Haven Arts Student Show, Bronx NY

The opening of a student art show at the Haven Gallery was nice. The Haven Gallery is in the South Bronx at 50 Bruckner Blvd. On hand at the opening were Barry Kostrinsky, the director of the Haven Gallery and also Carol Zakaluk, who is the non-profit coordinator at the Haven Gallery, and discussed other aspects of the student program. The opening event for the Student Art show was followed by a more performance-oriented evening on May 21st, which included a violin chamber ensemble, and the performance of original theater scenes. The scenes were written as part of a collaboration that the students have with a group of elderly people. The students make interviews of these elderly people and use their life story’s to write dramatic play scenes. This can also be used to develop short filmed performances and videos. Also shown at the event on May 21st was a 23-minute film on Bronx History. For more information, email to carol@havenarts.org .

I spoke to one of the teachers of the students at Bronx H.S. of the Visual Arts, Mr. Joel Key. The Bronx H.S. of Visual Arts is located at 50 Antin Pl., near Barnes Ave., and south of Pelham Parkway. Mr. Key was not expecting such a beautiful art exhibit space as there is at the Haven Gallery. He says that the art work of his students was all computed generated, using photographs. Then several photos are combined, the colors are changed, and various other adjustments are made to create original artwork. Another teacher at Bronx H.S. of the Visual Arts is Linda Stern. She explained that much of the portrait work was done around issues of teenage identity. For more information on exhibits at the Haven Gallery, please see www.havenarts.org or call 718-585-5753.

Bronx Health Fair and Government Help Info

The Health Fair, all day at PS 33, helped raised health awareness in the community. PS 33 is located at Jerome Avenue, near Fordham Rd, on May 28th. Elementary school classes were taken out to get literature on available city and health care programs, and the health fair was open to the public. In addition, a major attraction was the Jet One Academy of Martial Arts that teaches children Tae Kwon Do, a Korean martial art. The instructor, from the Dominican Republic, played the Dominican, South Korean and United States national anthems, to begin. The children were especially interested in watching children of about age12 demonstrate their defense moves. Martial arts is also about meditation, obtaining peace of mind, and learning to be confident.

Literature was circulated on the WIC program, the program for women, infants and children, to make sure they get formula, milk and other necessities for moms and children under 5 years old. The representative of WIC there was Ms. Rosemary Rios, and her WIC program is headquartered at St. Barnabas Hospital, 2021 Grand Concourse. Ms. Aida Nacio, a marketing representative of Health Plus, showed people that they could join an HMO health insurance plan, and their family may be eligible for free coverage. For example, free coverage of a family of 3 is for incomes up to $2,200 a month. Children can be covered free if their family income is as high as $3,000. See http://www.health.state.ny.us for more details. Other programs that had information tables were the Score Educational Centers, and the New York Public Library Reading Club. The League for the Hard of Hearing had a van parked at the curb, where they gave free tests of people’s hearing. An information table gave out advice on food stamps eligibility, with more information available at 1-866-FOOD-NYC.

Violence in the Bronx

What is it? Is it hard economic times? The rising price of gas and diesel fuel? In any case, violence and murder are going through the roof.


At least five men are dead after a weekend of violence throughout the borough. On Saturday night, an 18-year-old was fatally shot in the head near Fulton Avenue and 173rd Street. Also of note is that a 40-year-old man was shot in the head on Ford Street behind the Twin Park West Houses. Another man was killed in the lobby of 1749 Grand Concourse. A man in his 20s was also fatally shot after a fight broke out on 211th Street on Memorial Day. On Billingsley Terrace, police say, there was another shooting victim, who is expected to recover from his wounds. The protesteasyguns.com people were out recently against guns, but let's get real, those types of protest will not save us anymore than they saved Bosnia.

Major Violence is Back in Harlem

Major violence is back in Harlem. I don't know why, but a lot of shootings are suddenly occurring. A case in point is the shooting of 6 people, all who are expected to recover on Lenox Ave., between 125 and 128th St. This could have some effect on the mass development plans for Harlem. Or perhaps this is some kind of resistance to the mass development and turning of harlem into Black Disneyland. Other shootings were reported near the state office building at Adam Clayton Powell Blvd and 125th. A crowd had been running from further south in Marcus Garvey Park, south of 125th St on Lenox.

Areas cordoned off by police include Starbuck's at Lenox and 125th St, and the H & M Store further down near ACPowell Blvd.

