Photojournalist Jeff Antebi
Earlier this year, Jeff Antebi announced a hiatus from his very successful music career (as founder and creative director of Waxploitation Records, Abtebi managed Gnarls Barkley, Danger Mouse, and other left-field successes) to pursue his passion for photojournalism abroad. He is particularly interested in electoral politics in developing nations, and his website documents his…
Hipsters Versus Teabaggers
If you like this, perhaps you’ll be amused by this collection of protestors photographed at Saturday’s Tea Party-march in Washington, D.C. via Gawker
Interview: Young People First’s Zach Kolodin
Struck by how much lip service was being paid to young voters, yet how little real inclusion in the political process they were offered, Young People First (YPF) executive director Zach Kolodin and co-founder Lauren Smith launched YPF last summer as a way to mobilize the demographic to achieve long-term goals in the areas of…
How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall? Follow The Nitrous
Nitrous Oxide dealers did swift business outside Carnegie Hall when Trey Anastasio of Phish performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Sept. 12th.
New York City Mayor Floats Election Reforms
Election Reform is nothing new. The State of New York ratified the U.S. Constitution in 1788 and fewer than 40 years later altered the Property Qualification statute to extend voting rights to all white males regardless of whether they owned or rented property. A few years later, the office of Mayor became an elected position…
Canada Pot Nazis: ‘No Wheelchair For You!’
Whenever I think the human race just couldn’t get any dumber when it comes to dealing with marijuana, I’m proven wrong. And this time it’s in Canada. Who would have thought, eh? In an act of utter stupidity and ignorance, a Canadian care center punished resident Nyle Nagy for legally using medical marijuana. Why? The…
Your Tax Dollars At Work 1: New Hubble Photos
This image of the Omega Centauri star cluster, just a few thousand short light years away, is one of a bunch of amazing new images captured by NASA’s refurbished Hubble Space Telescope. When I stumbled across it, I couldn’t help but be reminded of another equally recent and joyfully spacey image. …
What The Heckle?
It wasn’t quite as dramatic as hurling a shoe. But Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) is already suffering from his ill-advised outburst during Barack Obama’s speech on health-care reform last night. GOP leadership made him apologize to the President, who accepted it. And Rob Miller, Wilson’s potential opponent in the 2010 election for his congressional seat,…
Meet The Plastic People Of The Universe
Inspired by Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground, Czechoslovakia’s Plastic People of the Universe played a pivotal role in the 1989 “velvet revolution” that replaced the dictatorial general secretary of the Czech Communist party, Gustav Husak, with the country’s first elected president, playwright Vaclav Havel. When the band was arrested in July 1976, Havel’s petition…
R.E.M., MoveOn.org’s ‘We Can’t Afford To Wait’ Video
MoveOn.org asked members to “share photos showing how they and their loved ones are suffering under our broken health care system.” R.E.M. provided the music.