Edible Brooklyn presents "the Great Pinch Tail, Suck Head Event" at Brooklyn Brewery on May 23rd, a night of beer drinking and crawfish peeling! Crawfish will be provided by Nick Suarez and Theo Peck of the Food Experiments -- with potatoes, corn, sausage and mushrooms added to the pot. ...
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Franchesca Ramsey Shows the Down Side of YOLO Clutch Magazine http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GOahvC_uMG0 "Comedian Franchesca Ramsey, creative mind behind Shit White Girls Say…to Black Girls, decided to take on the down side of the phrase YOLO." Lol, #YOYO! ...
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"I know I sound ridiculous saying this, but Smith is totally hot. Rape is supposed to be traumatizing, but I don't see how screwing someone who looks like a hot US Marine, wait, IS a hot US marine can be so bad." Celebrity blogger Wendy Cheng, better known as Xiaxue, is described as the Pari ...
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Actress Paula Patton is UPTOWN Magazine's gorgeous cover girl for its April/May 2012 Travel Issue. Photographed by Ruven Afanador, the Jumping The Broom star opens up about her fear of monotony, rumors about her personal life, her inevitable life in film, having grown up across the street fro ...
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We haven't collected these in a while but here are some of the most interesting links to articles, news and videos that we've spotted this week. IKEA Does Banksy-Style Graffiti On Its Own Ads Along Milan Subway DesignTaxi In line with Milan Design Week, IKEA has gone on a tagging craze, pasti ...
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With a shoe addiction starting at a very early age, I've naturally been on a search for Dorothy's famous ruby slippers from Wizard of Oz since childhood. What I've found over the years just didn't quite cut it until I bumped into the Bordello by Pleaser Teeze 10 Glitter Platform Pump in red, ...
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As I recently watched a social justice campaign get criticized, partially for encouraging what some call "Facebook Activism," it has left me puzzled. Maybe these critics have never seen how effective just getting people to share your message can be or how difficult it is for many. Perhaps I "g ...
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1 million hoodies, 1 million signatures on Change.org... Show the world we are all Trayvon. As the Change.org petition continues to gain signatures, George Zimmerman, the murderer of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, is still not yet arrested. Zimmerman—judge, jury, and executioner—attacked ...
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This is Part 1 of a series of ranting concerning some of the most ridiculous things I've heard since the launch of Kong 2012. As millions of "little people" now feel the power of promoting what they think is a good cause, reasonably, others are skeptical of the random surge in popularity o ...
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With all the buzz, both positive and negative for Kony 2012—the global campaign supporting the arrest of war criminal Joseph Kony, it still has loyal supporters and they've been demanding this damn Policymaker's list! Geez... In addition to 20 celebrities, the campaign is targeting 12 p ...
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As momentum is growing around Kony 2012, the global campaign supporting the arrest of war criminal Joseph Kony, there is still a lot to be done. The campaign is targeting 20 culture icons who can use their influential voices to keep the deployed U.S. military advisors in Uganda until ...
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A year ago, Evita Robinson's Nomad•ness Travel Series was a reality show about one young Black woman exploring art, music, food, local pastimes, and causes around the world. It inspired us. It made us want to travel and some of us actually went through with it. The excursionist inspi ...
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Actor and socially/politically conscious emcee Mos Def, now using the stage name Yasiin Bey, recently dropped his own interpretation of Jay-Z and Kanye's infectiously popular "Niggas In Paris." While the original song boasts of things that its largest fan base can only imagine, Mos provides ...
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M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls," has been on my party playlist since the Sri Lankan-Brit dropped her Vicki Leekx mixtape last year — but it was merely a snippet. I've come dangerously close to getting a tattoo of the song's hook "Live fast. Die Young. Bad girls do it well," or perhaps just making ...
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Wesley Pentz aka Diplo, world-renowned DJ, producer and cultural influencer, has released his first literary project entitled 128 Beats Per Minute: Diplo's Visual Guide to Music, Culture, and Everything in Between. We'll now be able to journey alongside the genius whose credits include ...
Continue Reading![Our CEO Guest-stars on The Black Guy Who Tips, ep. 225: War of the Bryants [NSFW]](http://www.thecomplexmedia.com/blog/wp-content/themes/obscure/timthumb.php?src=http://www.thecomplexmedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Kobe-Bryant-Divorce.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1&a=tl "Our CEO Guest-stars on The Black Guy Who Tips, ep. 225: War of the Bryants [NSFW]")
Our CEO and editor Lanaé stopped by The Black Guy Who Tips with Rod and Karen this weekend for episode 225: War of the Bryants. She was joined by joined Michelle, the author of Knob Slobbing Feminism and the lovely hosts for about 2 hours of comic relief. After Lanaé screwed up h ...
Continue Reading![Tumblr Launches Scary Campaign Against Internet Censorship [Updated]](http://www.thecomplexmedia.com/blog/wp-content/themes/obscure/timthumb.php?src=http://www.thecomplexmedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Censored-Tumblr.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1&a=tl "Tumblr Launches Scary Campaign Against Internet Censorship [Updated]")
Anyone who logged onto Tumblr yesterday may have noticed that every single photo, tag and word was grayed out. If you panicked a little — that was the intent. Clicking on an image would usually enlarge it. Instead, people were redirected to a form that encouraged them to help "protect th ...
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Many of you have had the opportunity to get your hands on the November 7th leak of Take Care. For those of you who feel the album is worth supporting and hearing in full quality, please do so by purchasing at iTunes and Amazon. A few weeks ago, upon reading that Drake's Take Care would ...
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If you live in a U.S. metro city that uses underground transportation, you're familiar with appreciating something as simple as a train car with some air conditioning. Particularly in New York City, it's a relief to walk into a station without your face being engulfed in hot piss. The heat is ...
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It's been almost a year since one of our most controversial articles was published concerning scammy practices by national job board/resume service, JobFox. We still get emails, tweets and comments from people who have had the misfortune of dealing with the company. Although holding a glowing ...
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