Events

Memphis in Brooklyn: La’ Chat in Concert

HAM collective presents:
LA CHAT LA CHAT LA CHAT LA CHAT
LA CHAT LA CHAT LA CHAT LA CHAT

LEGENDARY MEMPHIS RAPPER LA CHAT!!!!!
(DIME A DOZEN/FORMERLY OF HYPNOTIZE MINDZ) FULL CONCERT PERFORMANCE

GOLD RECORD RECORDING ARTIST AND RECIPIENT OF KNOCKDOWN-SCM’S AWARD FOR FEMALE RAP ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2010

BEST RAPPER IN THE GAME

PLUS PLUS PLUS!!!!
MEGA-Performance by: !!! HOUSE OF LADOSHA !!!

PLUS…..!!!!!!!!

CHICAGO JUKE LEGENDS: DJ RASHAD + TRAXMAN
LIT CITY CEO: AZIZAMAN

NYC/ATL: KEI – OPENS DOORS
H.A.M. RESIDENTS: HATE MOSS & LENGA NEVAEAH

ALL NIGHT LONG!!!!!!!

DOORS @ 11 FOR REAL//$7.00 BEFORE 12//$10 AFTER MIDNIGHT

DRINK SPECIALS ALL NIGHT

HOSTED BY: H.A.M. // CONTESSA STUTO (CUNT MAFIA)// NEON LADOSHA//JULIANA//HUXTABLE LADOSHA//CHAYDHA & STEPH WATTS//++4EVA

PLUS HAPPY BIRTHDAY HELEN HARRIS……………..

houston//atlanta//memphis//miami//dallas//huntsville//neworleans//swag//screw//bounce//crunk//snap//trap//bass//memphis bump//chitown juke//memphis juke//

WWWorld Click | After Affects

Good morning and wwwelcome to the first installment of WWWorld Click, where I’ll report on the vagaries of online behavior, bravely click through links of spurious interest, and act as internet interlocutor in the meta-minstrelsy of logged-on linguistics. First up, for those of us—and we are legion—who can muster neither the effort to visit much-talked-about exhibitions nor the guilt for having missed them, a poem by esteemed writer and Rhizome staffer Brian Droitcour: And here,… [read more »]

In an economy that’s globalizing faster than you can say 是, everyone’s flailing to find a common linguistic ground on which to exchange ideas and goods without the crucial information being lost in translation or in pronunciation. One YouTube user has set out to compile a primer on How to Pronounce some key phrases in American English. Here are our favorites—words that speak volumes about America in the twilight of the English-as-lingua-franca(confusing Italian reference to… [read more »]

DIS/dump

DIS/dump was a week-long collaboration between DIS Magazine, dump.fm, and you. During the week of August 8–14, users participated in an image-enabled visual conversation, dumping the latest in image/fashion/art/lifestyle/branding/whatever. By hotlinking images, uploading from their hard drives, or using their webcams, DIS/dump users visualized funny, beautiful, and profound combinations of ideas, expressing NEW STYLE OPTIONS in real time. The images below, rather than a “best of,” represent several waves of topics that arose during the… [read more »]

Tomorrow night, Club Infinity returns for a special release party for beloved NYC producer and DJ Kingdom‘s new That Mystic EP (we’ve heard it, and it’s incredible), out on Night Slugs on Monday, July 26th. Joining Kingdom are Brooklyn’s Dre Skull and Nadastrom’s Dave Nada with what’s certain to be a bangin’ Moombahton set. It kind of has to be; he literally invented the genre. And if that’s not enough to get you out, trust… [read more »]

Not sure why Europe has its culottes in a twist over burqas. Julie Andrews is covering up completely—sealed in, even—and she looks like the opposite of oppressed. Nevermind those Cole Porter lyrics! Could sexy Snuggies be a future DIS winter trend? Julie’s got our “faux modesty” trend down pat.

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