & Doveman & a movie @ Lincoln Center (pics) "
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"What a better way to celebrate Halloween then w/ a black metal show of epic proportions! Woe & Krieg" - Wren Leader
"I know nothing about either band, 'cept that
I just saw Woe & they killed" - AnUncontrollableUrge
Chris Grigg on stage with Woe
Woe frontman/Krieg drummer Chris Grigg did double duty late Saturday night, in the wee hours of Halloween, as Woe supported Krieg at Knitting Factory as part of the BrooklynVegan/Haunting The Chapel production that directly followed the AGE/Hellshock which concluded before 12. Pictures and video from the late show are in this post.
Both Krieg and Woe are touring in support of their new Candlelight LPs, The Isolationist and Quietly, Undramatically respectively. Both are out now and worth a listen.
More pictures and some video from the midnight black mass are below.
Continue reading "Woe & Krieg played Knitting Factory Halloween morning ---- (pics & video) "
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8PM marked the start of two killer back to back shows at Knitting Factory on 10/30, the first of which featured crusty Japanese hardcore band AGE with Hellshock, Atakke, Perdition, and Cervix. The show was one of two that night for AGE/Hellshock, as the pair ended up playing a surprise show later at Acheron with Kakka Hatta 77 and Acid Reflux.
Of the touring parties, Hellshock crammed the most kids into the room, but it was AGE that impressed me the most with their wildman hardcore antics and foul riffs. Hellshock's death metal vocals over thrash-y d-beat were also well executed, as was the always dependable Atakke. Perdition was probably the single most violent set of the night. They inciting frenzied moshing to go along with their vocalists' out-of control stage antics (whipping around the stage, swinging the mic stand and smashing things with its base).
It was an awesome (Mischief) night of crust-y punk extremity that continued as the clock struck midnight and it turned Halloween. That's when Krieg & Woe took over the venue to darken things a bit... More about the late Krieg/Woe show is on the way, but for now dig on the moshpits, the costumes, and the massacre that was AGE & Hellshock, below...
Continue reading "AGE, Hellshock, Attake, Perdition & Cervix played Mischief Night @ Knitting Factory (pics) "
Craig Finn joined Frightened Rabbit @ Terminal 5. Phantom Band & Plants & Animals played too (pics, setlist & video)
photos by Lionel Bergeron
Craig Finn & Frightened Rabbit
Just hours before Saturday night's Frightened Rabbit show, I wrote "The Craig Finn duet audio is still not available." That is no longer true, though the audio now available is the live audio from the part of the Terminal 5 show where The Hold Steady's Craig Finn came on stage and sang "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" live on stage with the headlining band during their encore (video below). The excitement continued after that when Frightened Rabbit invited up costumed crowd members, of which there were many in attendance since the show's date was October 30th.
Plants & Animals and a very stylish looking Phantom Band (who recently played our Friday CMJ day party) opened the show. More pictures with Frightened Rabbits' setlist and the videos, below....
Continue reading "Craig Finn joined Frightened Rabbit @ Terminal 5. Phantom Band & Plants & Animals played too (pics, setlist & video) "
photos by Jessica Amaya, photos by Greg Cristman
F U (photo by Jessica Amaya)
Halloween revelers ignored the cold weather, a shorter route and a scaled down production to celebrate the holiday in their best costumes for the 38th Annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade Sunday.Our first batch of Halloween parade pictures are HERE. The second batch continues below...
Thousands of New Yorkers turned out to watch or march in the parade wearing costumes ranging from news-based themes like rescued Chilean miner outfits to classic monsters like vampires, zombies and mummies.
"I rise from the sea to celebrate All Hallows Eve," said George Roman, 31, who dressed for the occasion as a pirate zombie.
Roman staked out his viewing spot on the corner of Sixth Avenue and West Fourth Street three hours before the start of the parade. "Halloween is my Christmas," said Roman, who has attended the parade every year since he can remember.
