The CultureNOW app transforms New York City into one big apple museum. This application is great for tourists, commuters, pedestrians and bikers.
Monthly Archives: August 2011
CULTURE ON A BUDGET > Autumn Savings
Summer is coming to an end in a month and many of you have already taken your vacations. While you may have used most of your vacation time, there may be a couple days that you can use towards a long weekend. There are a nice amount of websites that can save you time and money with planning your extended weekend excursion.
Electronic Dance
Bronx-born Jennifer Lopez put a hint of house music back on the map with “On the Floor” in 2011. The song is an infusion of dance-pop, electropop and electro-house. “On the Floor” samples the 1989 song, “Lambada” by Kaoma, a multinational French pop group. Koama’s members were from Guadeloupe, Brazil, and Martinique.
Multinational Debut Novelists Take New York
It is easy to assume that a writer’s debut novel will take an at least partially autobiographical form. We imagine authors living their stories before putting them onto paper; their voices emerge once they manage to organize their thoughts and observations into a narrative. Only then, with their distinct selves discovered, structured, and shared, are …
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The View from a Volcano
Through August 27th, New York City art space The Kitchen is hosting a two-month retrospective of its auspicious first fifteen years as a bastion for the downtown art scene of the seventies and eighties. Now located in Chelsea, The Kitchen stood in Soho for its first fifteen years, where it supported the wild, defiant expressionism of a very pre-Giuliani metropolis.
CYBERCULTURE > OpenStudy | ChinesePod | TwoChop
Studying can be fairly antisocial. Writing papers and studying for exams are solitary activities, but OpenStudy, a social learning network demoing at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Start-up Alley, aims to change that. OpenStudy connects students in distant locations in what CEO Chris Sprague calls a ‘massively multiplayer classroom’.