Perhaps it's the higher gas prices and other prices hitting, as well as the ridiculously high rent and real estate prices in Harlem NY these days. If you look back on the internet, there were also a lot of shootings in the Lenox Ave area 120th st to `135th st, all through last summer and into Thankgiving time.

Social Sparking Your Advertisers

A lot more Harlem and New York City companies ought to start using SocialSpark.com. You can get in touch with a lot of popular bloggers. An interesting company is Harlem Heritage Tours, http://www.harlemheritage.com/home.shtml and other tourist companies in New York City and vicinity. Another fun place is the Studio Museum http://www.studiomuseuminharlem.org/ in Harlem NY. There are lots of links between artists in residence, the community and also photography.

In general, the art community is beginning to learn how to use the web to publicize their events and sell their projects. Another interesting gallery, this one in the South Bronx, is the Haven Gallery, havengallery.org . Some of these galleries have a bit of interaction with some of the local museums, like the bronx museum, bronxmuseum.org . It is noted that they have a dot org website, and indeed, a lot of student art exhibitions take place at this Gallery at 50 Bruckner Blvd, in the Bronx, and the owner, Barry Kostrinsky is a real sweetheart. For more on fun in the South Bronx, in an art sense, take a look at bronxarts.org and the schedule of the free tour of first Wednesdays each month, the Bronx trolley.

On the higher end, there is the Matthew Marks gallery matthewmarks.com , on West 24th St, which is a more expensive and hip place. I won't try to describe the individual artists and what they do. Suffice it is to say is that all the artists are very hip. Some of the paintings and photographs are presented in a post-modern way, while revolutionary and distinct furniture is also on display.

The George Soros Harlem Doggie Project

What is this Mr. Geoffrey Canada of the Children's Zone and all that? Is he a brilliant entrepreneur and fundraiser, or is he a George Soros operative of the Harlem Doggie Disneyland project? Let's see what this is about. It was written up in the 2004 New York times as the Harlem Project. It is just a giant bribe to prepare the doggies for the slaughter.

Now in the wake of the dumping of Gov. Elliot Spitzer by whoregate, we have our new Harlem Gov. David Patterson. Is he flirting with dumping Hillary clinton for Obama?

Harlem Disneyland

Are we going to have the Harlem Disneyland? Is this a good thing? No one can afford to get a new apartment, unless you are one of the chosen, for the subsidized one. That is like getting permission to be an extra in the new Harlem Movie.

Really, $5,000 a month, $60,000 a year for the mortgage on an apartment at the Kalahari, that is a lot of dough. You have to make 150 Gs.

How to Lower Oil Prices

One suggestion on how to lower oil prices is to fix the dollar. This sounds appealing. It sounds like more Bronx and Harlem boys and girls don't have to go off and fight a war for this, but how do you do it? Here is one suggestion from Seeking Alpha, it is to fix the dollar. The author Todd Sullivan says that if the dollar had kept pace, or had been fixed to the Euro, the price of a barrel of oil would only be $57 a barrel, not approaching $135 a barrel. That is all well and good, but how can the dollar be fixed? We need to reel in speculation in currencies and have a fixed exchange regime again, as we did before Nixon and George Schultz ruined that in 1971.

So it is time to ask if Mr Obama or Mr. McCain, or Hillary Clinton have any ideas on this subject. If I were them, I would start looking at larouchepac.

Bronx Real Estate Gloom

Up in the Northeast Bronx, a lot of the bubble went up and now it is coming down. The real estate bubble, I mean. In a Daily News Story, a homeowner is highlighted who wants to sell his house and leave town. Unfortunately for him, so do two other people on the block. Two abandoned houses are not helping things either. Something like $5 billion has disappeared in the falling home values, just in the Bronx. I guess that means that nationwide about 300 times as much has been lost, or $1.5 trillion. No wonder there is a credit crunch. Neighborhoods in the Bronx that have been hit hard include Wakefield and north of the Pelham Parkway. I bet Harlem is next to go.

Egypt's Mubarak Concerned on Bio-fuels threat to Food

Mubarak's statement on the dangers of biofuels is doubly important when one remembers that this is a key running dog of the USA otherwise. He called for suspending bio-fulds at the World Economic Forum, I guess that is the one at Davos, Switzerland. This can interface the new agreements between Russia, China and India, on dealing with threats to food supplies and strategic threats. They are beginning to realize that the British financial empire wants to starve them to death.



