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Dante, Dante, Dante
Happy New Year Fam,
I spent New Years Eve dressed to the nines pouring cocktails for some of NYC's creative elite at the Afro Punk/Coup de'tat Punk-N-Paint Show. Big shout out to Ms. Mary Pryor (We Fancy) & extra special thank you to Ra$u Jelani (cdtbk)!
In all it was a great night (except for the psycho who I thought I had a crush on and his strange outbursts –more on that in the next issue), perfect dresses, art abound, drinks galore, good friends, great music, and Dante's Mac & Cheese.
The later stands in a category by itself.
Now I've heard about this catering company DANTE FRIED CHICKEN for at least a year or so now. DFC have been aligning itself with the local indie music scene and catering all these high profile underground events. But I didn’t get what the big deal was... food, music, indie kids, Arab scarves...ok ok ok. I get it, and I wasn’t buying it. I thought, 'good marketing, but the food is probably "regular" at best'.
I've been converted.
That jawn was THE FOOD HIGHLIGHT of 2008. Seriously.
Dante Fried Chicken: Santogold - Coconut Mac & Cheese from Dante Fried Chicken on Vimeo.
See I don’t eat everybody's cooking and I don’t eat ANYBODY'S macaroni & cheese (I'm a bit of a food snob)...but THAT WAS THE BEST MAC & CHEESE I EVER ATE IN MY LIFE. Real talk, it was better than my Grannies!
Poor Dante, when he was not serving up plates for the hungry masses in attendance, he spent the entire evening avoiding eye contact with me. I was doing mad Jedi Mind tricks trying to score an extra plate.
xoxo
P.S. I can only hope your 2009 turns out to be as rich and creamy. The Toy Plane wishes you sincere love and abundance for the New Year.
4 PROPELLERS
I spent New Years Eve dressed to the nines pouring cocktails for some of NYC's creative elite at the Afro Punk/Coup de'tat Punk-N-Paint Show. Big shout out to Ms. Mary Pryor (We Fancy) & extra special thank you to Ra$u Jelani (cdtbk)!
In all it was a great night (except for the psycho who I thought I had a crush on and his strange outbursts –more on that in the next issue), perfect dresses, art abound, drinks galore, good friends, great music, and Dante's Mac & Cheese.
The later stands in a category by itself.
Now I've heard about this catering company DANTE FRIED CHICKEN for at least a year or so now. DFC have been aligning itself with the local indie music scene and catering all these high profile underground events. But I didn’t get what the big deal was... food, music, indie kids, Arab scarves...ok ok ok. I get it, and I wasn’t buying it. I thought, 'good marketing, but the food is probably "regular" at best'.
I've been converted.
That jawn was THE FOOD HIGHLIGHT of 2008. Seriously.
Dante Fried Chicken: Santogold - Coconut Mac & Cheese from Dante Fried Chicken on Vimeo.
See I don’t eat everybody's cooking and I don’t eat ANYBODY'S macaroni & cheese (I'm a bit of a food snob)...but THAT WAS THE BEST MAC & CHEESE I EVER ATE IN MY LIFE. Real talk, it was better than my Grannies!
Poor Dante, when he was not serving up plates for the hungry masses in attendance, he spent the entire evening avoiding eye contact with me. I was doing mad Jedi Mind tricks trying to score an extra plate.
xoxo
P.S. I can only hope your 2009 turns out to be as rich and creamy. The Toy Plane wishes you sincere love and abundance for the New Year.
4 PROPELLERS
When in Salzburg do cafe as the Austrians!
Welcome to The Afro Cafe. An African-pop graphic mini world that in addition to catering to (our) genetic dispositions for bold color and pattern -serves a wicked cappuccino.
But truth be told, we are not sure what to make of this place. While we freely admit to “freaking loving” the décor, we aren’t certain it’s not a racist -think new school Aunt Jemima & Uncle Tom- characterture themed coffee shop franchise. The website boasts the fact that food is ‘All served by our funky Afro staff’ and that one can come in and “find yourself a cocoa-skinned lady.”
An appreciation of black female beauty, black people working, African inspired décor, what’s so wrong with that aye? Well, it would be completely harmless and maybe even pretty darn swell if say…Samuel Jackson or ANY other BROWN person thought this could be-master marketing piece up. But because this project was created by Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz, were not so sure.
Dialectics matter don’t you think? So while the jury is out, we are staying clear. It’s too damn bad. We’ve got the perfect place for those tea cups.
To see what other lovely-lovies this place has, book a trip to Austria or get there the cheap way.
Rahdie at Rush!
CHECK THE ::UPDATE:: (WAY) BELOW
We received this very cryptic email in our box a couple days ago. It was from one of our besties who has been secretly working on some kind of project,show,performance art thing. The invitation conflicted with other stuff on our calender and because of the short notice we contemplated just sticking to our original plan and sending our best regards...That was until we saw the flyer.
We still don't know exactly what we're going to see our brilliant friewin (friend+twin) do, but we're going!
(Sorry Raphael, but I couldn't miss this!)
:::IN AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN WHAT THIS PIECE IS, THE FOLLOWING HAS BEN SNAGGED FROM THE PLAYWRIGHTS(?) BLOG, WE PROMISE A PROPER SYNOPSIS WHEN WE FIGURE IT OUT:::
IN PROGRESS:
Michael Paul Britto
This Little Word of Mine
August 1 - September 6, 2008
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Thursday, August 21, 2008 6-8 PM
Thursday, August 28, 2008 6-8 PM
Thursday, September 4, 2008 6-8 PM
Closing Reception: Saturday September 6, 2008: 6 – 8
Church revival is the theme of Michael Paul Britto’s This Little Word of Mine, the second installment of Rush Arts Gallery’s In Progress Series. During his month-long residency, Britto will stage this revival, complete with choir members and a preacher who will perform a live set consisting of video and music mixing. The Preacher will conduct the choir and the choir will respond to comments made in the video clips, prompting the audience to join in and participate as if in church.
