MTV’s ‘Washington Heights’ – The Weekly Breakdown: Episode 9
BY Sara Martinez (@Saritology) This week MTV moved Washington Heights to it’s new Latino time at 11pm. This could be for a few, business related, reasons. But I prefer to believe that it’s because that tall, dark, and handsome papi chulo, Rico, looks even better later in the night. If that’s the case, next week’s [...]
MTV’s ‘Washington Heights’ – The Weekly Breakdown: Episodes 7 & 8
BY Sara Martinez (@Saritology) Sorry about last week guys. My dog ate my post. My computer got a virus from all those porno sites someone else visits on my computer. I was called on a secret mission by our President, Jason Bourne style. I got a cramp in my typing finger. I overslept. I was [...]
Picture of the Week
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Picture of the Week
Photography by Emil Baez (@_EBaez) Related: The Audubon Listening Party – The Recap Hurricane Sandy: An Uptown Perspective Uptown Artist – Emil Baez The UC 2-Year Anniversary Bash @ Negro Claro – The Recap We invite you to subscribe to the Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, or e-mail us [...]
Giant Washington Heights Snowman Defies Warmer Weather | DNAinfo
By Nigel Chiwaya, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — This Frosty is thriving in the middle of a thaw-out. A giant snowman that was built after winter storm Nemo dropped nearly a foot of snow in New York City remains perched on a Washington Heights street corner, defying the week’s warmer temperatures. The snowman at 169th [...]
UC Exclusive: MTV’s Washington Heights – Sneak Peak of Reyna’s Debut Performance
‘Washington Heights’ episode 7 airs on Wednesday, February 13 at 10/9c. Check out: http://mtv.com/shows/washington_heights/ Related: MTV’s ‘Washington Heights’ – The Weekly Breakdown: Episode 5 MTV’s ‘Washington Heights’ – The Weekly Breakdown: Episode 4 MTV’s ‘Washington Heights’ – The Weekly Breakdown: Episode 3 MTV’s ‘Washington Heights’ – The Weekly Breakdown: Episodes 1 & 2 We invite [...]
Bringing Cocktail Culture Uptown: A Q&A With J. Adoniisz
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Q. What is the difference between bar-tending and mixology? A. I’ve always said that a bartender to a mixologist is what a cook is to a chef. A bartender should be well versed on the classic cocktails, speedy, efficient and be knowledgeable about liquors and spirits. A mixologist, on the other [...]
MTV’s ‘Washington Heights’ – The Weekly Breakdown: Episode 6
BY Sara Martinez (@Saritology) Last week Reyna moved in with Manny, both moms are happy about it. I bet Reyna’s mom is happy because she can finally watch her telenovelas without disruptions, and Manny’s mom is happy because he’ll have someone else to cook for him. Frankie calls Ludwin out on his shit when it [...]
Free Volleyball Training Class Turns Uptown Kids into All Stars | DNAinfo
By Nigel Chiwaya, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Spoils of drug busts are being turned into seeds for peace. “Saturday Night Lights,” a free volleyball training session organized by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office for children ages 12-18 in Washington Heights and Inwood, is using confiscated drug money to fund the program, DA Cyrus Vance [...]
Call For Artists: NoMAA/MoMA Multi-Disciplinary Art Project
The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), in partnership with MoMA’s Community Program, would like to invite our artists to participate in the development of an exciting and unique multidisciplinary art project created by you and other fellow artists. The fruits of the project will be exhibited during the Uptown Arts Stroll this summer. All interested [...]
Raul Esparza Talks Law & Order: SVU, Hannibal, Trouble in the Heights | Reel Life With Jane
by Melanie Votaw Four-time Tony Award-nominee Raul Esparza is one of Broadway’s brightest stars and my personal favorite Broadway actor. Lately, though, he is also gracing both movie and television screens. We chatted on the phone at length in what became one of the most fun and relaxed interviews I’ve ever had. We spoke, for [...]
How we grieve
BY Vanessa Martir (@La_Loba_Lives) I haven’t been able to write since finding out my boy, Will Alicea, died two days ago. Well, no, that’s not entirely true. When I found out, I was sitting in the library in Brooklyn, the same library I went to as a kid, where I learned to love books and [...]
Trouble In The Heights @ The United Palace – The Recap
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Photography by Emil Baez (@_EBaez) On a wickedly frigid night last week, Thursday, January 24th to be exact, Trouble In The Heights, the United Palace and Washington Heights made history. Trouble In The Heights became the first movie in over 40 years to be shown on the silver screen of the United [...]
Trouble In The Heights – The Review
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The film begins, as all movies should, with the looming George Washington Bridge as a backdrop. Javy, masterfully played by the young, 13-year-old phenomenon Antonio Ortiz, comes across a bag full of illicit cash that belongs to the neighborhood bad guy, Nevada (perfectly portrayed by Broadway veteran Raúl Esparza). That fateful [...]
Uptown Video: WHIN Timelapse
Video by Productive Ray (@ProductiveRay09) Related: #WHIN By Any Means 2.5 – A First Look WHIN By Any Means 2 @ Empire Fash – The Recap We invite you to subscribe to the Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, or e-mail us at UptownCollective@gmail.com
I Remember Will TeeZ | Manhattan Times
Written by Sherry Mazzocchi William Alicea—better known to most of Upper Manhattan as Will TeeZ died this past Wed., Jan. 16th. Alicea was widely known and loved. Still, despite his being a long-time Washington Heights resident, I’d never met him. I only became aware of him after seeing Facebook posts about his illness. I watched [...]
Popular Inwood Artist Will Teez Dies of Leukemia | DNAinfo
By Carla Zanoni, DNAinfo Social Media Editor INWOOD — Will Alicea, a popular and respected Inwood artist, has died. Alicea, best known as Will Teez for his line of neighborhood-centric clothing, died Wednesday in his Park Terrace East apartment after meeting with a group of family and friends, according to a friend. He recently had [...]
MTV’s ‘Washington Heights’ – The Review
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Before we get into what MTV’s latest reality series Washington Heights is, let’s get into what it is not. It is NOT the Jersey Shore. There are no Latino versions of Snooki, The Situation and JWoww here. Secondly, these are NOT actors; these are real people trying to make a dollar [...]
Behind The Scenes: Urban Latino X Rayniel Rufino Photoshoot @ La Marina
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The stars must be in alignment for Uptown. On January 1st Word Up Books made its 60K pledge goal on indiegogo. Check! This coming Wednesday, January 9th at 10 pm EST (to be exact), MTV’s newest show Washington Heights will put our neighborhood on the lips, minds and televisions of people [...]
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