Urban Kook
Bryan Hiott's Podcast Ravings On Art, Politics and Pop Culture
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Story Corps Interview
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Maureen Dowd Sums Up Hillary
The latest Washington Post/ABC poll in Iowa shows Barack Obama four points ahead of Hillary Clinton. In her New York Times column today, Maureen Dowd sums up why the former First Lady is having so much trouble in her campaign: lack of authenticity.The public still has no idea of what part of [ ...
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Obama Perfectly Counters Hillary Cackle
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Miss Ohio's Beehive Hairdo (Video)
With her boyfriend about to be released from prison, Miss Ohio visits La Jean Beauty Parlor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to get a little glamor into her life. It took several cans of hairspray to achieve maximum height for her beehive. Show Notes 1. According to a review at billburg.com, La Jean ...
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Bill Stumbles For Hill
By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAYWASHINGTON ?? It was a partial clause in a sentence uttered in Muscatine, Iowa. But Bill Clinton's assertion Monday that he'd opposed the Iraq war "from the beginning" triggered outbursts across the political spectrum. From the left, the right and the media es ...
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Transvestites Attack McDonald's
MEMPHIS, Tenn. ?? A troublesome trio of transvestites allegedly laid siege to a Memphis McDonald's restaurant Sunday night, sparking a brawl with the restaurant's crew, according to reports. Police said they were working on a more detailed description of th ...
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Clinton & Obama Switch Roles In Iowa
By: Mike Allen and Carrie Budoff Brown November 26, 2007 12:46 PM EST DES MOINES In a reversal of fortune, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is barnstorming Iowa with a front-runner??s swagger while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) scrambles like an underdog. In ways big and small over the week ...
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Bureau of Workplace Interruptions
Bureau of Workplace Interruptions is a time-stealing agency who work with employees to interrupt the flow of their workday. The purpose is to invigorate some of the time people spend at work in order to create new experiences and possibilities outside the flow of capital.So, if you're an employee wh ...
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NYC Subway Music - Nicola
Location of Recording: Union Square Subway Station (Nov. 21, 2007)From Nicola's bio: Over the last few years and 2 LPs, Nicola and her band have racked up an impressive list of rock credentials: she??s been featured on ABC World News?? ??Music Under New York,?? vh1.com, ??Women Who Rock?? ...
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JFK in Dallas - November 22, 1963
This is a series of images in QuickTime movie format of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963 and of the events following his assassination. The images are accompanied by the U.S. Army Band playing "From Sea to Shining Sea," which is also on the sou ...
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How To Carve The Turkey
Concerned about my culinary skills, my father-in-law from South Carolina calls me and reads from an article in The Greenville News entitled, "How To Carve The Turkey." I'm still not so sure I'm ready to try carving a hulking bird. Debbie and I will probably go to Sylvia's Soul Food K ...
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NYC Subway Music - The Drumatics (#2)
You can probably tell...I really like The Drumatics. This is an amazing group of performers who I listened to last weekend in the Union Square subway station. As the mp3 begins, I'm at a distance and walking toward the group. I knew that I was going to like them and sta ...
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A Secret Campaign and Dirty Tricks
The Times of LondonNovember 19, 2007The mud is starting to fly in the 2008 presidential race, with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama trading shots over rumours of a secret scandal while Republican rivals of Mitt Romney have been forced to deny being behind an underhand attack on his Mormon faith. ...
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NYC Subway Music - The Drumatics (#1)
The Drumatics are an amazing group of fusion musicians who I heard last Friday evening in the Union Square subway station in Manhattan. They combine the bucket drums of hip hop street culture with African jembe, shaker, bass drum, African dun duns and the alto sax and bass sax of jazz. T ...
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NYC Subway Music - The Drumatics
The Drumatics are an amazing group of fusion musicians who I heard last Friday evening in the Union Square subway station in Manhattan. They combine the bucket drums of hip hop street culture with African jembe, shaker, bass drum, African dun duns and the alto sax and bass sax of jazz. T ...
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Get Ready To Stop Shopping
STOP SHOPPING TO GO GREEN: This November 23rd in the USA and Canada and November 24th internationally, environmentalists, social activists and concerned citizens in as many as 65 countries will hit the streets for a 24-hour consumer fast in celebration of the 15th annual Buy Nothing Day, a global cu ...
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NYC Subway Music - Saxaphone Player
One of the random things that makes New York City great, an abundance of musicians - many of them very good - who play on the subway platforms every day. Many times I take them for granted; but just as often I stop and listen...and contribute. I heard this solo saxaphone player on the Seventh Ave ...
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Imus Is Back!
by Felix Gillette Published: November 13, 2007 Tags: Media, Don Imus This article was published in the November 19, 2007, edition of The New York Observer. Reconstructing Don: The undisgraced urban cowboy is bringing his cr ...
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Taxi Ride To Apple Store Soho
On my way to the Apple Store Soho, I talk computers with a cabbie named Nick, who builds his own. I was a bit foggy on the directions, having been a big hurry as I was looking at the Google map. I had the street wrong; but Nick knew just where the Apple Store was. The fare from Parsons The New Scho ...
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Queen Hillary's Distruptive Court
The press corps finally wakes up to her waffling and evasions. Plus: Norman Mailer's largely forgotten legacy and our disappointing lesbian icons! By Camille Paglia Nov. 14, 2007 | The mainstream media have been in a breathless tizzy about how Hillary Clinton waffled, tripped, stum ...
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