“In his latest piece, Michael Paul Britto contributes to a new ethics of pop cultural consumption by imaginatively restaging debates surrounding African American vernacular cultures and their popular representation. Britto extends his longstanding critique of popular representations of “blackness” and unveils the continued inscriptions of America’s history of racial hierarchy on those representations in a multimedia performance piece that mimics the call-and-response form
of African American religious traditions and focuses on, as he puts it, “the use and misuse of the ‘N’ word.”“
- Evans Richardson, Guest Writer
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P.S. The red wig is what got me. Love you Blank!
::UPDATE:: 9/5/08
I'm still not sure what I saw. But I came to this profound, mighty conclusion."Nigger" is a word concept, that never fails to offend, shock, provoke and motivate people to do interesting things. Sometimes the 'thing' is art.
Imagine going down home to visit your 'Grandmother-Dears' First AME Zion Methodist Church of the Lord Nigger Christ . On revival Sunday.
Nuff said.
We received this very cryptic email in our box a couple days ago. It was from one of our besties who has been secretly working on some kind of project,show,performance art thing. The invitation conflicted with other stuff on our calender and because of the short notice we contemplated just sticking to our original plan and sending our best regards...That was until we saw the flyer.
We still don't know exactly what we're going to see our brilliant friewin (friend+twin) do, but we're going!
(Sorry Raphael, but I couldn't miss this!)
RUSH ARTS GALLERY
526 West 26th Street, suite 311
New York, New York
526 West 26th Street, suite 311
New York, New York
:::IN AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN WHAT THIS PIECE IS, THE FOLLOWING HAS BEN SNAGGED FROM THE PLAYWRIGHTS(?) BLOG, WE PROMISE A PROPER SYNOPSIS WHEN WE FIGURE IT OUT:::IN PROGRESS:
Michael Paul Britto
This Little Word of Mine
August 1 - September 6, 2008
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Thursday, August 21, 2008 6-8 PM
Thursday, August 28, 2008 6-8 PM
Thursday, September 4, 2008 6-8 PM
Closing Reception: Saturday September 6, 2008: 6 – 8
Church revival is the theme of Michael Paul Britto’s This Little Word of Mine, the second installment of Rush Arts Gallery’s In Progress Series. During his month-long residency, Britto will stage this revival, complete with choir members and a preacher who will perform a live set consisting of video and music mixing. The Preacher will conduct the choir and the choir will respond to comments made in the video clips, prompting the audience to join in and participate as if in church.
“In his latest piece, Michael Paul Britto contributes to a new ethics of pop cultural consumption by imaginatively restaging debates surrounding African American vernacular cultures and their popular representation. Britto extends his longstanding critique of popular representations of “blackness” and unveils the continued inscriptions of America’s history of racial hierarchy on those representations in a multimedia performance piece that mimics the call-and-response form
of African American religious traditions and focuses on, as he puts it, “the use and misuse of the ‘N’ word.”“
- Evans Richardson, Guest Writer
###
P.S. The red wig is what got me. Love you Blank!
::UPDATE:: 9/5/08
I'm still not sure what I saw. But I came to this profound, mighty conclusion."Nigger" is a word concept, that never fails to offend, shock, provoke and motivate people to do interesting things. Sometimes the 'thing' is art.
Imagine going down home to visit your 'Grandmother-Dears' First AME Zion Methodist Church of the Lord Nigger Christ . On revival Sunday.
Nuff said.
A Music Review Named "Life is Real"
Believe it or not, I'm not a member of the "music is healing, music is God, music makes the world spin on its axis, I can’t live without my radio" cult.
Call me an old soul, who only get moved by, well what actually moves me. Make me dance or cry, get me angry or horny, spark the mosh pit and make me two-step till I sweat. Or don’t even bother.
Now don’t get me wrong. I’d love to chase good music but it’s just to tiring. Somehow it still finds me though. Every once in a while I hear something that makes the earth move under my feet.
So it’s circa 2007 and out of the cosmos comes a girl named Ayo with an album wackly titled JOYFUL.
Aside from the album title, this Nigerian-German songbird deserved all praises due. But if singing in a language not your own, producing and arranging your own music isn't enough to convince the hardcore; then lyrically she deads all ill noise. Emotional and heartfelt her delicately nuanced verbs and nouns never came off as pink or gushy nor were we left ever feeling embarrassed for her.
Let me try and break it down like this.
Remember the first time you heard that MJB joint -you pick the one- where you got all caught up in the moment and got a little misty around the eye region? And although nothing even remotely like a Hailey brother beat down might have actually happened in your world - you still felt the shit out of Mary’s pain. And after the song was done you felt like you’d dropped a burden from your shoulders -realizing how much you probably needed that cry.
Cliché? Well yes - but Ayo’s sound was kind of like that. She made music that actually hurt to listen to; but didn't hurt to listen to. Not predictably optimistic or becoming slit your wrist music; JOYFUL managed a harmony rarely found in its genre.
While the strength of her talent was clearly rooted in the ability to make grown men weep, she had a few toe tappers (and a few joints just itching for deep house remixes) thrown in for good measure. Midway through JOYFUL Mami got all flirty-like on the Abbey Lincoln remake of “Supposed to Be Love”( For some reason we feel Lilly Allen should be somewhere taking notes). With JOYFUL Ayo did some cool stuff, and she did it all pretty damn well.
Anyway, yeah it’s an “old” album, but we just came across these videos for the first time today and it reminded us of how much we dig this girl.
Well made and built to last. Kind of like your daddies Chevy.
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