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A beach, old growth trees, unmatchable sports history, high and low culture, a waterfall, and wide open green spaces--welcome to the only New York City borough with its own definite article: The Bronx (or perhaps you prefer the hip hop version: The Boogie Down). It's also the only borough that the World Champion New York Yankees call home.
Where Jake the Bull raged, the first Jewish woman in the U.S. Congress learned about feminism, Hank Greenberg hit his earliest home runs, and J-Lo was still Jenny from the block, The Bronx has spent too long as a punch line, too long stereotyped by Fort Apache and burnt out buildings. It's time to recognize a multi-cultural outpost where, for the price of a subway ride, anyone can stay green while making the holiday scene.
14 Low Impact Ways to Appreciate The Boogie Down
1. Wave Hill
A 28-acre public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades, its mission is "to celebrate the artistry and legacy of its gardens and landscapes, to preserve its magnificent views, and to explore human connections to the natural world through programs in horticulture, education and the arts."
Nearest Subway: 1 train to 242nd Street (Wave Hill provides free hourly van service from there)
2. Van Cortlandt Park
New York's fourth largest park is 1,146 acres in the northern Bronx. The bad news is that it contains the country's first public golf course. The good news is that it also houses the borough's largest freshwater lake. Plus: nature centers, bocce courts, hiking trails, and more.
Nearest Subway: 1 train to 242nd Street
3. Pelham Bay Park
Central Park gets all the attention, for good reason, but Pelham Bay Park is three times larger at 2,766 acres and it features a 13-mile saltwater shoreline along the Long Island Sound. Sports--from hockey to handball--along with canoes, kayaks, running tracks, and greenways. Not to mention, the next entry: Orchard Beach.
Nearest Subway: 6 train to the Pelham Bay Park subway station and then take the direct Bx12 bus
4. Orchard Beach
The "Riviera of New York" is The Bronx's only beach, broken in 13 sections over 115 acres (1.1 miles long park). Orchard Beach includes a hexagonal-block promenade, a central pavilion with food stores and specialty shops, two playgrounds, two picnic areas, a large parking lot, and 26 courts for basketball, volleyball, and handball.
Nearest Subway: 6 train to the Pelham Bay Park subway station and then take the direct Bx12 bus
5. City Island
A 1.5 mile by .5 mile wide island community just beyond Pelham Bay Park and surrounded by the waters of the Long Island Sound and Eastchester Bay. Home to humans, of course, but you may also see raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, skunk, deer, maybe even coyotes, and birds like ducks, Canada geese, mute swans, great blue herons, great white egrets, several types of gull, feral pigeons, and bright green parrots (monk parakeets) Be sure to check out the lighthouses: Execution Light to the northeast and Stepping Stones to the south.
Nearest Subway: 6 train to Pelham Bay Park and then the Bx29 bus towards City Island
6. Yankee Stadium Tour
The House That Ruth Built has given way to a brand new stadium across the street but the Bronx Bomber baseball tradition continues unabated. Don't miss the opportunity to take a tour of the new Yankee Stadium and be sure to say hello to The Babe, The Iron Horse, The Yankee Clipper, and The Mick out in Monument Park.
