Shopping online these days can be fun, but saving money can be just as enjoyable. Now, one can go on their smartphone and make purchases securely and fast with a few touches. There are websites now that will assist you with deals based on a pre-planned service or product. Many of these specials are for dining and drinks, but they can vary for many other packages.
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Rap: BALTIMORE | SWEDEN | LONDON | SRI LANKA | QUEENS | TRINIDAD
Rye Rye is a rapper/dancer from Baltimore. The talent is signed to N.E.E.T (Not in Education, Employment or Training) Recordings, a label founded by M.I.A.
Christy Turlington Burns: Global Supermodel to Global Superadvocate
Christy Turlington Burns, the California-born beauty of Salvadoran descent, is more than a supermodel. She’s also an advocate for human rights, a yoga practitioner, a businesswoman, and a mother.
Rihanna Makes the Sweetest Summer Festival Sweeter this Year!
Unless you’re from Barbados, you probably learned about the Crop Festival for the first time in your life just this week. Rihanna’s appearance at the Festival’s Grand Kadooment and Emancipation Day event resulted in online entertainment headlines all over the internet that introduced the world to the Crop Over Festival.
Zazen and the Art of Vanessa Veselka
Ever since H.G. Wells published his speculative sci-fi telegram The Shape of Things to Come in 1933, numerous artists have adapted his title to suit their own prophecies. Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come demanded that the genre evolve or face irrelevance. Swedish band Refused did the same for underground rock with The Shape of Punk to Come. Ornette and Refused don’t sound particularly alike, but they both purported that music, and art in general, loses all power and urgency once it has become fashionable, marketable, a commodity of mass culture. They were onto something––––after all, this is a world in which Che Guevara t-shirts are sold at shopping malls.
