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Weird 'Vehicular Break Dancing' History: Fan's View
It is called stunt driving, but what happens when regular people take to public streets and start to play music, dance, and do tricks with their cars? While other drag racing scenes, like L.A.’s street racing, may be more well known, this amateur sport that has developed over the past two decades is one that a fast car fan might appreciate.
20 years of sideshows in the Bay Area
Describing a sideshow is not exactly easy, but one reporter named Louis Sahagun refers to it as; “vehicular break dancing.” In particular, sideshows take place in parking lots or neighborhood streets and resembles a street party. According to an MSNBC report about the Bay Area, a sideshow cinematographer , historian, and “Mario Andretti” named Yap Zazaboi, the sideshow trend has been around for about 20 years in the Oakland, Calif., Bay Area.
Like a NASCAR or Formula 1 event, Zazaboi says that, at one time, “it was a place to take your kids.”
Police start a crackdown on Oakland sideshows
It may have had family-friendly beginnings, but the MSNBC video on Oakland Sideshows says police eventually became concerned about intoxicated people doing stunts in vehicles after bars closed (at 2 a.m.). Regardless, Zazaboi says that sideshows evolved because there is very little to do in Oakland and this was a positive way for the community to relieve some pressure.
Zazaboi also says that he thinks that the police crackdown on sideshows is counterproductive since this means older people are not showing up and stepping in to discipline dangerous drivers.
Are there still sideshows today?
Despite the negative response from the police, the sideshow is alive and well — but maybe not in Oakland. In particular, there are videos like, “Bringin Back the Sideshow Oakland to Los Angeles,” that show that amateur stunt driving continues (even if it is just doing donuts in a parking lot). Today, instead of videos about Oakland, you will see videos from Alameda, Compton, and Crenshaw, Calif.
It is obvious that the sideshow did not stop — but just moved further South.
Where to find sideshow culture
If you are not an active part of the communities or car clubs that text each other for sideshow locations, you may not have a chance to view this underground scene firsthand. Since there is no place to buy a sideshow ticket, you will have to accept watching videos like the rest of us outsiders.
Unfortunately, due to the explicit language, many videos have been omitted from this article. However, you can easily check out the wild stunts by searching YouTube for the terms hyphy, go dumb, sideshow, go stupid, and ghost riding the whip.
For a more concise history, consult the DVDs titled, “Sydewayz: Get Hyphy,” “Wildest Sideshows Uncensored,” and “Ghostride the Whip: The Hyphy Movement.”
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Article source: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/weird-vehicular-break-dancing-history-fans-view-121700992--f1.html
Manchester City Transfer News: Zlatan Ibrahimovic a Strange Target for City
What do you get Manchester City, the club that now has (almost) everything after claiming the English Premier League title? What do you get Roberto Mancini, a man who’s spent millions upon millions of Saudi oil money on attacking talent, from Mario Balotelli and Carlos Tevez to Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko?
Why, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, of course! Or, at least, that’s what the British tabloid rumor mill has drummed up so far.
According to Rob Beasley of The Sun, Mancini is keen to lure the Swede to the Etihad Stadium with the promise of silverware and gold, to the tune of £300,000 a week in wages. Such would make Ibra the highest-paid player in the Premiership, well ahead of even City star midfielder Yaya Toure, who garners £250,000 per week.
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Mancini was responsible for bringing Ibra to Inter Milan in 2006 and was sacked two years later amidst club president Massimo Moratti’s displeasure with the manager’s inability to get over the proverbial hump in the UEFA Champions League.
Which, ironically enough, would appear to be the slight against which Mancini is attempting to protect himself by allegedly moving for Ibra. His high-priced City squad failed to survive the group stage of the Champions League this season and was summarily dispatched from the Europa League by Sporting shortly thereafter.
Mancini knows full well the value and rigors of Champions League football as well as the need for depth and size that it precipitates. City have a cavernous well of world-class attacking players from which to draw, but not much height and strength (of any quality, anyway) among that group.
So, it makes sense, then, that rumors would have Mancini taking an interest in the 6’5″ Ibrahimovic.
But at what price?
Forget about Sheikh Mansour’s mountains of money. He can surely afford Ibra, a player of tremendous technical skill and creativity for his size. However, can Mancini afford to place so much trust, financially and otherwise, in a man of Ibra’s repute? Can City thrive with Zlatan sitting atop their pyramid of well-paid mercenaries?