Temperatures Sunday night dipped into the low 40s, making things tough on some of the skimpier costumes. "It's a little chilly," said Colin Hanns, 17, an FIT freshman who made his sailor costume out of vintage fabric. "But it's so worth it." [DNAInfo]
a scene from Sunday's parade (more by Chris La Putt)
today in NYC
* Zion I @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Swingadelic @ Maxwell's
* R. Crumb @ Barnes & Noble
* Jim Campilongo @ Living Room
* David Sedaris @ the Apollo Theater
* Neil Diamond on the Today Show
* Superhuman Happiness @ Coco 66
* Elvis Costello @ The Greene Space
* Recoil, Architect, Conjure One @ Highline Ballroom
* Jonathan Richman, Tommy Larkins @ Bowery Ballroom
* Annie and The Beekeepers, Twain, Birdie Busch @ Union Hall
* The Meligrove Band, Thrift Store Cowboys, Alexis Foxe @ Pianos
* Vagina Panther with Cassette Kids, At Sea, & Phone Home @ S.O.B.'s
* Talib Kweli, Junot Díaz, Lisa Dierbeck, Wahida Clark and Wally Lamb @ LPR
* Florence & The Machine, The Smith Westerns, Hanni El Khatib @ Terminal 5
* A Reading of Joe Mande's Screenplay Adaptation of Glenn Beck's Novel: The Overton Window w/ guests (instead of Whiplash) @ UCB
Glenn Beck's new best-selling political thriller, The Overton Window, was so inspiring to comedian Joe Mande that he sat down and re-wrote the story for the big screen. Come watch as Mande and a few of his friends read the script on stage for the first time, in hopes of getting a movie deal.Dum Dum Girls were supposed to play Music Hall of Williamsburg tonight.
John Mulaney
Dave Hill
Julie Klausner
Matt McCarthy
Max Silvestri
Gabe Liedman
And a few very impressive SURPRISE GUESTS!
Stay in the Halloween spirit with Recoil tonight at Highline Ballroom. Nicole Blackman is "guest vocalist" on the goth-friendly show featuring Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode. Tickets still seem to be available.
Check out a set of pictures from Sunday's Halloween Parade.
Florence and the Machines play their first of two shows with the Smith Westerns at Terminal 5 tonight.
Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkins also play their first of two shows tonight.
Chromeo were Kiss for Halloween. Video from their Chicago show below...
Local Natives encored with "Sun Hands" in Halloween costumes at Webster Hall this weekend. Video below...
What else?
Continue reading "What's going on Monday? (Day of the Dead)"
photos by Chris La Putt
Many more pictures from the 38th Annual Village Halloween Parade HERE and HERE, and below...
today in NYC
* the Halloween parade
* Justin Bond @ Joe's Pub
* tribute bands @ Union Pool
* Sun Ra Arkestra @ Sullivan Hall
* The Dresden Dolls @ Irving Plaza
* The Black Crowes @ Best Buy Theater
* The Old Ceremony, Mascott @ The Rock Shop
* Rocky Horror Picture Show Anniversary Party @ Le Poisson Rouge
* World/Inferno Friendship Society (Hallowmas 2010) @ Brooklyn Bowl
* The Felice Brothers, Adam Haworth Stephens @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Robbers On High Street (as ELO), Black Dragon, Blue Album Group @ Mercury Lounge
* Delicate Steve, Golden Ages, Crinkles, Lawrence Welks and Our Bear To Cross @ Cake Shop
* Das Racist, Keepaway, Pictureplane, The Intelligence, The Beets, Cassie Ramone & Justin from The Babies as The White Stripes, Janka Nabay, Blissed Out @ Ridgewood Temple (Todd P's Halloween Party)
This year is the 38th Annual Village Halloween Parade.
This year's theme: "Memento Mori"
Twenty years ago the iconic Day of the Dead puppets first appeared in the Village Halloween Parade, our festival of All Souls to ritual traditions worldwide -the Guede in Port-au-Prince, the Skull and Bones Gang of New Orleans, in the calaveras of Oaxaca, the Midnight Robbers of Trinidad, and beyond. Often it is in the places where tragedy is more ubiquitous and everyday existence can be more of a struggle, that expressions of the Dead are the most exuberant, a reminder that life itself, despite itshardships, is a gift. The Dead - as they return to drink coffee, play checkers, watch TV,but above all, to dance - offer us a mirror to see with fresh eyes the everyday things in our lives, rendered invisible by routine. Every sound, action, and motion we take for granted, they rejoice in - on the one night they can. So each year, when the skeletons take their place at the head of the Halloween Parade, they are not grim expressions of the morbid but rather joyful reminders of all that is vital.Also check out the previous post (and its comments): "What's happening on Halloween weekend in NYC this year?"