Nearest Subway: 4 train to 161 St-Yankee Stadium
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El Extreme "Honking and Shouting" Little Otis / Blog
Top 40 FAN FAVORITES IN VOTING FOR SALSA AWARDS 2012. (July 30, 2012)
VOTING CONTINUES THROUGH AUGUST 31, 2012 http://www.facebook.com/Salsamagazine.comSalsaMusicAwards2012 1. KARIBU EL SON DEL CARIBE 1,000,000 + Votes Costa Rica 2. ORQUESTA SIGLO XXI 519,000 + Votes Cataño, Puerto Rico 3. TITO GUADALUPE 436,000 + Votes Waterbury, Ct. 4. CONJUNTO PUERTO RICO 425,000 + Votes San Juan, PR 5. LA MAXIMA de MAXIMINO RIVERA 337,000 + Vote Puerto Rico 6. TRINA MEDINA 328,000 + Votes Caracas, Venezuela 7. SON DE TIKIZIA 321,000 + Votes San Jose, Costa Rica 8. HURACAN ORQUESTA 238, 000 + Votes Cali, Colombia 9. ACHE SONORA 212,000 + Votes Bogota, Colombia 10. ORQUESTA ESPADA 201,000 + Votes Hartford, Ct. 11. CLERIKO SALSA 185,000 + Votes Buenos Aires, Argentina 12. EDWIN PABON 184,000 + Votes Boston, MA 13. LEO D`BARRIO 181,000 + Votes Cali, Colombia 14. URBANA SALSA CAPITAL 157,000 + Votes Colombia 15. AMARYLLIS SANTIAGO 142,000 + Votes Columbia, Pa. 16. MICHAEL STUART 137,000 + Votes San Juan, Puerto Rico 17. WITO COLON 124,000 + Votes Puerto Rico 18. CHOCOLATE Y SU ORQUESTA 113,000 + Votes Phil. , PA 19. RAFAELITO Y SU TUMBAO 111,000 + Votes Munich, Germany 20. BAILATINO LA RESISTENCIA SALSERA 111,000 + Votes 21. FANIA EVOLUTION 107,000 + Votes Caracas, Venezuela 22. ORQUESTA MADERA NUEVA 102,000 + Votes Costa Rica 23. ISMAEL MIRANDA 83,000 + Votes Caguas, Puerto Rico 24. COCOBLUE SALSA BAND 83,000 + Votes Bogota, Colombia 25. BORICUA LEGENDS 82,000 + Votes New York , New York 26. ERIK SANCHEZ Y SU ORQUESTA 79,000 + Votes Costa Rica 27. VICTOR MANUELLE 69,000 + Votes Isabela, Puerto Rico 28. JUNIOR GONZALEZ 68,000 + Votes Puerto Rico 29. DON PERIGNON 66,000 + Votes Puerto Rico 30. TITO NIEVES 65,000 + Votes Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 31. CANO ESTREMERA 65,000 + Votes San Juan, Puerto Rico 32. HERMAN OLIVERAS 62,000 + Votes Florida, USA 33. CARLOS JIMENEZ 60,000+ Votes Yonkers NY 34. TEGO CALDERON 59,000 + Votes Santurce Puerto Rico 35. SALSOCO 59,000 + Votes Ponce, Puerto Rico 36. CONJUNTO CLASICO 57,000 + Votes New York, New York 37. LUISITO CARRION 55,000 + Votes San Juan, Puerto Rico 38. CONJUNTO IMAGEN 55,000+ Votes NY NY 39. FAJARDO JR. Y SU ORQUESTA 55,000 + Votes Little Falls, NJ 40. TONY TAHE 53,000 + Votes Paris, France
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Planet Lovetron Eye On BG MUSICIAN JEREMY PAGE (Mirror Mind)
http://blip.tv/wepawebtv/planet-lovetron-eye-on-bg-musician-jeremy-page-mirror-mind-6279992 One of the great aspects of the Bowling Green Arts Scene is Wednesday Night's "Hump Day" Review at Grumpy Daves on Main Street is meeting a wide variety of local artists with burgeoning talent. Jeremy Page (AKA "Mirror Mind") is a well traveled young man who uses his music to delve into his inner self and express it outwardly through performance. Influenced by Neil Young and Bob Dylan, Page shies away from flamboyance and is reserved in speaking about his career but the dedication to his craft is evident in the delivery of his original compositions.
"ESPIRITU SALSA" The Official FM Radio Show For the Salsa-salsamagazine.com Awards 2012 on WBGU 88.1 FM WEDNESDAYS Noon-2:00 pm. Produced by: Mr Salsa Izzy Sanabria and Hosted by: Luis Chaluisan (El Extreme). The Espiritu Salsa show features Salsa-house/world music plus multicultural Arts news. Listen on line at http://wbgufm.com/ Espirtu Salsa has been on air in 12 Markets since 1975
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Time To Cut Deadwood - Hasta La Bye Bye New York City
http://www.facebook.com/Salsamagazine.comSalsaMusicAwards2012 With the establishment of Espiritu Salsa's Library of 2 million + Recordings from across the globe and the Global support of Latino Artists featured in the salsamagazine.com Salsa Awards (Voting contnues through August 31 with a million and a half Salseros voting each week) we have come to the decision at WEPAwebTV and salsamagazine.com to let go of the moribound NY Latin Music scene and instead focus on what is happening outside of the former capital of Salsa Music. We see no resolution or rebound for NYC as industry credibility and innovation continues on a downward spiral into relative obscurity or relevance.