And is there even a touch of hubris in potentially pursuing a player who’s worn out his welcome wherever he’s been to settle in on a club already saddled with volatile personalities (i.e. Balotelli and Tevez)?
Not to mention the backlog of strikers already on the payroll.
Surely, Zlatan, the egotist he seems to be, would relish the opportunity to conquer the EPL after pillaging the continent with Ajax, Barcelona and the powers of northern Italy.
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However, is it worth it for City, to risk spoiling something special by including a 30-year-old whose prodigious talents are exceeded only by his massive ego?
Perhaps. Football empires are built on bold maneuvers more so than safe ones.
They’re also often doomed by the former. Mancini, the manager who would appear to have it all, might have to reach further to find out, though doing so could come back to bite him in a big way.
Article source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1187069-manchester-city-transfer-news-zlatan-ibrahimovic-a-strange-target-for-city
Joke on Europe as Madagascar sequel comes to Cannes
CANNES, France (Reuters) – The joke is on Europe, and in particular France, with the third animated “Madagascar” adventure, which has its world premiere at the Cannes film festival on Friday bringing big names in comedy to the red carpet.
“Madagascar 3: Europe‘s Most Wanted”, from DreamWorks Animation, is the first installment in the franchise to be shot in 3D, and studio bosses will be hoping it can match the box office magic of its predecessors.
A slot at the Cannes film festival, where hundreds of news outlets descend each year, can be an ideal launchpad, particularly because the notoriously fussy critics tend to blunt their pencils for animated entertainment.
“This festival, it celebrates all types of film … Our film’s about travelling to Europe and what better place could we launch a film like that than in Cannes?” said Tom McGrath, one of three directors working on the movie.
“What we always aspired to do was to take you to a fantastic world, like everyone was transported when they saw Pinocchio,” he told a news conference after a press screening.
“That’s the great thing about CG (computer generated animation). First people aspired to do photo-realism, and now we’re trying to create these fantasy worlds.”
In Madagascar 3, the central characters of Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman leave Africa in search of their penguin friends who have flown to Europe to spend their gold and gems in the casino in Monte Carlo.
“Operation Penguin Extraction” goes predictably awry, and in the ensuing havoc the heroes join a travelling circus in their bid to get back to their beloved New York.
On the way, via Rome and London, European stereotypes are sent up, including France‘s reputation as a country where people work short hours and its cultural icon Edith Piaf, whose famous song “Non, je ne regrette rien” is gloriously parodied.
When Vitaly, a grumpy Russian tiger, disagrees with Alex, he counters “That’s Bolshevik!”, prompting an American penguin to add: “Never thought I’d say this … but the Russky’s right.”
Famous scenes from well-known action movies are also recreated, including the bus balancing on the edge of a cliff in “The Italian Job” and people dodging flying bullets, or in this case bananas, in “The Matrix”.
The main villain in Madagascar 3 is deranged French animal control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois, voiced by Frances McDormand.
Part Cruella De Vil and part rottweiler, she terrorizes the fleeing animals, hell bent on claiming Alex’s scalp to complete her stuffed animal wall hangings.
Ben Stiller returns as the voice of good-hearted lion Alex, Chris Rock reprises his role as the irrepressible zebra Marty and David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith are back as Melman and Gloria respectively.
New to the cast in the “threequel” are Bryan Cranston as Vitaly, Martin Short as the scene-stealing Italian sea lion Stefano and Jessica Chastain as a sultry jaguar.
According to website Boxofficemojo.com, the first Madagascar film from 2005 earned $533 million in global ticket sales and the second (2008) around $604 million.
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)
Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/joke-europe-madagascar-sequel-comes-cannes-135812150--finance.html
Facebook and Treasurys, the Odd Couple
By Paul Vigna
Facebook promises to be as high-profile a high-tech darling as there is, once is makes it onto the public exchanges. But for all that, following in the footsteps of Amazon and Google, blazing a path in the hot world of social media, there’s one way in which Facebook shares are actually very similar to boring, stodgy, hated-but-safe Treasurys.
SmartMoney’s Jack Hough explained the unusual similarity on this morning’s Markets Hub.
Article source: http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/05/16/facebook-and-treasurys-the-odd-couple/?mod=WSJBlog
Curtis King Interview – PAID DUES 2012 Festival On INDIEPOWER TV
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Stupid Stuff People Do
A compilation of pictures of people doing odd and stupid things. Makes me wonder about the future generations..
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Islands of Caribbean
Security Home Alarm
