Results tagged “southcentral”

In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed over fifty homes within the first 24 hours. National outlets may be covering the fires, but CNN also found it is easier to buy a gun than fruit and...

Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there. You can protest someone at his office, sure, but when the whistle blows at the end of the day can you follow him home? D.C. has sports fans, apparently, and elephants aren't really cut out for zoos. There's this trick where you can read information from...

Chicagoist loves the Museum of Science and Industry, what with the submarine and the coalmine and all, and now that the MSI is branching out, we’re down with that too. Tonight, the museum hosts a reception and screening of Russell Simmons’s American Truth Series presentation of , a documentary featuring stories from the hip-hop magazine of the same name (which stands for “Finally Every Dimension of the Streets”). New Def Filmmaker Kwame Amoaku examines pit-bull training and fighting, gets a who’s who of South Central and Compton’s Bloods and Crips, interviews a Harlem kingpin, and chronicles the rise of the “unofficial street bible” F.E.D.S. magazine. Reception at 6:30, screening at 8, followed by a Q&A with Amoaku.