For almost half a decade now, First Avenue’s Get Cryphy has been the monthly destination for local fans of rap, getting stupid, and/or shaking their things. The dance night celebrates its four-year anniversary on Friday, February 24.
Get to know the Get Cryphy DJs (Plain Ole Bill, Jimmy2Times, Fundo, and Last Word) here.
I e-mail interviewed the Get Cryphy guys! Who’s going tomorrow night??
Raighne Hogan of 2D Cloud is fighting Minnesota’s proposed ban on gay marriage in the way he knows best: with an anthology of comics about equality. This week’s Pumped Up Kicks invites you to give him money on Kickstarter.
This week’s best local Kickstarter (in my opinion, for MPLS.TV) looks like a genuinely great collection of comics! I’d donate just to get a copy of the finished product.
(Source: plays-with-squirrels, via michelle-said)
My new job
- Me: Yeah, I ended up taking a full-time position at an insurance company in Eden Prairie.
- Most of my friends: That's nothing to be ashamed of! A job is a job. It's always good to be making money. You can still do journalism on the side. Everyone has to start somewhere. At least you're using your proofreading skills.
- Kris: Looks like you're getting a lot out of your COMPARATIVE LITERATURE degree! Ahahahahahahahahahaha
Parents’ guide to late ’90s pop music.
(from Entertainment Weekly, 1999)
“Girl talk”
Britney Spears’ Sex/Violence Quotient: None? Tell that to everyone watching the “…Baby One More Time” video in 1998. Or in 2012. Also, fuck you, EW, for Jay-Z’s “typical lyric.”
This reminded me of when I asked my parents to buy me the Backstreet Boys’ first album, one of the first secular CDs I owned, even after we listened to a song and my mom balked at the line “Are you sexual?”
“Moooomm, they all thank God in the CD booklet. They’re good people!”
and to some females too, though mostly it’s been men:
when you feel mad at Rihanna for collaborating with Chris Brown,
incredulous that a victim could return to her abuser, just like that,
shocked that she couldn’t be BETTER than that, and STRONGER,
and outraged that one young woman couldn’t be everything you wanted her to be,
I would refer you here, because you have some reading to do.
And, remember also
that when you get mad at Rihanna for going back
and you say so around women
chances are better than you think that at least one of them is hearing:
“You, too, are a coward.”
In an all new All This Is Ours, we meet Roger, an octogenarian who takes Sarah Brumble behind the scenes of Bryant Lake Bowl. Photos by Ben Lafond.
A new Street Stories! Josef Buchel tells us an epic tale of friendly competition gone wrong on Franklin Avenue.
Directed by Erika Ochoa and Joanna Solotaroff
Finally watched the new Street Stories! I don’t have anything to do with making this series, but I’m so proud to work for the website that produces it.