As the beloved dancing skeletons enter their third decade in the Village Halloween Parade, we seek to honor them - and in doing so, to honor all those who have walked in their footsteps. Official Parade puppeteers Superior Concept Monsters, Master Puppeteer Basil Twist and Haitian Artist Didier Civil plan to work with the Mexican, Haitian and arts communities to make and remake, create and re-create, re-envision and resurrect the entire Day of the Dead section, calling forth not only the spirits of the Dead, but many of the puppets of past VHP artists that had long been absent from the streets of Greenwich Village. Drawing on traditional forms from Trinidad to Tibet, Haiti to Mexico, new 12'-foot tall skeletal puppets will add new life to the VHP's jubilant underworld - a cortege drawn by galloping night-Mares, an illuminated Ghost Train, and a dozen brand-new dancing Calaveras skeletons and who knows what else to join their brethren at the head of the Parade.
As the perennial community of Halloween volunteers gathers again this year to build and rehearse our memento mori ("Remembrance of Death") we'll look back on 37 years of Halloween in NY with another Latin adage: "Vita Brevis Ars Longa" : life is short, but art endures.
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black was supposed to play Santos Party House, but the venue is closed.
Did you catch Legendary Pink Dots at Le Poisson Rouge the other night? Since their tour was announced, they were also added as opener for tonight's Dresden Dolls show at Irving Plaza.
That Dresden Dolls show also promises "special guests, rare performances, and a cacophony of Brechtian entertainment." AND: "This triumphant return will be documented by the Dresden Dolls fan base in a project spearheaded by This One Is On Us. Fans from all over the world will record, edit, design, and promote to produce a DVD of the evening for all the world to cherish and enjoy. This project aims to blur the link between author and reader even further - until both are one and the same."
Tonight's show at Union Pool show:
HALLOWEENCheck out Violens' new Halloween-friendly video for "Violent Sensation Descends" below...
DAMN! a Halloween tribute to WHAM!
(Max and Kev from Pizza Party on EVR)
THE CURE(Warm Ghost)
VIOLENT FEMMES(McDonald's)
ELO(Members of The Mad Scene and The Flaming Fire)
DANZIG/MISFITS(Members of Love as Laughter, Children, and Violent Bullshit
Check out Howlies' new Halloween-friendly video for "Zombie Girl" below...
What else?
PRE HALLOWEEN COVER SHOWThe Death By Audio show is real bands pretending to be other bands for Halloween. The Sublime tribute band playing Mercury Lounge tonight is a Sublime tribute band all year long. Same is true about the Smiths and Radiohead cover bands playing Littlefield this evening.
KISS ::: Boogie Boarder
THIN LIZZY ::: Passive Aggressor
NIRVANA ::: Reality War (Michael Jordan)
GREEN DAY'S DOOKIE ::: Freudian Slit
BLACK FLAG ::: Necking/Zulus
BABES IN TOYLAND ::: mems of Pygmy Shrews
Mr. Brownstone, a Guns n Roses cover band that comes in and out of retirement, is at Brooklyn Bowl on Saturday.
Cassie & Justin from the Babies will be the White Stripes on Sunday - the same (Halloween) day that Robbers on High Street will be ELO at Mercury Lounge where a Weezer cover band will open. Mouth Breather, a Jesus Lizard cover band, plays Fontana's. And at Union Pool:
DAMN! a Halloween tribute to WHAM! (Max & Kev of Pizza Party on EVR)More Halloween shows listed HERE.
THE CURE (Warm Ghost)
VIOLENT FEMMES (McDonald's)
ELO (Members of The Mad Scene and The Flaming Fire)
DANZIG/MISFITS (Members of Love as Laughter, Children, and Violent Bullshit)
Past Halloween, another tribute band is coming out of retirement, a very short retirement. Tragedy played their final show in January. The All Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees plays their next show November 12th at Brooklyn Bowl (billed as their "last show ever").
