Hip-Hop Magazine No Longer Accepts Ads for Lewd Products

Hip-Hop Magazine No Longer Accepts Ads for Lewd Products

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA

One thing magazine advertising and hip-hop music have always had in common is skin — images of models, usually women, in alluring poses and various states of undress. The Source, the hip-hop magazine, does not aim to do away with such images — there is a lot of money in them — but it wants to make the sex in its pages a lot less explicit.

To that end, the magazine announced recently that it would no longer take what the co-publisher, L. Londell McMillan, calls “booty ads,” for pornographic films, pornographic Web sites or escort services. But those have been a mainstay for The Source — more than half the ads in the magazine at times, he said.

The Source hopes to gain more than it loses by chasing mainstream advertisers that do not want their ads alongside the adults-only kind. That’s a serious gamble at a time when magazines are struggling, unable to hold onto the ads they have.

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¿Qué Bajo?

Date: Thursday, January 22nd
Time:10:00pm
Location: APT (419 W 13th St)
Cost: Free

Brooklyn’s future-latin sound weekly combining Afro-Colombian and classic Latin heat with tropical beats and bass is on the move. Que Bajo heads to the Meat Pack tonight for a special Manhattan version of their party, “bringing the tropical sound into the city for all the uptown massive that has a hard time making it out to Billyburg on a school night. 21+

King Django Septet

FreeNYC Event Flyer

Date: Friday, January 23rd
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Shrine (2271 7th Ave bet 133rd and 134th St)
Cost: Free

Is the fourth wave upon us yet? NYC ska legend King Django headlines a rare live show with his septet (that means a full horns section folks) tonight on a mixed bill with Brian Sizensky (Acoustic / Indie / Rock) and Jonah Smith (Rock / Indie / Acoustic). 21+

History links King holiday, Obama inauguration

By ERRIN HAINES

The Associated Press

January 16, 2009

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Martin Luther King’s flame has always burned brightest in Atlanta, but in a real sense, the torch is being passed to Washington, D.C., with his birthday and holiday taking on dual meaning for many Americans because it falls on the eve of Barack Obama’s inauguration.

While Georgia’s capital has traditionally been the place for the most high-profile observance that day, this year it will share the spotlight with the nation’s capital.

But the shift from King’s hometown does nothing to diminish the excitement of the moment, said William Jelani Cobb, an American history professor at Atlanta’s Spelman College.

‘That we would have a celebration of King’s birth and the inauguration of the first black president on consecutive days is almost too much to ask for,’ Cobb said. ‘(Barack) Obama’s election represents the fulfillment of the most well-known of King’s dreams, that people would be judged by the content of their character.’

As for Obama, part of his King Day will be spent volunteering as part of a national call for service. The back-to-back King holiday and inauguration are expected to draw millions.

Still, Atlanta will be in the spotlight with the traditional pomp and circumstance at King’s spiritual home, Ebenezer Baptist Church, including the ceremonial wreath laying at the tomb and the ecumenical service. But this year’s keynote speaker is Pastor Rick Warren, a Southern Baptist who opposes gay marriage.

That speech is just a warm-up, with Warren whisking away to Washington to give the invocation at Tuesday’s inauguration, which is expected to draw more than 3 million people. Gay advocates assailed Obama for choosing Warren, while many conservative Christians hailed the pick.

For many, Obama’s swearing in will be a culmination of a long holiday weekend in D.C. for King and inaugural events.

La’Keitha Daniels, an attorney in Atlanta, has been to the King service at Ebenezer, where King preached from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. She was also there last year when Obama came on the Sunday before the federal holiday.

This holiday, though, will be spent honoring both men in Washington.

‘Hundreds of thousands of people are going there because it’s the beginning of Dr. King’s dream being realized,’ Daniels said. ‘Everyone feels that we are truly on the cusp of change and seeing the things he only dreamt about becoming a reality.’

For months, the King legacy permeated Obama’s campaign. He invoked the Southern Baptist preacher many times during his candidacy and accepted the Democratic nomination for president on the 40th anniversary of King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.

King’s nephew, Isaac Newton Farris Jr., believes his uncle’s birthday has even more special meaning this year.

‘Clearly, we set the tone in Atlanta in past years,’ said Farris, president and chief executive officer of The King Center where the preacher and his widow, Coretta Scott King, are entombed and where an eternal flame burns in civil rights leader’s honor.

But this year will be clearly different. Only one of King’s four children, Bernice, will attend the church service. Martin Luther King III will already be in Washington and Dexter King _ who lives in California _ will not be in Atlanta. Their sister, Yolanda, died in 2007.

Even Ebenezer’s pastor, the Rev. Raphael Warnock, won’t be around for the service for the first time since 2004. He’s heading to Washington.

‘If anything, the inauguration underscores once again the continuing significance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s prophetic voice in his time, and in our own,’ Warnock said. ‘It has raised the American consciousness of the work of a prophet that it held at arms’ length during his lifetime.’

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On the Net:

The King Center: http://thekingcenter.org

2 Churches, Black and White, See Inaugural Hope

2 Churches, Black and White, See Inaugural Hope

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

EBENEZER METHODIST Barack Obama’s victory plumbed the emotional depths of the church’s 60 mostly elderly members.

