The Freedom Dance Party with special guest Cameo

The Freedom Dance Party with special guest Cameo

Date: July 2, 2013

Join The Freedom Dance Party as they celebrate 10 years of weekly parties with a huge live performance with Funk and R&B legend, Cameo!

The Freedom Dance Party is the longest running, weekly, Friday-night party in NYC history. Winner of Papermag's highly coveted award for “Best Party (People's Choice)” and runner up in URB magazine's “Best Party” (nationwide), Freedom was created in 2003 by Herbert Holler, DJ Cosi and Marc Smooth to provide a party for people from all walks of life to dance and be free. Today, it is a bona fide nightlife institution and takes place at Le Poisson Rouge. Playing an incredible mix of danceable, soulful hits from the 60s through today, including Rap, House, Disco, R&B classics, Rock, Reggae, 80s, Electronica, Latin, Afrobeat and more, Freedom continues to fill its dance floor each week with fun, beautiful people from all over the globe looking to have an unforgettable, true NYC party experience.

Selling more than 17 million albums worldwide, Cameo is one of the most popular Funk/Rock and Soul bands of its era. For nearly four decades, Cameo has maintained its core funkiness and has been churning out trailblazing hits that have permanently marked major turning points in music and set the standard that many have tried to duplicate and follow.

Start time: 6:00 pm

End time: 10:00 pm

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Location: Rumsey Playfield (in Central Park)

The Freedom Dance Party with special guest Cameo
Sun, 30 Jun 2013 04:00:03 GMT

Joe Bataan / Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue

Joe Bataan / Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue

Date: July 2, 2013

Joe Bataan, called the “King of Latin Soul,” was influenced by the melodic sounds of Doo-Wop and the energy of Latin music that were the hallmarks of his Spanish Harlem neighborhood. The famed Fania Records found this intersection of sound and culture enticing and propelled Bataan to become a major force in the “Latin Boogaloo” music scene with hits like “Gypsy Woman” and “My Cloud.”

Felix Hernandez is in the business of remembering the good ol’ days. Hernandez’s wildly popular radio show, Rhythm Revue, takes on a life of its own at New York’s Roseland, where three thousand disciples regularly come to hear Fernandez spin the sounds of the past and boogie down. Felix Hernandez will rock the crowd once again at SummerStage again with his mix of soul, Motown, funk, salsa and disco dance classics. Bring your dancing shoes.

Start time: 6:00 pm

End time: 8:00 pm

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Location: Soundview Park

Joe Bataan / Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue
Sun, 30 Jun 2013 04:00:03 GMT

Outrage after Mayor Bloomberg says whites are stopped and frisked more frequently than minorities

Outrage after Mayor Bloomberg says whites are stopped and frisked more frequently than minorities

By YOAV GONEN and DAN MACLEOD

Mayor Bloomberg’s off-the-cuff comments have finally come back to bite him.
Hizzoner declared yesterday that whites are stopped and frisked at a higher rate than minorities based on city crime statistics — giving instant ammunition to his political opponents.
“I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little. It’s exactly the reverse of what they say,” Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show.
Bloomberg argued that black and Hispanic males are stopped disproportionately to the rate they are suspects in crimes — and that his critics base their statistics on the overall population.

Tomas E. Gaston

Mayor Bloomberg

But mayoral candidates seized the opportunity to take a shot at the man they hope to replace.
“The mayor’s comments seem to indicate that if you’re black or Latino, you’re automatically a murder suspect in the city of New York,” said Bill Thompson.
“What he indicates to the hundreds of thousands of people who are stopped and frisked unnecessarily in past years is that ‘we’re sorry we didn’t stop more people in the city of New York.’ ”
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said he was “outraged.”
“[The mayor] literally said the police aren’t stopping black and Latino people enough — that by the statistics, there should be more stops, particularly of young men,” de Blasio said. “That is unacceptable. It’s out of touch, it’s insensitive, and I dare say it is hurtful to people all over the city.”
Christine Quinn also criticized the mayor.
“I disagree strongly with the mayor on this point. We have too many stops that overwhelmingly focus on young men of color, yielding very few weapons,” she said.
Bloomberg cited NYPD statistics stating that whites make up 7 percent of all murder suspects, but 9 percent of all stops. Meanwhile, 87 percent of those who are stopped and frisked are people of color, though they made up 90 percent of all murder suspects.
“I don’t know where they went to school, but they certainly didn’t take a math course. Or a logic course,” he said of stop-and-frisk critics. “People say, well, you know, cops shouldn’t be stopping so many of any one group . . . The cops’ job is to stop so many of groups fitting the description. It’s society’s job to make sure that no one group is disproportionately represented as potential perpetrators.”
His comments followed the City Council’s passage of two bills on Thursday aimed at curbing the practice. One bill creates an inspector general in charge of monitoring the NYPD, and the other makes it easier to sue the city for racial profiling. They passed with a veto-proof majority, but Bloomberg has said he would pressure council members to vote against overriding.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly last month said as many as 75 percent of the suspects in major crimes were described as black, though they make up 53 percent of stops.
“So really, African-Americans are being under-stopped in relation to the percentage of people being described as being the perpetrators of violent crime,” he said on TV’s “Nightline.” The stark reality is that a crime happens in communities of color.”
Additional reporting by Jensen Werley

