� Hey kids, have a great weekend! Don’t do anything we wouldn’t do! Also, enjoy these fine examples of 1980’s dance music by Shalamar, Nu Shooz and Five Star. � � http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Yx0X-eHn8 � http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVAm_obRPQ8 � http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQVeXzMBvQk

From Machine Project: Echo Park Medicinal Forage with Nance Klehm Wednesday, Dec 9th, 2009 7-8:30pm Cost: $15/person An after dark exploration of the sidewalk cracks around Machine Project for local medicinal plants, led by Nance Klehm. Get ready for the long winter dry, cold haul with simple...

Fleet Foxes have holed themselves away in Seattle to drum up material for a second album, which the band promises to release sometime next year. “I listened to the first record again, and I was kind of nonplussed,” says frontman Robin Peckfold. “There are definitely super-upbeat songs that are...

“I’m staying because it’s the right thing to do,” she said hoarsely. “Because Jules and I made a commitment and because I want to wake up to something isn’t a fucking horror show of constant defeat.” She blew into her hands and squinted at me. “I don’t know what to do,” I said. [...]

from : http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/dubai-skips/ http://gizmodo.com/5413109/the-burj-dubai-just-cant-stop-getting-struck-by-lightning Dubai Requests Jubilee http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703499404574557453620655942.html Dubai World Seeks Debt Standstill “This...

This week we’ve got no time for snappy intros, no time to come up with any witty banter or half-serious boasts. There’s really not a moment to spare, such is our determination to get the piping hot jams right into your grubby little mitts. So we won’t talk about girl group-jacking weirdos we found...

DECEMBER 4 — HERBERT READ Distinguished British anarchist art critic. DECEMBER 4, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS Nuremberg, Germany: KRIS KRINGLES’ FAIR. ALSO ON DECEMBER 4 IN HISTORY… 1122 — Poet of wine, women and song Omar Khayyam dies. 1866 — Painter Wassily Kandinsky born, Moscow, Russia. 1875 —...

We covered 2007 in a similar way before -- way back in 2007 -- but not to this extent. Some of these lists from our editorial staff go up to 20 rather than 10, so there is more Radiohead, Panda Bear, White Stripes, UGK, and probably M.I.A. (There is the exact same amount of Amerie, Frank Zappa, and...

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