The Fab Faux are performing The White Album in its entirety at Terminal 5 on December 11. Tickets go on sale at noon.
Zoso is playing 'The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience' at Music Hall of Williamsburg on January 29th. Tickets go on sale at noon.
And tribute bands are always playing BB King's.
photos by Kurt Christensen
Speaking of bloody, BrooklynVegan photographer Kurt Christensen happened to be walking through Times Square on Tuesday when he was suddenly surrounded by zombies. Naturally he pulled out his camera. His shots are in this post.
The occasion?
AMC and FOX international networks are planning to stage a worldwide stunt that will begin at daybreak in Taipei and Hong Kong on Tuesday, October 26th. Taking direction from "The Walking Dead's" legendary make-up artist Greg Nicotero, hundreds of zombies will consecutively take over major cities worldwide during a 24-hour period. The planned global outbreaks will center in and around the world's major landmarks, including the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., Big Ben in London, the Prado Museum in Madrid, the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, the Acropolis in Athens and more.It was all just a publicity stunt to promote AMC's The Walking Dead - not quite as legendary as the recent Zombiecon event, but we like zombies and it's almost our favorite holiday Halloween, so what the heck. Pictures continue below...
Continue reading "Zombies were spotted in Times Square (pics) "
photos by Amanda Hatfield, words by Bill Pearis
DOWNLOAD: Allo Darlin' - Dreaming (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Allo Darlin' - My Heart is a Drummer (MP3)
The Woods
Allo Darlin only played two shows during CMJ (their guitarist had to fly back to England for a wedding on Friday) and suffered dual indignaties last Thursday: the atrocious sound at The Woods for their day show and then having to play Kenny's Castaways. I thought Elizabeth Morris was going to kill the sound guy at the Woods, but they persevered despite the omnipresent feedback.
They're back this Saturday, playing The Rock Shop as part of the Mondo! Halloween Party. They go on at 11pm - it's dj's the rest of the night (costumes encouraged). I know Saturday is main party night for Halloween stuff, but make room for this if you can. The band just released a new video for single "My Heart is a Drummer" which you can watch at the bottom of this post. Their debut album just got its North American release a couple weeks ago and you should definitely pick it up. And definitely definitely go see them. Hopefully they'll be back sooner than later.
Another set of pictures from the Woods show, continues below...
Continue reading "Allo Darlin' were here, coming back soon (more pics from the Woods, Mondo Halloween party reminder) "
Due to an injury in the band, Devo has cancelled their appearance this Saturday night at the Metro PCS Masquerade and their entire tour. The concert will go on! MetroPCS & 101.9 RXP will present a free show with Neon Trees, The Drums and other special guests this Saturday night at The Hammerstein Ballroom! Refunds are available at the point of purchase. Ticket holders will be honored at the door Saturday night. Or to get your free passes click here to get on the Metro PCS Guest list for admission. Full refunds will be available at Point of PurchaseAccording to another press release, it is a "due to a serious hand injury sustained by guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh. A glass shard sliced Mothersbaugh's right thumb to the bone, severing a tendon. He underwent immediate emergency surgery and is expected to make a full recovery after proper care and therapy". Devo were also scheduled to play Moogfest and Fun Fun Fun Fest.... and both Crocodiles and Dum Dum Girls both also just cancelled their appearances at Fun Fun Fun Fest! Luckily Cornershop wasn't scheduled to play the Austin Festival too.
Other Mischief Night/Halloween options HERE.
Halloween (more by Paul Birman)
What are some good Halloween shows happening this year? There's always the parade. And Todd P has his thing. Knitting Factory has all the metal you need. Hippies will be down the shore gambling. The Dresden Dolls are at Irving Plaza. World/Inferno Friendship Society do two shows at Brooklyn Bowl. The Felice Brothers and Adam H. Stephens of Two Gallants play MHOW (not a very Halloween-like option). Robbers on High Street will be ELO at Mercury Lounge. A Weezer cover band opens for them.