Outrage after Mayor Bloomberg says whites are stopped and frisked more frequently than minorities
Rafael Martínez Alequín
Sat, 29 Jun 2013 21:10:00 GMT

Fw: Events at Indian Road, 6/28-7/4

600 West 218th Street, New York, NY 10034  EVENTS AT INDIAN ROAD, 6/28-7/4 Dyckman Ferry, 1936      FRIDAY, JUNE 28th   8PM, LIVE MUSIC: Bliss Blood and Al Street Their songs are erotic, sensual, stripped-down rhapsodies to longing, love, heartbreak, and secret desires, and tap into musical styles from across the sound spectrum, from flamenco to jazz to punk rock to North African music, anchored by Al Street's lyrical, virtuosic guitar, and Bliss Blood's dreamy, cinematic, and deeply amorous lyrics.   SATURDAY, JUNE 29th 8PM, LIVE MUSIC: Jazz with The Upper Manhattan Collective     11PM, INDIAN ROAD CAFÉ "B" MOVIE NIGHT   HOSTED BY FOZZIE BARE RAPPIN' (1985) In Rappin', Mario Van Peebles is John Hood, a con who when released from jail goes back to his neighborhood to find his girl shacked up with a nasty gang-leader named Duane (Charles Flohe). Duane is on the take with a corrupt contractor who plans to tear down Hood's neighborhood and he and his gang serve as ruffian rowdies who help evict the tenants. John Hood will not put up with this nonsense; he throws a community rap session and gets everybody aligned against the bad guys. His rappin' is so ratin' that he (SPOILER ALERT) impresses a record company and wins his gal back.   1 - 3:30PM, Sunday Songs with Steve Murphy Now in his fourth year at IRC, the Cafés longest running musical act plays piano medleys from The Beatles, Gershwin, Joel, Porter, Ragtime, Rogers and Hart, Broadway and a bit of opera. Impromptu solos of all styles receive a free drink or dessert.     7PM, LIVE MUSIC: Jazz with The Jerry DeVore Trio    MONDAY thru FRIDAY 4 - 7PM, Happy Hour at the bar   MONDAY, JULY 1st   8PM, OPEN MIC WITH ORVILLE DAVIS For 187 years in Inwood, Monday nights have seen serious singer-songwriters performing originals and covers; country, rock, folk, jazz, gospel, and alt whatever; electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, accordions, harmonicas, flutes, keyboards, trombones, saxophones, basses (standup, electric, and acoustic) drums, a cello, and even a berimbau (you can look it up). Everyone is welcome to perform anything--including stand up and spoken word.   TUESDAY, JULY 2nd 7PM, Indian Road Knitting Circle Come on in, have a glass of wine and/or dinner, and knit.    This week-Amanda Bynes Film Festival: Final Stages Planning                    7:30PM, LOST INWOOD:   slides, photos & artifacts from our neighborhood's past TONIGHT: Inwood's Native American History     LOST INWOOD will explore Inwood's rich Native American history.  We'll take a look at turn of the century photos of local archeological digs and discuss the stories behind them.   From there we'll explore some more recent park inhabitants including "Princess" Naomie Kennedy and the staff of the "Indian Life Reservation."   And to add true authenticity to the evening members of the Shorakapok Earth Keepers will also join us.    WEDNESDAY, JULY 3rd   8 - 10PM, Trivia Night with the Dr. Jordan, the Evil Mr. Phil & (sometimes) OJ the Imposter Come on out and join up with your friends and neighbors for a night of raucous fun and great prizes, including tickets to Broadway and sporting events.   THURSDAY, JULY 4th   BBQ food and drink specials all day long    Hendrick's Beer of the Week is on hiatus for 2 weeks Forward this email . Indian Road Cafe | 600 West 218th Street | New York | NY | 10034

Fw: National Jazz Museum in Harlem All-Stars Play Gordon Parks + Spring 2013 exhibitions closing this weekend!

