Photo Source: UK Telegraph

Opps, it looks like Sarah Palin is still making waves in the media. This woman, deemed the “renegade” and charismatic personality of the Republican party has not gone away. After announcing her resignation as the Governor of Alaska, Palin is receiving full frontal media coverage (yet again) today.  This time around, she writes an op-ed for the Washington Post, in an attempt to attack Obama’s “tax and cap” plan. →

Los Angeles based contemporary fashion brand, Hellz has released a film teaser for their upcoming Summer delivery of graphic tops. Stay tuned in a few days for the full film to debut.

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Kick off the Summer with Latin American Psych & Freakbeat!
Verdugo Bar – Glassell Park, CA
7/14/09
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Come check out Mas Exitos tonight at the Verdugo Bar featuring the usual suspects, GANAS, LENGUA, ENORBITO, HOSEH and of course CHICO SONIDO.  Take a safari trip south of the border and experience the sweat and pulse of the subtropic psychedelia and otherworldly beats. →

Catching the train the other night was insanely intense.  After a languorous day of walking along the Dutch canals, we had some Thai food, drank Chimay with a puff of hash.  Along the way we stared at some purplish veined, aging prostitutes in the windows and then finally made our way into Amsterdam’s Central Station.  →

There is so much design talent in the world it feels as though I’d never be able to see it all in just one lifetime. It isn’t only coming from the expected outposts either. So many of these up and coming design sectors are really starting to blow the lid off the established fashion circuit and I, for one, couldn’t be happier. I love seeing creativity from different places and how varying cultures interpret the idea of fashion as a whole. Everyone sees the world from different viewpoints →

It Came from Brooklyn
The Guggenheim Museum – New York, NY
8/14/09
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On August 14, the Guggenheim Museum launches It Came from Brooklyn, a new monthly concert series that will showcase Brooklyn’s emerging and established talents in the fields of music and literature as part of the museum’s 50th Anniversary celebrations. Conceived as a tribute to the recent Brooklyn renaissance and to serve the visual art scene’s appetite for interdisciplinary creative exchanges, each program will feature two live bands and readings by Brooklyn-based writers from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. →

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Onra – Summer Joints (Podcast)

The current Wanderlust issue features an interview with Parisian DJ and vinyl junkie Onra about his travels through Vietnam and his 32-track compilation Chinoiseries. Since then, Onra has kept busy with another LP, 1.0.8, this time focusing on electro-soul and synth sounds. He recently sent us a podcast called “Summer Joints,” a lazy summer compilation put together from his vinyl collection. This month, Onra will set out for a tour of China, with stops in Beijing and Shanghai, and end the summer at the Nowa Muzyka Festival in Poland.

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INSA and Nike Sportswear
1948, Arches 477 – 478, Batemans Row, Shoreditch, London, EC2 3HH 
07/17-07/26

Protein presents a major new installation and exhibition by INSA, in association with IAM1 & Nike Sportswear. ”It started with Charlie Dark and the Run Dem Crew and got me thinking of how I see London and running. And I’m not really much of a runner, but I thought maybe my artwork would travel around the city. My art would do the running for me,” smiles INSA.

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A Glacial Pace Recordings Showcase
The Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR
9/20/09
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MusicfestNW presents a showcase of talent from Glacial Pace Recordings, with performances by up-and-coming artists Love as Laughter, Mimicking Birds and Morning Teleportation. Modest Mouse front man Isaac Brock founded the Glacial Pace label in 2005 and went on to sign bands Mimicking Birds and Love as Laughter and Minnesota songwriter Mason Jennings. Brock and the rest of Modest Mouse will headline the showcase on September 20 at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland. →

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With Sage Francis at the helm of the Strange famous brand, it comes as no surprise that the label’s artists-showcased in this exclusive mix-deliver a similar style of hip-hop-sharp, gritty, and unabashedly to-the-point when it comes to lyrical content. DJ Pickster One compiled the tracks for the Strange Famous Megamix 2009, →