Posts in: Pop culture
- Throw some cheese on it …
- You knew it was coming. By “(sand)Wich Boy.” And the original Throw Some D’s for reference. [1 Feb 2007]
- Music classification and iTunes (or Cape Verde ain’t nowhere near Latin America)
- I bought two CDs (yeah, I still do that :-)) by Cape Verdean artists* today, Rogamar by the legendary Cesaria Evora and Balancê by Sara Tavares. Now, for the geography-challenged, Cape Verde is waaaay over on the other side of the Atlantic, off the coast of Africa (roughly Senegal). Yet, weirdly, when it comes to the [...] [29 Jan 2007]
- Race and immigration
- From yesterday’s New York Times: Study of Immigrants Links Lighter Skin and Higher Income From the article: The scholar, Joni Hersch, a professor of law and economics at Vanderbilt University, looked at a government survey of 2,084 legal immigrants to the United States from around the world and found that those with the lightest skin earned an [...] [29 Jan 2007]
- Eff up. Enter rehab. Make everything okay.
- I swear that rehab / treatment is the celebrity way of paying restitution for acting like a jackass. Think about it: Mel Gibson, Lindsay Lohan and now Isaiah Washington. The Grey’s Anatomy star has entered a treatment program in an attempt to make amends for the gay slur that rocked the Golden Globes, sources confirm to [...] [24 Jan 2007]
- Thoughts on Jay-Z’s “Kingdom Come”
- Okay, I’m a latecomer to Jay-Z fandom, entering somewhere around his MTV-Unplugged album. Despite owning albums two, three and four (or maybe it was three, four and five), before his poetry reading, I never really got into Jay-Z beyond his radio singles. They just took up space in my CD rack. I’ve got most of his [...] [28 Nov 2006]
- Why Nate Robinson is my hero.
- He’s 5′9″ (1.75 meters) of pure hops, athleticism and entertaining basketball play. And oh, by the way, he blocked the shot of 7′5″ (2.25 meters) Yao Ming. Robinson is definitely one of the most exciting players in the NBA. [23 Nov 2006]
