2010 IS HERE SO FAST

SPIKE LEE REPRESENTING FOR MICHAEL JACKSON

WELCOME TO FIST PUNCH NATION!

MTV struck gold with their latest venture into the Jersey Shore. No more Making The Bands and other reality talent shows. This is going back to the basics with alcohol, fights and insanity. What more can you ask for from your stupid box?

E.N. PRESENTS "WE GOT NEXT TOUR NYC" JANUARY 23rd

SANTOS PARTY HOUSE:
96 Lafayette Street. (NY, NY)
Between Walker & White Street
6-11pm
$10 Cover
Giveaways + Live Music + DJs

HAPPY HOLIDAY SALE PLUS FREE SHIPPING

KOBE VS LEBRON ( XMAS SHOWDOWN )

THE RETURN OF THE SPACE JAMS

SPACE JAM JORDANS 11
So far two different Foot-Lockers in Atlanta were robbed for these kicks. I am sure there is more drama to come. These are not my favorite Jordan's thus far. The quality of the material was cheapened a little. After a couple of wear's look for the cracks in the patent leather and sole. Design is great and the box/packaging is very innovative. Proceed with caution when purchasing.

PARTY IN DUBAI

THIS WEEK SOUNDTRACK

CLASSIC SIMPSONS FOR THE SEASON

RI RI HITS THE COVER OF GQ

DREAMING OF WARM WEATHER

EN GOES TO BRASIL

HISTORY OF BRASIL:

When arriving in April 1500 in the coast of what would later be known as Brazil, the Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral found the primitive people who inhabited it.^[25][26] They were divided in several distinct tribes, that fought among themselves^[27] and that shared the same Tupi-Guarani linguistic family.^[25] The "men were hunters, fishers and food collectors and the women were encharged of the reduced agricultural activity that was practiced."^[25] Some of the tribes were nomads and other sedentary; they knew the fire but not metal casting and a few were cannibals.^[25] The settling was effectively initiated in 1534, when King Dom João III divided the Brazilian territory in twelve hereditary captaincies that would be governed by members of the lesser nobility or proceeding from educated families.^[28][29] The experience revealed itself to be an utter disaster, and in 1549 the king assigned a governor-general to administrate the entire colony.^[29][30]

Around 1530, the Tupiniquim (the same tribe that Cabral met)^[31] and their bitter enemies the Tupinambá, the largest and most important tribes in Brazil, allied themselves with the Portuguese and the French, respectively.^[27] Between the Portuguese and the Tupiniquim "occurred a certain intermittently pacific inter-racial assimilation."^[32] While the Tupinambás, however, were mostly exterminated in long wars and mainly by European diseases to which they had no immunities.^[33][34] The ones that survived were enslaved by other tribes or by the Portuguese or fled toward the countryside.^[33][35] By the middle of the 16th century, sugar had become the most important item of the Brazilian exportations.^[27][36] Thus, the Portuguese turned to other forms of man power to handle with the increasing international demand.^[33][37] Enslaved Africans were imported and became the "basic pillar of the economy" in the most populous areas of the colony.

GIFT GIVING HAS NEVER BEEN THIS EASY!

EN in Toronto

the CN Tower

the Sharp Center building

at Ontario College of Art & Design

"Imperial Bar"!!

"Imperial Opera Theater"

Skating Rink at Nathan Phillips Park

across from Toronto City Hall

Royal Ontario Museum

Toronto Subway at the Museum stop

a great coffee shop in Distillery District

Old car next to the coffee shop

Mural Art in Toronto, telling History

Cool architecture in Distillery area

Night time in Toronto

near St.Lawrence Market

EBONY MAGAZINE (NOV 2009) WRITE UP!

Harlem Renaissance Graphic Tee

Design: Cotton Club Tee

• Image showcasing the Cotton Club in the roaring 1920's, printed with a soft touch ink
• Cotton Club lettering is printed in a gloss ink making the letters pop off the tee shirt
• Ultra soft 100% cotton jersey
• Machine washable
• Signature epaulet. Lower right corner

• Color: Marine Navy
  

History Fact: The predecessor of the Cotton Club was Club DeLux, which was owned by heavyweight champion Jack Johnson. Johnson sold his club to gangster Owney Madden. Madden changed the name to Cotton Club to make the club appear as a stylish plantation. All of the performers were black and the guests were white only. In its prime, the Cotton Club was the king of New York City nightlife. Only the wealthy elite, celebrities and notorious could get in.

JAMAICA 09 {Montega Bay}

GOOD MUSIC OF THE WEEK

Amazing artworks by artist KRIS KUKSI

artist KRIS KUKSI

click on image to enlarge to view detail

Born March 2, 1973, in Springfield Missouri and growing up in neighboring Kansas, Kris spent his youth in rural seclusion and isolation along with a blue-collar, working mother, two much-older brothers and an absent father. Open country, sparse trees, and alcoholic stepfather, perhaps paved the way for an individual saturated in imagination and introversion. His fascination with the unusual lent to his macabre art later in life. The grotesque to him, as it seemed, was beautiful. Reaching adulthood his art blossomed and created a breakthrough of personal freedom from the negative environment experienced during his youth. He soon discovered his distaste for the typical American life and pop culture, feeling that he has always belonged to the ‘Old World’. Yet, Kris’ work is about a new wilderness, refined and elevated, visualized as a cultivation emerging from the corrupt and demoralized fall of modern-day society. A place were new beginnings, new wars, new philosophies, and new endings exist.

view Kris Kuksi's next exhibition 'Beast Anthology'

Opening receptions on Saturday November 21st from 6-9pm.

at Joshua Liner Gallery

548 W 28th St. | 3rd Floor | New York | NY | 10001