The Faces of WHIN IV

Okay folks – WHIN IV goes down at our home base of Negro Claro (3805 10th Ave) on Thursday, May23rd. Doors open at 9 and the show starts at 10 pm but please get there early to make sure you are in the building. Even better, guarantee yourself a spot by purchasing your ticket from Eventbrite and save yourself a few bucks in the process. WHIN IV is going to be memorable as we have a host of new artists to grace the stage that night. You already know the motto, “spread love it’s the Uptown way!”.

Purchase tickets: http://whin4atnegroclaro.eventbrite.com/

The Faces of WHIN IV
The Faces of WHIN IV

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The Uptown Tweet of the Week

Presenting the Uptown Tweet of the Week, our pick that represents the good, the bad, and the lovely in this week’s UC Twitterverse…

New B&W photograph: Love - Washington Heights - NYC - 2013. #Wahi #photography #streettogs #NYC http://t.co/fNv8FQioK5
@PaulLomaxPhoto
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Paul Lomax - Washington Heights

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The Best of the Boogie Down: Artist Spotlight – Ohene Cornelius

Ohene Cornelius – A movement and a force all on his own

BY Jenni Ruiza (@RuizaJenni)

The Boogie Down is known for revolutionary artists in Hip-Hop – but think about the most recent artists who’ve come from the Bronx and changed the face of music: Fat Joe, Swizz Beatz, Slick Rick, KRS One, Mary J. Blige. It’s not until recently has the borough started to pick back up again with its birthing of unique artists the way it used to. Ohene Cornelius, a movement and force, proves that nontraditional style and a strong building of one’s brand is all you need to get a little attention. With his signature experimental sounds and work [also an actor and writer], Cornelius is working on the debut of his album, “American Idle”, due June 6th.

Q. What part of the Bronx are you from?

A. I was born in Harlem, but grew up for a large amount of my time on Cypress Ave.

Q. When did you first realize you were meant to be an artist?

A. Meant to be an artist is a loaded statement. I am an artist. I don’t know if I was meant to be one. That gets into issues of destiny and fate, and for me, each person has, on a basic level, control over their destiny. I’ve made an active choice as an adult to stay in the arts, through the thick and thin.

I want my purpose in life to be an adjunct result of my commitment to the arts community at large. Some people have an amazing talent to do things and don’t pursue it. Were they any less meant to be an artist than me, no, but I am an artist because I choose to live through my creative work.

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Uptown Video: I am Ivan (most of the time)

Video by Arlene Schulman (@ArleneSchulman)

Meet 27 year old Ivan Perez, a guidance counselor by day and a drag queen by night. I am Ivan (most of the time) is a shorter version of a work in progress. The longer version expects to include Ivan in performance at Mamajuana Dyckman on Monday, June 3, 20132 as well as a candid look at growing up and living in Washington Heights.

Check out: http://arlenesscratchpaper.com/

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In Washington Heights, 4 Mayoral Candidates Woo Hispanics | NY Times

By KATE TAYLOR

Juan Rodriguez Way - Washington Heights

Mayoral candidates attended a ceremony on Wednesday in Washington Heights to name a portion of Broadway after a Dominican man who is believed to be the first non-Indian New Yorker. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad | The NY Times)

Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, ventured a few sentences of Spanish. Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, called on Congress to pass immigration legislation. William C. Thompson Jr., a former comptroller, reminded the audience that his grandparents immigrated from the Caribbean. Adolfo Carrión Jr., a former Bronx borough president, simply urged Hispanics to vote.

In a sign of the critical role Hispanic voters are expected to play in the mayoral race this year, four candidates for the office went to the Washington Heights section of Manhattan on Wednesday to attend a ceremony to name a section of Broadway after a Dominican man who is thought to have been New York’s first non-Indian settler.

In 1613, 12 years before the Dutch founded New Amsterdam, Juan Rodriguez is believed to have arrived in what is now New York City, according to a report published last year by the Dominican Studies Institute at City College of the City University of New York. A free black man, he sailed from San Domingo, now Santo Domingo, with a Dutch sea captain, then remained here, most likely mastering the Indian language and setting up a trading post.

Prompted by the report’s publication, the City Council last year passed legislation to honor him with a section of Broadway, from 159th Street in Washington Heights to 218th Street in Inwood. (The renaming legislation was sponsored by another Rodriguez, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, apparently no relation.)

Read more: In Washington Heights, 4 Mayoral Candidates Woo Hispanics – NYTimes.com.

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New Music: Eckz – Memoirs of the Meek & Famous Mixtape

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