Deidre of Savoir Adore and French Horn Rebellion hosts Deidre's Hoochie Coochie Halloween at Zebulon. Michael T hosts a Rocky Horror Picture Show anniversary party at Le Poisson Rouge. The always-costumed Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black play Santos. What else?
There's always Saturday/Mischief night to celebrate. Since Halloween is on a Sunday this year, Halloween will probably last all weekend long (plus, Halloween technically begins at midnight). Guns n Roses cover band Mr. Brownstone are at Brooklyn Bowl this Saturday evening before Das Pop play the Halloween party there later that night. Allo Darlin play the Mondo Halloween Party at The Rock Shop in Brooklyn on 10/30. The previously mentioned Pelly Twins Pre-Halloween Partay is happening that night too:
Saturday October 30th @ 171 LOMBARDYAntony and Cloud Cult both also play that night, as do
:: http://pellytwins.blogspot.com
:::::: Yellow Fever
:::::::: Total Slacker
:::::::::: Sweet Bulbs
502 Varick Ave @ Lombardy St | East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L-Grand St, G-Nassau | 8pm | all ages | $tba
What else?
Get in the mood with some videos below...
Continue reading "What's happening on Halloween weekend in NYC this year?"
DOWNLOAD: The Intelligence - Thank You God for Fixing the Tape Machine (MP3)
Sunday October 31st @ RIDGEWOOD MASONIC TEMPLEI suppose it's possible that she is actually playing Jack.
:::::: the Intelligence
:::::::: the Beets
:::::::::: Cassie & Justin from the Babies --- as WHITE STRIPES
:::::::::::: Janka Nabay
:::::::::::::: Blissed Out
:::::::::::::::: more to come!!!!
1054 Bushwick Ave @ Gates Ave | Bushwick, Brooklyn
J,Z-Gates Ave, L,M-Myrtle/Wyckoff | 8pm | all ages | $13 in costume - $15 w/out
As mentioned all the way back in September, The Intelligence are currently on tour and will also play a NYC show at Cake Shop one day before Halloween with German Measles and The Beets.
By the way, Das Racist also play Southpaw, with Homeboy Sandman, on November 5th.
Updated Intelligence dates below...
Continue reading "The Intelligence coming, Cassie Ramone playing Meg White (at Panache & Todd P's Halloween Partay)"
the Flaming Lips played ACL (pics, setlist), made a poster w/ Wayne's blood (video), announce Skeleton Parade, other dates
photos by Tim Griffin
"Watching Deer Tick at One Eyed Jacks in
the French quarter..." - Wayne Coyne, one day after ACL
"Burbank, CA - What would Halloween be without THE FLAMING LIPS? Certainly nothing as magical and incendiary as their annual Ghouls Gone Wild event held in their hometown of Oklahoma City, that's what. As we fall into the crisp Autumnal night air of the season's darkest yet sweetest holiday, THE FLAMING LIPS ask the question: Want to Participate in This Year's MARCH OF 1000 FLAMING SKELETONS?The Flaming Lips played a nine-song set opposite Band of Horses at Austin City Limits on Sunday (10/10). Coming up, the band will play a week of shows in Florida before their pre-Halloween parade (see above), and then another week of shows in Asia after Halloween, and eventually, in July 2011, a very special performance in the UK. All dates with more ACL pictures, the setlist, and a video of Wayne screenprinting an ACL poster with his own blood, below...
This October 23rd, The LIPS will once again host their annual MARCH OF 1000 FLAMING SKELETONS Parade in downtown Oklahoma City's Bricktown district, just a stones throw away from FLAMING LIPS ALLEY.
Last year's third annual Ghouls Gone Wild event was a huge success that drew LIPS fans from around the globe. Naturally, this year's Supernatural procession will be even more elaborate as festive floats, (in)appropriately adorned cars, walking groups and plenty of surprises along with 1000 strong undead snaking through the streets of Oklahoma City.