Note that Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche has gotten out the call for emergency action to double food production. Home boys in The Bronx and Harlem, NY, please take note, don't wait till you can't get some food too. From Davos, to Sharm-el Sheik, food is the question, what will be the answer?

the UN, Food and all that

There will be a distribution of literature at the UN about how to deal with the food crisis. Us people from the Bronx and Harlem have to lead the way. It is known that the President of Senegal was just in France trying to get rice seeds and other seeds, otherwise his people could die of starvation. They must raise rice and other crops. There must be action now to raise and double food production. Time is wasting, the planting season is going.

We need US government action. In California, milk is being dumped because the producers, the farmers are getting such low prices. The government needs to buy up milk at a fair price and create milk powder and cheese and ship it out all over the world. Give it to governments, don't just have the aid organization dump it to collapse prices. We need food now, we need farmers getting fair prices and we need production. That also will be the message to the FAO meeting in Rome Italy, in Jume.

Why is Food Production Going Down?

Why is food production going down? Is it really climate change, or too many people? Yes, food production in many cases IS going down. It is because globalization, the policy of the British and their slightly concealed Empire is destroying the food self-sufficiency of nation after nation. People of the Bronx NY and Harlem NY, beware, you could be next to suffer food shortages.


The following statistics were published in the Washington Post and also at the larouchepac website. The following table was pasted from the larouchepac site.

REGION IMPORTED SELF-SUFFICIENCY
Sub-Saharan Africa: 71% 29%
North Africa: 68% 32%
East Asia and Pacific: 53% 47%
South Asia: 37% 63%
Ibero-America: 27% 73%

From 1990 to 2008, the situation has worsened. Cereal imports up by 63% in Sub-Saharan Africa, 47% in South Asia, 81% in South Amer., at least until the prices skyrocketed.

Looking at the case of Mexico you get a sense of what this means, now 26% of all Mexican corn consumption is imports. A similar situation exists in the production of rice and beans. And in the nation of Ghana, food production has collapsed in only the last 10 years, in Africa. Similar problems are reported in Uganda. For more see allAfrica.com.

Of course, the big question, is what happens when the nations cannot pay for the food anymore? Then they die. Biofuels is the driving force. This British crowd and their friends in Wash DC want to kill, but are too cheap to even set-up death camps. Except, many refugee camps are really death camps in disguise.

Social Spark and Harlem and Bronx NY

I signed up for SocialSpark. I think it could be a neat way to spread the message about Harlem and Bronx New York. And hopefully I will get good stuff to blog about from them as well.

On May 18th, Sunday, is the 5th Annual art festival in East Harlem, at East 106th St, between Third Avenue and Park Ave. Should be a lot of fun. I already blogged about the event Saturday at the Bronx Museum, that is in my last post.

I get a lot of other local events out of the harlemnewsgroup.com and the Harlem Community News and the Bronx Community News, which are both good resources, though they are not online.

Also tomorrow, is the East Harlem Arts Symposium, May 17th, 1 to 4 pm. which is being held at the Reece school at 25 East 104th St, between Madison and Fifth Avenue. This is a lot of talk about artists in East Harlem today, and their roots and all that. It should be helpful to freelance artists, I think.

So there is a lot to blog about. The real estate collapse has finally hit the New York area. They pretended it would never hit and that was a total lie. Then they said it was only something that was going to affect black people in the ghetto. I don't know where they get all this crap from. Then the new line, but wait, but is the reality. Now, it has come out that the multi million-dollar houses in the Hamptons are being foreclosed on. Of course, the banks believed that it was not their problem, because if some idiot foreclosed, then they would just sell the house to another idiot, and the values of houses would go up indefinitely. Welcome to reality folks! And check out Social Spark.

The other interesting thing about Social Spark, is even if you can't get an advertiser to take you up and pay you to blog about them, you can find interesting blogs of other people and blog about them. That way, bloggers can at least increase their links and their real rank. You know, real rank is the new IZEA substitute for that tired worn out thing called google rank. Note also that Social Spark is with Audit-able In-Post Disclosure, 100% Transparency, 100% Real Opinions and 100% Search Engine Friendly

Great Day Tomorrow at the Bronx Museum

Yes it's true, even though I call this blog harlemface, I do hang out in the Bronx a bit more. There are some fun events coming up. At the Haven Gallery, there will be a High School youth show. This is the reception for Salad Days which is tonight at 5- 9 pm, at 50 Bruckner Blvd, the Haven Gallery, the Bronx. For more info check the link.

