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“Epic.” Enough said. Enjoy.

A couple weeks ago I went to the Afro Punk show at the Black Cat, featuring Saul Williams and Living Colour. I wasn’t familiar with Williams’ music (amazing) and didn’t think I was particularly excited to see Living Colour despite having been a big fan during their heyday in the ’90s.
When Living Colour came onstage–eventually [...]

I love this song and strange, sweaty video.

Here is a video I put together about my summer trip to Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain).

This DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities video features two D.C. legends — E. Ethelbert Miller and Sam Gilliam–in conversation about the power and cultural importance of art.

South African photographer Michael Wyeth sent me a link to this article about the recent reunion of anti-apartheid band Bright Blue.
“In the last years of apartheid, an unlikely group of young middle class white men sang a protest song. It became the anthem of a generation of young whites conscripted into the South African Army and ordered [...]

Check out this video of Fugazi performing “Waiting Room” and “Repeater” in Dupont Circle (1989).

Check out this clip of the athletic, sexy, and smooth men of Philly’s Rennie Harris Pure Movement dance troupe. You could get hurt trying these moves. So don’t!

I got turned on to San Francisco artist Chor Boogie’s work when I read about the recent mural project in DC’s Edgewood neighborhood in Northeast. The artist and graffiti writer pledges his allegiance to “color therapy,” a term he uses to describe his vibrant writing style.
His work is breathtaking, original, clean, bright, fantastical, stunning, immediate and complex. In this video Chor Boogie describes his evolution [...]

I grew up in Northern Virginia in a land far, far away from bombed subway cars. DC’s Metro trains are impervious to taggers’ weapons; they can’t leave the slightest mark. Despite never having seen a painted car slowly rambling through the gritty urban landscape, I bought Martha Cooper Henry Chalfant’s photobook Subway Art more than a decade [...]

Don’t miss this free show at the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center on Thursday 9/10 and Friday 9/11 @ 6 pm. “The Mountain” features choreography by Jason Garcia Ignacio, performed by City Dance Ensemble. Ignacio’s work “focuses on Filipino culture, environmental preservation, and economic moderation. The score incorporates music made from the seismic rumblings of [...]

image: El Manco, courtesy of Libre Gutierrez
Alfredo “Libre” Gutierrez’s paintings blow my mind. While watching YouTube videos of artist Chor Boogie (another artist who intrigues me), one thing led to another and I found myself repeatedly hitting “replay” on a video of Libre working his magic on the gallery walls of ExConvento del Carmen for his recent Se Vende exhibition in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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I am a big fan of Tokidoki and its mastermind, artist/designer Simone Legno. I am happy to see his star rising as he lands more celebrity clients, opens stores around the world, and is now designing a kids’ line for Target. Following in the footsteps of moguls like Alexander McQueen and Anni Sui, Legno has [...]

image: El Manco, courtesy of Libre Gutierrez
Alfredo “Libre” Gutierrez’s paintings blow my mind. While watching YouTube videos of artist Chor Boogie (another artist who intrigues me), one thing led to another and I found myself repeatedly hitting “replay” on a video of Libre working his magic on the gallery walls of ExConvento del Carmen for his recent Se Vende exhibition in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Originally [...]

 
This is an excerpt from season 1 of the groundbreaking show, 4Real, which paired actors, artists and musicians with young activist in remote, impoverished or war-torn communities. In this clip, M.I.A. helps Liberian activist, Kimmie Weeks, to refurbish a playground. In a community where many children have lost family members or where the children even served as [...]

I just published article “All Fired Up”about UVA alum, DJ Enferno (Eric Jao). In this video you can see Enferno working his magic doing his Live Remix Project. It’s sick! He spins, plays live music, records it, loops it, and then remixes it live.
Read the article.
Check out my DJ Enferno news and vids here.
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