Order your costume bundle for this year's parade now in the official Flaming Lips store: www.flaminglips.com/store
Continue reading "the Flaming Lips played ACL (pics, setlist), made a poster w/ Wayne's blood (video), announce Skeleton Parade, other dates"
by BBG
Chris Grigg at The Studio at Webster Hall with Woe (more by Samantha Marble)
This year, as the clock swings from devil's night to Halloween, BrooklynVegan and Haunting The Chapel will present a night of black metal with the return of Krieg and the fantastic Woe at Knitting Factory! The show takes place at 11:59PM on Saturday, October 30th directly after the previously discussed AGE/Hellshock show happening in the same venue that evening, and will be $5 to get in, or just $2 if you paid to see the show earlier that night. Tickets are on sale.
Both Krieg and Woe feature Chris Grigg (on drums and guitar/vox respectively) and both have new LPs on the way in October via Candlelight Records. The new Woe, Quietly, Undramatically, hits record stores on 10/12 while the new Krieg, The Isolationist, impacts 14 days later.
Neil Imperial of Krieg also logged hours on he latest Twilight (the band) record, and two of his Twilight band mates (Blake of Nachtmystium and Steve of The Atlas Moth) played The Studio at Webster Hall on 9/15.
In related BV-presented show news, a reminder that the Batillus and Kowloon Walled City tour kicks off tomorrow (9/18) at Cake Shop with Riff Cannon. The early show will have doors at 5PM and cost you $10.
Halloween show flyer (created by the uber-talented Sophie Penrose), and some videos below.
Continue reading "Krieg & Woe releasing albums, ringing in Halloween in NYC"
After what seems like a long period of Amanda Palmer establishing herself as a solo artist, Amanda and Brian are getting back together again. Dresden Dolls tour dates and more info below...


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3:45 EST: President Obama delivers remarks at Hyde Park Academy, Chicago
Dawn Hochsprung
CT Post: The six Newtown teachers and administrators who died protecting their students at Sandy Hook Elementary School will be the posthumous recipients of the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal.
President Obama will make the presentations to surviving family members during a ceremony on Friday, Feb. 15 in the White House….
More here
The medals will go to the families of:
Dawn Hochsprung, the principal, Mary Sherlach, the school psychologist and teachers Rachel D'Avino, Lauren Rousseau, Anne Murphy and Victoria Soto.
Thank you Dudette!
More photos at The Denver Post
C-Span * MSNBC
MSNBC's Presidential Debate Live Blog, with Joy-Ann Reid and Richard Wolffe
The Guardian's live blog
White House live
CNN live streaming
CBS live streaming
Human warmth ….. watch and learn, Romney
TPM: A lesser-known but important provision in "Obamacare" that regulates how health insurance companies spend their money is yielding benefits for consumers, a new study finds.
By this August, insurers are projected to send consumers a total of $1.3 billion in rebates, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis released Thursday – $541 million to large employers, $377 million to small businesses and $426 million to people with their own insurance plans.
The rebates are the result of a rule in the Affordable Care Act that requires insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent or 85 percent of premium earnings on health care – as opposed to marketing and administrative activities – or otherwise provide rebates to their consumers.
Steve Benen: Joe Weisenthal published a pretty remarkable chart today noting economic growth in the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe over the last nine years….
…. Once President Obama took office and the Recovery Act/stimulus began putting capital back into the economy, the U.S. economy began growing again. In the U.K., the economy started to improve, right up until British officials began implementing an austerity agenda – at which point the national economy stagnated and slipped back into a recession.
Obama rejected austerity, and as a result, American growth, while fragile and insufficient, is easily outpacing Europe's and UK's, where austerity measures have ruled the day.
….When David Cameron's austerity policies began, Republicans were not only certain they would work, they pleaded with American policymakers to follow the Tories' lead …. The remarkable thing is, Republicans aren't the least bit chastened by the track record of failure.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will visit Fort Stewart Friday …. The event will not be open to the general public according to the White House.
No other details were available except that the president and first lady will "meet with troops, veterans and military families".
President Obama has announced 13 new recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom:
Madeleine Albright, John Doar, Bob Dylan, William Foege, John Glenn, Gordon Hirabayashi, Dolores Huerta, Jan Karski, Juliette Gordon Low, Toni Morrison, Shimon Peres, John Paul Stevens, Pat Summitt.