Spring 2013 exhibitions and projects on view through June 30, 2013 Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Studio Museum | E-Newsletter | June 28, 2013  studiomuseum.org/event-calendar Friday, June 28, 2013, 7PM  The National Jazz Museum in Harlem All-Stars Play Gordon Parks, led by Harlem Resident Jason Marshall Join the National Jazz Museum in Harlem All Stars, led by long time Harlemite Jason Marshall, for an exciting, interactive concert as they perform to a selection of photographs from the exhibition Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967. Come see if you can identify the sound of a sleeping child, a busy Harlem street corner, a family at their kitchen table and more! We would like to offer you LAST CHANCE discounted tickets for The National Jazz Museum in Harlem All-Stars, led by Harlem resident Jason Marshall. Please visit our page on Brown Paper Tickets to reserve your $10 tickets; use promotional code 50OFFNJMH where prompted (case sensitive). This offer is valid through 5:00 PM (EST), Friday, June 28, 2013.    Last Chance to see Spring 2013 Exhibitions, closing this Sunday! This is your last weekend to see David Hartt: Stray Light, Fred Wilson: Local Color, Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967,  Assembly Required: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Brothers and Sisters, Ayé A. Aton: Space-Time Continuum, Mendi + Keith Obadike: American Cypher, and Harlem Postcards Spring 2013!  Also, enjoy two family-friendly activities related to the Spring 2013 exhibitions this Sunday! Sundays are always free at the Studio Museum, thanks to Target! 1pm: Gallery Tour: Houston Conwill: The Joyful Mysteries (1984–2034 A.D.) and Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family, 1967 Enjoy an interactive and informative tour of Houston Conwill: The Joyful Mysteries (1984-2034 A.D.) and Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 with a knowledgeable museum educator. RSVP here. 2pm: Hands On: Create a Time Capsule Take a look at The Joyful Mysteries, an installation of seven bronze time capsules created in 1984 by Houston Conwill (b. 1947) that contain confidential testaments by seven distinguished black Americans. Then, join us in the workshop to decorate your own time capsule that you can fill with things that are important to you. RSVP here. David Hartt: Stray Light was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where it was curated by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator. Support for this exhibition is generously provided by the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Family Foundation. The presentation at The Studio Museum in Harlem was organized by Thomas J. Lax, Assistant Curator.   Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 is supported by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, with additional support from the New York Council on the Humanities.  Images: Left: Gordon Parks, Untitled (Harlem, New York, 1967), 1967. Copyright and Courtesy The Gordon Parks Foundation / Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 (installation view). Photo: Adam Reich   Right: William Pope.L,Green People are Hope Without Reason, 2004. Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Barbara Karp Shuster, New York  05.4.1 / Ugo Rondinone, Wish You Were Here, 2013. Courtesy the artist / Ibrahim El-Salahi, Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams, 1961–5. Copyright Ibrahim El-Salahi and Courtesy Tate / Alex Da Corte, Crossover Cameo, 2013. From Harlem Postcards Spring 2013. Courtesy the artist. Summer 2013 exhibitions and projects  Opening July 18, 2013 Robert Pruitt: Women   Things in Themselves: Artists in Residence 2012-13   Body Language   No Filter: Expanding the Walls 2013   Harlem Postcards Summer 2013: Corin Hewitt, Lisa Oppenheim, Justine Reyes, Paulette Henk     VideoStudio: Long Takes Things we love this week DKBWAVE Training & Consulting workshops Ellen Gallagher: Don't Axe Me at the New Museum Agnes Gund's "Creativity Every Single Day" post for the Huffington Post Narcissister's upcoming performance at the opening party for Dirty Looks: On Location 2013  Performances by Kemang Wa Lehulere at the New Museum Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist at Tate Modern This year, The Studio Museum in Harlem is a Blue Star Museum, offering complimentary admission to active duty military personnel (including National Guard and Reserve) and up to five family members now through Labor Day, September 2, 2013.  Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America.  To find out which other institutions are participating in this initiative, click here. Upcoming at the Studio Museum Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11am: Lil'Studio! Postcard Mobiles How do you capture a community on a card? The Harlem Postcards project, now in its 10th year, commissions artists to photograph Harlem, and turns their unique depictions of the neighborhood into free, limited-edition postcards. Participants will choose from a wide selection of Harlem Postcards to create a sculptural mobile. RSVP here. Copyright © 2013 The Studio Museum in Harlem, All rights reserved. You've expressed an interest in The Studio Museum in Harlem. Our mailing address is: The Studio Museum in Harlem 144 West 125th Street New York, NY 10027 Add us to your address book