By MICHAEL POWELL

WASHINGTON — Two Methodist churches have stood on the same block on Capitol Hill for a century, one congregation black and the other white, and in between lies the sorry detritus of a nation’s racial history.
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‘Not Much of a Block,’ but It’s Named for a King

‘Not Much of a Block,’ but It’s Named for a King

Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times

Martin Luther King Jr. Place in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, was named for the civil rights leader six years after his assassination.

By JAMES BARRON

It is a little street, only a block long, between two big housing projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park — all pavement, no grass to speak of.

On a gray afternoon in January, other streets probably look as forlorn. But this is the only one in Brooklyn named for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who will be remembered on Monday, the federal holiday celebrating his birth 80 years ago last Thursday.

A fast check of a Hagstrom’s New York City atlas indicated that two boroughs — Queens and Staten Island — have no streets named for Dr. King. The one everyone seems to know about, the one in Harlem, is also called 125th Street, and the one in the Bronx is also known as University Avenue.

The city also has a Martin Luther King Jr. housing project, less than a dozen blocks south of the Harlem street; a Martin Luther King Jr. High School, near Lincoln Center; and a Martin Luther King Triangle, in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx. It is a park one-sixteenth of an acre in size.READ MORE…[NYT]

Indian Road Café

* Weekly Events / Updates *
* @ Indian Road Café *
* January 19 - 25 2009 *
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Dear Friends and Neighbors,

INDIAN ROAD EVENTS... 

MONDAY, JANUARY 19th
7:00PM - Indian Road Knitting Circle
Come join the circle for a glass of wine and a relaxing evening of knitting. No experience necessary.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20th INAGURATION DAY PARTY
8:45PM - Live Music with Lowell Marin
Join us for a fun evening of rock and blues (and maybe a little presidential trivia thrown in.) With food and drink specials all evening.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21st
8:00PM - Trivia night with The Amazing Rando & Special Surpirse Guest, Professor Moriarty
Win great prizes including Broadway and sporting event tickets compliments of www.allshows.com. With drink specials all evening. 

In other news, we have now extended brunch to Saturdays from 11:30am - 3:30pm. Brunch remains from 10:30am - 3:30pm on Sunday. 

As Always visit our Event Calendar on our website for Updated Events (htt p://indianroadcafe.com/Calendar.html) 

See You There! 

Indian Road Café & Market 

Contact Information
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email: info@indianroadcafe.com
phone: 212-942-7451
web: http://www.indianroadcafe.com
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Mouthing Off

Mouthing Off

By MICHAEL POLLAK

Mouthing Off

Q. Are there any limits to what I can say to a New York police officer?

A. It is a very bad idea to curse at a police officer, but it is not illegal by itself, a New York police spokesman and private lawyers agree.

Norman Siegel, a former executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said that courts had ruled that a person cannot be arrested or given a summons just for swearing at an officer, however undesirable the language might be.

“It’s legally protected, and I advise people not to curse at anyone, including police officers, but if you do, it’s not grounds for an arrest,” Mr. Siegel said. Paul J. Browne, the police spokesman, concurred.

However, other lawyers noted, cursing at the scene of a disturbance might be considered part of a broader action that is illegal — for instance, threatening an officer, or inciting to riot, or refusing, with an expletive, to move when ordered. Obscenity accompanying some type of unlawful conduct might form the basis of a criminal charge. [NYT]

City Shifts Girls’ Soccer From Spring to the Fall – NYTimes.com

City Shifts Girls’ Soccer From Spring to the Fall

By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ

For 28 years, girls in New York City have had to wait until spring to take out their soccer cleats. They stood on the sidelines as their male counterparts used the fall season to show off for college recruiters. Now, facing charges of discrimination and the threat of a lawsuit, the Department of Education has agreed to move the girls’ soccer season to the fall.READ MORE…[NYT]

Four Stabbed in Everyday Struggle After Notorious

 

Four Stabbed in Everyday Struggle After Notorious

Photo Courtesy AP/Phil Caruso

Much like the tragic story that had just been seen on screen, an afterparty for the opening night of Notorious turned violent Friday when four men were stabbed inside a Brooklyn nightclub. A chaotic scene emerged as one clubgoer described it, “I didn’t know what happened, but whenever people start screaming and running out of a club it means someone either has a gun or a knife, and I wasn’t going to stick around to find out which it was.“

21-year-old Antwione Jones is in critical condition at the Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center after the incident at DJumbala in East Flatbush. Jones is engaged and has a 2-year-old-daughter with his fiancée. The three other victims are all in stable condition.

DJumbala had claimed on its MySpace page that it was the official after party for the opening night of the biopic depicting the life and death of Brooklyn-born rapper Notorious B.I.G. But Fox Searchlight told the press that the party had no connection to the film.

Reports from the scene of the crime provided murky details with what exactly went down to provoke the incident. Police told the News in reference to the victims, “We’re not getting too much information out of them.” An anonymous witness simply told the paper, “It looked like an ugly rodeo inside.”

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