ThinkProgress: …. The Romney campaign organized a conference call today with three of Romney's foreign policy advisers to push back (against VP Biden's foreign policy speech). During the call, Romney adviser Ambassador Pierre Prosper attacked President Obama for dealing with Russia, albeit using geographical terms from the Cold War era:
PROSPER: ….. The United States abandoned its missile defense sites in Poland and Czechoslovakia….
Aside from the fact that "Czechoslovakia" broke up into the Czech Republic and Slovakia nearly 20 years ago, the Obama administration never "abandoned" missile defense sites because they were never there to begin with….
Michael Tomasky: It seems clear that the main issue Mitt Romney is going to use to try to reestablish himself as a moderate is immigration …. Can Romney, who staked out an immigration position during the primaries that left him sounding like Pat Buchanan, really pull this off? My bet: He'll be smooth, he'll do almost everything right, he'll say all the right things — and he'll end up with something very much like the 31 percent of the Latino vote John McCain got, maybe two or three points more, tops. The reason is simple: Romney, like his party, is just too white.
…. There is no signal, at least yet, that Rubio would make a whit of difference. Last weekend, a poll came out in which 1,000-plus Latinos were asked about Obama-Biden matchups against Romney-Rubio, and Romney paired with various other Hispanic Republicans ….. in Florida, Obama did better among Latinos against Romney with Rubio on the ticket, suggesting that maybe to know him isn't to love him.
NYT: The group Americans for Prosperity just went up with a $6.1 million ad buy in swing states that accuses the Obama administration of squandering American taxpayer dollars on green energy projects, asserting that some of the money actually went to foreign entities….
In making the general assertion that "billions of taxpayer dollars spent on green energy went to jobs in foreign countries," the ad cites as evidence $1.2 billion that went "to a solar company that's building a plant in Mexico." In fact, the company involved in the plant, SunPower, said that the $1.2 billion federal loan guarantee was for its solar ranch in California….
The ad also says that the Obama administration sent "half a billion to an electric car company that created hundreds of jobs in Finland." …. Loans under the agency's alternative vehicle program went to Fisker Automotive, an American electric car company based in California that has facilities in Finland, as well as China and Germany. The agency provided $169 million for engineering and tooling work, all carried out in the United States….
Six weeks later, I still can't see this video enough:
Background to the video here
Thanks Dotster
My forecast:
Bye bye Rick….
The Guardian: "I think all of us felt very bad for him," says Michele Bachmann to Greta Van Susteren. Sympathy from Michele Bachmann? That's got to hurt.
The Guardian: Cain just referred to Nancy Pelosi, the then Speaker of the House, as "Princess Nancy". He really does have a problem with women, doesn't he?
The Guardian: Now that Newt Gingrich has moved from single digit poll figures around 14% and a third-place slot, maybe he will come under more media scrutiny.
Interesting when he was asked about his role with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose reckless lending was the catalyst for the slump. Although Gingrich is a critic of government involvement and a champion of cutting regulation……
….. he worked as a consultant for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taking $300,000 in fees.
Many or all of the consultants were employed to block government regulation. How's Gingrich square this? He claimed tonight he had advised them to stop handing mortgages to people with poor credit ratings and they had ignored his advice. Anyone around in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at the time that can corroborate this version?
President Obama at the National Women's Law Center's Annual Awards dinner in Washington, Nov. 9
President Barack Obama greets the 2011 Presidential Citizens Medal recipients in the Blue Room of the White House prior to a medal ceremony in the East Room, Oct. 20. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
9:30 AM President Obama signs the Korea, Panama, Colombia Free Trade Agreements and the renewal of Trade Adjustment Assistance for workers
10:30 The President attends a reception in the Rose Garden
2:30 The President honors recipients of the 2010 National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Andrew Sullivan: To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.
Ian Swanson (The Hill): Obama stands tall after the demise of Libyan strongman Gadhafi
The death of Moammar Gadhafi represents another major foreign policy victory for President Obama, who backed a months-long air campaign in Libya while facing criticism from the left and the right.
Obama stared down congressional skeptics across the political spectrum … Through it all, Obama kept his resolve.
