This Wednesday Washington Heights based artist M.Tony Peralta launched A Black Season Affair, his latest project, to a packed house at Apt178 Lounge, selling out limited edition tees, posters, snapback caps and other items. Friends, well-wishers and supporters of Peralta sipped on cocktails flavored with Hennessy as a DJ spun, and while a looped video of his collaboration with Feed The Rats occupied a wall. You missed out! Photos below.
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M.Tony Peralta, the 30 something Dominican Andy Warhol of Washington Heights (you should see his silkscreen game) is back on our radar with a new project and event just in time for the holidays: a one night only show titled Black Season Affair at Apt 178 Lounge, one of the livest spots in NYC.
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Back in August we teased you about Brooklyn bad ass, artist, historian, writer, designer, publisher and Bill O’Reilly defeater, Ricardo Cortés‘ new book, The Secret History of Coffee, Coke & Cola.Cortés, best known for his marijuana children’s book, It’s Just A Plant, and for illustrating last years rabidly popular Go The Fuck To Sleep, sent us a note via e-mail today announcing the book’s launch!
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Handsome Yankees second base player Robinson Cano is now a US citizen! The Dominican Republic born baseball player, 30, was sworn in yesterday after recently re-upping with the Yankees, signing a one year $15 million contract.
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Orlando Cruz, the Puerto Rican boxer who came out the closet last month, sat for an interview with German publication Der Spiegel, published yesterday. Since coming out, Cruz, who said he discovered he was gay at the age of 19 after competing in the 2000 Sidney Olympics, and who is also the only out gay boxer in pro sports, has received mostly positive support in the sport and beyond. Excerpt of the interview below.
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Puerto Rican featherweight champion Orlando Cruz has outed himself as a proud gay man, reports USA Today today. Cruz said he was proud to be Puerto Rican and proud to be gay.
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Puerto Rican model Joan Smalls was named Numero Uno in the world of fashion last week by Models.com, beating out Jourdan Dunk, Anais Mali and scores of other women of color. In fact, Smalls was the only black model on the Top 50 list.
Victor Cruz, photographed by Ben Watts, is the hottest footballer in this month’s GQ. Cruz is so hot and good looking, he should have had the cover.
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As followers of prolific Latina and graffiti dynamo Toofly through social media, we got a taste of the globetrotting and NYC based artist’s newest print offering, “Love Warrior,” after Toofly posted teaser photos last week on Instagram. Read the rest of this entry »
Tony M. Peralta, the Dominican Andy Warhol from Washington Heights, dropped dime a few weeks ago in the form of a look book for his latest collection for Summer 2012: Defend Uptown League, a collection of graphic tees of four fictitious teams that touch base on the artist’s favorite uptown haunts including Washington Heights, East Harlem and Inwood.
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Summer is raging in NYC but it feels like Christmas in July! Why? Cuz of the Nutcracker, of course. For the unitiated, the Nutcracker is the new crack, the new moonshine and the new viagra if you believe its hawkers and imbibers. Read the rest of this entry »
“Papo & Yo,” a new, Latino themed video game scheduled for publishing by Sony sometime this year, is something different altogether from the gang-bangers and cartel games featuring Latinos. As far as we can tell, there are no stereotypes. Read the rest of this entry »
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