Tomorrow will be an extravaganza at the Bronx Museum. This will be a be of performances, including the live Waitresses Marching band, at the museum, Sat. May 17th at 12:30 pm and later, at 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx (at East 165th St).

And then on Sunday, also on the Concourse, about 167th sT to 176 St, is the Puerto Rican Day parade.

Death Note, an Manga Anime Smash Movie

DeathNote is going to be in theaters shortly. It is the story of a great student who finds a death note from the manga god Ryuk. The Student is using the death note to rid the society of criminals, but the authorities start to become suspicious. The real fight then becomes between the detective "L" and the student "Light" on what is right and what is wrong? Is it right to kill criminals without a trial? What if you are mistaken, is it right to play god?

This film is hitting theaters only on May 20th and May 21st at 7:30 pm, and includes the hit song, Dani California, by the Red Hot Chili California. To get tickets and find a theater, click on DeathNote.

Is that the one "California, rest in peace, She's my priestess, I'm your priest, yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!? This is definitely a hard core anime film, and it is not rated, but you can presume that it is rated R.

If I had the supernatural ability to travel, I would visit places all over the world and take digital pictures. I could take pictures of Beijing, China, and Timbuktu, Mali, and other places, and then post them on my blog!!! Neat. Or maybe I could teleport people from all over the world to visit Harlem, NY and the Bronx, NY.

Food for All says Harlem, Bronx Face

Politics are strange. While Obama and Clinton duke it out till the death, there is starvation hitting the world, with neither of them noticing. The LYM activists have been working in the street, from Washington DC to Seattle, Washington, to make sure that there is a mobilization against starvation. Harlem and Bronx NY residents have noticed that rice prices suddenly went up from $6.00 for a 20-lb bag to as much as $10 for it.

Now the LaRouche Youth Movement is mobilizing around international action at the FAO summit in Rome on June the 3rd till the 5th. What the world needs is a doubling of food production. The bio-fuels have drained corn and sugar food production which have substituted for other crops. This has been the nail that broke the camels back, to skyrocketing food prices.

Due to economic speculation, the high futures prices for food commodities are often NOT WHAT THE FARMERS GET. There does seem to be a strong British Empire, Anglo-Dutch Oligarchy interest in destroying food production and starving millions. Fertilizer prices have more than doubled, and of course, gas prices are up to $4 a gallon in the United States, $3.20 before taxes. This has made mechanized agriculture more expensive.

Many student groups at the University of Washington, in Seattle are interested in joining the food mobilization. This includes the Indian students, Middle Eastern students, and a new student club interested in helping to stop hunger and homelessness in the United States. Perhaps this will actually affect the Democratic convention in August.

Poor London and Riyadh, No Fireworks in M.East Yet

Yes, the poor oligarchs of the United Kingdom, and the City of London, along with their junior BAE partners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, have not gotten their splendid little war in Lebanon yet. Instead Hezbollah kicked Hariri's militia's ass, and the Lebanese army moved in to take up security in these areas. Which is good for the homeboys in Harlem and the Bronx, NY, cause at least there is not another excuse to jack up gas prices more, now hitting $4/gallon in the Bronx, and more in Manhattan. The Saudis asked for troops from other Arab countries to invade Lebanon, to back up Hariri, and made themselves the laughing stock. Where were they when Ariel Sharon's Israel troops wre running around Lebanon and butchering Palestinians?

Is Obama In? Don't think so.

I don't think so. There is still a big debate on electability, and now the food shortages are hitting and so on. We haven't had a real democratic convention, with multiple voting and discussion ( and riots) since 1968, but that is what we need now to sort out Obama, Hillary, and anyone else waiting in the wings.

Getting Over Obama

The Obama campaign is rapidly burning up. The Rev. Wright speaking tour is really a nasty torture that someone devised for Mr. Obama. The Rezko trial in Chicago is not helping things. We in the Democratic Party must realize that the supporters of Mr. O's campaign have gotten very excited, and we have to help them come down easy. The rights of the lower 80-percent, economically challenged part of the population, whether they be white, black or whatever need to be defended. In a time when the US financial system is disintegrating and needs a bankruptcy reorganization, we cannot play with these issues. And that is what is important for the people of Harlem NY, Bronx NY and related areas.