…. On Thursday he basked in the second greatest foreign policy triumph of his administration, after the successful operation this spring that killed Osama bin Laden. Gadhafi's death comes less than a month after the U.S. drone strike killed al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen.
…. For the unwavering Obama, Thursday came the big payoff as Gadhafi's hopes for returning to power ended in a field outside his hometown of Sirte.
…. Obama entered the Oval Office as a novice on the international stage, criticized for a naïve outlook on the world.
…. three years into his term, both the bin Laden and Libya events suggest Obama can be steely in making decisions about U.S. force, and in sticking with them.
Full article here
Jake Tapper: Have you had any difficulty discerning Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney's precise position on the US involvement in the NATO mission in Libya?
The one consistency has been criticism of President Obama. But beyond that, he's seemed a bit all over the Libyan map.
To wit:
Position 1: Obama was weak in not doing this sooner
Position 2: (Nothing to say)
Position 3: Obama is being too aggressive
Position 4: After Gadhafi fell: Hooray! Now release the Lockerbie bomber
Position 5 – (Somewhat similar to position 1): It's about time! The world is a better place without him!
See full post here
Washington Post: Marco Rubio's compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show
During his rise to political prominence, Sen. Marco Rubio frequently repeated a compelling version of his family's history that had special resonance in South Florida. He was the "son of exiles," he told audiences, Cuban Americans forced off their beloved island after "a thug," Fidel Castro, took power.
But a review of documents – including naturalization papers and other official records – reveals that the Florida Republican's account embellishes the facts. The documents show that Rubio's parents came to the United States and were admitted for permanent residence more than 2 and a half years before Castro's forces overthrew the Cuban government and took power on New Year's Day 1959.
The supposed flight of Rubio's parents has been at the core of the young senator's political identity …. he mentions his parents in the second sentence of the official biography on his Senate Web site. It says that Mario and Oriales Rubio "came to America following Fidel Castro's takeover."….
The real story of his parents' migration appears to be a more conventional immigrant narrative, a couple who came to the United States seeking a better life. In the year they arrived in Florida, the future Marxist dictator was in Mexico plotting a quixotic return to Cuba.
Michael Tomasky (Daily Beast): The economy needs help. The Democrats' proposals are popular. And yet they're dying in Congress. Why? Because the GOP hates Obama more than it loves America.
Maybe as early as Thursday night, the Senate will take its first vote on one bite-size piece of President Obama's jobs bill, a $35 billion measure to fund the hiring of 400,000 teachers and a smaller number of cops and firefighters. It will fail. As usual not a single Republican will vote for it….
…. The Republican Party's posture to the American people is this. Your opinion on issues like teachers and taxes doesn't matter a whit to us … if you keep that man in the White House, we will block everything he and you want. Everything. And nothing will happen in this town for those next four years. The Republicans can't say any of this, of course, but they don't have to. People get it. It just sort of seeps out of them, like oil from a polluted stream.
I have trouble keeping lunch down when I read these jeremiads about how sad and mysterious it is that our institutions of government are failing. It's not a mystery. One side wants them to fail. And there's very little the other side can do about it, besides point it out, which the president has started doing – and now he's the one being divisive! They've turned the world inside out.
The video is glitchy, will get a better version tomorrow – but stick with it, Rachel was on fire
Nearly there, thank you so much everyone:
LA Times: Republican-led opposition in the Senate blocked a key element of President Obama's jobs plan – a proposal to send $35 billion to cash-strapped states to keep public school teachers, police and firefighters on the job.
The Senate voted 50-50 late Thursday, falling short of the 60 votes needed to advance. Polls have shown the proposal is among the most popular flanks of Obama's jobs initiative.
President Obama shakes hands with Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) after he signed the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, October 8, 2010
The Hill: Democrats Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Mark Pryor (Ark.), who voted last week to block Obama's full jobs measure, again sided with Republicans.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, also said no, citing concerns about the legislation's cost effectiveness.
Contact Mark Pryor here
Ben Nelson: Twitter – Email
Joe Lieberman – Twitter – Email
From two days ago:
Joan, in case you drop in, thinking of you, hope all's well and you're recovering from your surgery. Take care of yourself, see you soon.
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