[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/24394476 w=580&h=324] The new music video for “Drip Dry” by the Johannesburg hipsters Dirty Paraffin. The

The trailer for the feature film “Short Cut” (to be directed by Norman Maake) about the

Someone started a a page called fuckyesafricans in the vein of the “fuckyes” tumblr meme. For

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHxFJgqicZw&w=560&h=349] Charlie Ahearn’s new documentary of Brooklyn photographer Jamal Shabazz screening on June 26 at the

I don’t know much about South African musician Fifi the Rai Blaster but I like this

I recently missed out on seeing a special screening (at BAM in Brooklyn) of “Restless City,”

Georgr Steinmetz’s Africa. Watch it here. More on Steinmetz here.

Riveting piece of journalism in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine as well as an accompanying

Vanity Fair’s June issue has a profile. of Hillary Clinton. It contains tons of information about

Mayer Hawthorne featuring guitarist Dennis Coffey.

I reread that infamous 2010 New Yorker profile. of Gil Scott Heron earlier today. I was

One of the highlights of a recent trip to Istanbul–dominated by run-ins with operatives of a