All Beef, No Chicken, Columns Random Ecuadorian family clings to safety behind the locked doors of a church. Armed with cameras and boom microphones is a platoon of broadcast news personnel that exhibit the tawdriness of Anna Nicole Smith or Flava Flav, circling the church…
All Beef, No Chicken, Columns While in my second, second year of post-education, I visited a grimy drinking hole in downtown Winnipeg, where 15-year-old aboriginal girls pass as women while 27-year-old men feed them Budweiser until their better judgement and panties fly out the window…
All Beef, No Chicken, Columns In November, CNBC ran a think-piece with Morgan Stanley economist Stephen Roach. He said, “I think we are coming to a critical point in the global business cycle, where an unbalanced world needs to get rebalanced and I think the…
All Beef, No Chicken, Columns In Lebanon, two 18-year-old men are running from the law after pulling a 16-year-old from his bicycle, beating him and forcing the sneakers off his feet. The assault ends with threats against the teen-victim’s family. Word. In Lebanon, minefields are…
All Beef, No Chicken, Columns One week ago, a producer-type friend from Philadelphia forwards a job posting to me for a rag in New York; 401K plan, dental, health and a negotiable salary. The position is music editor, with duties including contacting publicists, obtaining interviews,…
All Beef, No Chicken, Columns With the bitterness of a single 30-something woman on Valentine’s Day, I loathe October 31 for its insignificance on my calendar, and more importantly, the distractions it places on my everyday routines. This Halloween, however, a relic revived from hip…
All Beef, No Chicken, Columns Apparently a memo was sent to North American DJs that declares hyphy mashups as the new crunk, or even, the new snap rap. Regardless of any internal communication, the message is clear: white people love trendy rap.
Caucasians loved black music before Charlie Parker played
All Beef, No Chicken, Columns Shoveling heaps of greasy fast food is silently killing North Americans by making skinny people fat and fat people obese. And frankly, it’s disgusting.
Wealthy rappers with riders demanding mounds of soul food while on tour should be bitch-slapped by Tony Little. Having the means to improve their health, but not having the common sense to act on it, is like rejecting an HIV test after being shanked by a syringe. Fitness trainers
