Category: New York City

DETROIT: A BROOKLYN CASE STUDY by SUPERFRONT — Kickstarter


DETROIT: A BROOKLYN CASE STUDY, SUPERFRONT LA’s first exhibit of 2011, considers Detroit both as a specific city and as a set of circumstances. Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study invites not so much a comparison of Detroit and Brooklyn but a calculated misreading. How and where might the logics or circumstances of Detroit operate in Brooklyn? At what scale of intervention or performance could Detroit and Brooklyn become indistinguishable?

via DETROIT: A BROOKLYN CASE STUDY by SUPERFRONT — Kickstarter.

Jan. 12 Rally in NYC: Marching for Change in Haiti! on Vimeo

New Yorkers explain why they are coming together on January 12, 2011, the one-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, to march and rally in solidarity with the Haitian people.

via Jan. 12 Rally in NYC: Marching for Change in Haiti! on Vimeo.

Mark Anthony Neal talks with Joan Morgan and Sofia Quintero about Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls.

Mark Anthony Neal talks with Joan Morgan and Sofia Quintero about Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls. via Left of Black – Episode 9, 11-15-10, Mark Anthony Neal talks with Joan Morgan and Sofia Quintero about Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls. dukeuniversity on U….

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Maurice Evans: NBPA Not Buying Salary-Cut Talk

“With the state the economy is in, fans are not going to want to keep getting slapped in the face with players and NBA teams, as fortunate as we are financially to even be playing a game for a living, to keep throwing it in people’s face that we’re not making enough money, whether it be the league or whether it be the players.”

via RealGM: Basketball Wiretap Archives: Evans: NBPA Not Buying Salary-Cut Talk.

Matt Bai – ‘Blame the Blue Dogs’ Theory Doesn’t Hold – NYTimes.com

Similarly, it’s hard to imagine how Democrats in this last Congress could have assembled a majority and passed the president’s agenda — including what is arguably the most consequential social legislation since the Great Society — without having fielded victorious candidates in a lot of conservative districts in 2006 and 2008. In a memo just before the election, titled “Why Liberals Need Heath Shuler,” Jon Cowan and Anne Kim of the centrist group Third Way summed it up this way: “Call them ‘fake Democrats,’ but they delivered a real majority.”

via Matt Bai – ‘Blame the Blue Dogs’ Theory Doesn’t Hold – NYTimes.com.

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Next American City » Columns » The Braddock Story

Walking down the Braddock’s main street, Braddock Avenue, two weeks back, there was hardly a person in sight. Most buildings had their addresses spraypainted on in florescent orange, as is often done to condemned structures. Embracing the decay, my trusty photographer and I wandered into an abandoned dentist’s office on the forlorn strip. The building’s roof had collapsed in on itself, as had most of the floor. In a building next door, also abandoned, I found a Pittsburgh Gazette from 1993 with a brief gossip piece on Michael J. Fox’s frustration with baby boomers. “We’re the post-Pepsi generation,” said Fox. “People graduate college and work at McDonald’s. It’s a different world.”

via Next American City » Columns » The Braddock Story.

The Contradiction of Repealing Health Care Reform| Jonathan Cohn| TNR

Suppose I told you one of the political parties was determined to increase wasteful government spending by hundreds of billions of dollars, to pay the salaries of countless extra bureaucrats and to degrade the quality of medicine in the U.S. If you’ve been paying attention to politics for the last few months, you’d probably assume I was talking about the Democrats. Not so. I’d actually be talking about the Republicans who want to repeal health care reform.

via Repealing Affordable Care Act Means More, Not Less, Wasteful Government Spending | The New Republic.

What voters in the midterm elections were thinking : The New Yorker

As for “the American people” themselves, it seems clear enough that their rejection of the Democrats was, above all, an expression of angry anxiety about the ongoing economic firestorm. Though ignited and fanned by an out-of-control financial industry and its (mostly) conservative political and intellectual enablers, the fire has burned hottest since the 2008 Democratic sweep. By the time the flames reached their height, the arsonists had slunk off, and only the firemen were left for people to take out their ire on.

via What voters in the midterm elections were thinking : The New Yorker.

It Was Rubio’s Tuesday | The Weekly Standard

Stephen Hayes’ essay is more overview than analysis, but I agree with him on its key point about Rubio’s significance.  In 2004 I thought John Thune was the future of the Republican Party, but now, Rubio clearly has a good shot at that title.  Without forcing the issue (or insult a la their promotion of Michael Steele) the Republican’s may have found their party’s version of Obama.  Rubio’s narrative is a captivating one and his political skills are uncanny.

No Republican in the country offers a more compelling defense of American exceptionalism and a more powerful indictment of the Obama administration than Marco Rubio. He has had lots of practice. He ran against Obama more than he ran against either of his two opponents. On the first full day I spent with him, Rubio never once mentioned Meek, and he spoke about Charlie Crist only when responding to a question—this in a day that included a lunchtime speech at a fundraiser with Mitt Romney, a lengthy debate prep session, and two additional speeches in Plant City that evening.

via It Was Rubio’s Tuesday | The Weekly Standard.

Ross Douthat on Sarah Palin

Conservative writers have been giving her advice on how to break out of this box for more than two years now this week it was Kevin Williamson, imagining how she might boost her credibility as a presidential candidate, and I think at a certain point we all just need to stop playing make-believe and acknowledge that she isn’t interested. The politician that Jonathan Last heard on Fox News on Tuesday, never giving an inch and blaming everything on the media, is the politician Sarah Palin has become, and wants to be, and seems likely to remain.

via Commentary on Politics and Culture – Ross Douthat Blog – NYTimes.com.