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Tonight! Community Concert For Peace
The Common Good 113 Crim Street 7:00 PM The Dark Gypsees, El Extreme, Drum and Dance Collectiive, Jimmy Lambert, AJ Rogers and more! http://www.facebook.com/EspirituSalsa The Common Good is “a public space for experiments in living well.” The Common Good is a community center where students, faculty, and Bowling Green community members meet to initiate & participate in projects to improve themselves and the community. Our mission is to “provide a Free Space for students and community members to create and participate in experimental efforts to learn how to live well, individually, within a community, and as citizens of the nation and the world.” We have created and now support a number of on-going projects. Many of these were the great ideas of BGSU students and graduates. Some of them include an arts program for two local after-school programs, two community gardens, free meals three times a week, a philosophy discussion series, free yoga classes, community gatherings through talking circles and chai time, Bible study, and community meditation practices. We also work to be a community center that helps those struggling in our community to obtain basic necessities; to this end, we distribute free donations of bread loaves, bagels, and pastries (thanks to Panera!) to community members and students. The Window Box Exchange programs provides participants with a free window box, soil, and vegetable seeds. Participants are encouraged to come together to trade their produce for free. All of our projects and programs aim to empower students and community members to think about their lifestyles, try out new ways of living, bring their ideas to life, and thereby transform their individual lives and our collective community life. Our Mission: Provide a Free Space for students and community members to create and participate in experimental efforts to learn how to live well, individually, within a community, and as citizens of the nation and the world. History: The Common Good opened at 113 Crim St. in August 2010. The Common Good is a community center and free space that brings students and community members together to create and participate in 'experiments in living well.' The Common Good is a new program of the United Christian Fellowship, a student center for spirituality and activism serving the Bowling Green community since the 1960s. The UCF's location on Thurstin St. was sold in May 2010 to BGSU. The Common Good serves as a new home for the work the UCF has been doing in this community for half a century to engage students in their own lives and in the life of their community. The UCF, a registered 501-c-3 non-profit, coordinates with BGSU's Arts Village to take students on for-credit service-learning trips to the South Bronx and the Navajo Reservation each year. Send an email to thecommongoodbg@gmail.com for more information about these trips!
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Special Featuring Late Jimmy Sabater
Just wrapped Up Production on Espiritu Salsa Special (WBGU 88.1 FM Bowling Green www.wbgufm.com) featuring the late JIMMY SABATER. Music, Interview and personal recollections of the time I spent with him over the years. http://www.facebook.com/groups/salsamagazine/ Taste La Salsa de Jimmy Sabater - Pioneer Jimmy Sabater Joe Cuba Sextet Stepping Out Seeco 1962 Salsamagazine.com Salsa Awards Hall Of Fame http://blip.tv/wepawebtv/jimmy-sabater-joe-cuba-sextet-stepping-out-seeco-1962-salsamagazine-com-salsa-awards-2012-hall-of-fame-6118622 One of the seeds for the WorldWide Salsa Explosion were planted Salsa in 1962 when Secco Records released Joe Cuba’s Stepping Out LP. In Jimmy Sabater’s tune Salsa y Bembé, vocalist Cheo Feliciano wants his main squeeze to add salsa to the bembé (dance) when she dances. The lyrics suggest that there is a request for the dancer to liven up or spice up her performance. “When I wrote this tune,” said Sabater, “I was labeling the music as salsa…you know exciting. When musicians were asked to spice up the music there were shouts of “guataca”. When the band executed the mambo part, I heard shouts of “wapachosa”. These were labels which never caught on. My use of salsa was to describe the music, not the food.” Stepping Out 1962 1. A Las Seis 2:43 2. To Be With You 2:51 3. Oriente 2:58 4. Salsa Y Bembe 2:55 5. Rosalia 2:53 6. Callejero 2:34 7. Que Va! 2:25 8. Como Rien 2:56 9. Wabble-Cha 2:26 10. Cachondea 3:00 11. Mujer 2:38 12. Yo Vine Pa' Ver 2:11 Who launched "Salsa" as a term to describe the music? The classic hit title track of Salsa y Control, composed by Jose Lebron, was one of the factors contributing to the use of the word salsa (sauce) as a descriptive term for Latin music in 1970. However, Eddie Palmieri utilized it in the song "Ritmo Caliente" which was peformed on Palmieri's debut with La Perfecta on Alegre Records in 1962 and Jimmy Sabater Sr. used it in the the song “Salsa y Bembé” which appeared on fellow Puerto Rican, Joe Cuba’s (Gilberto Miguel Calderon) album,“Stepping Out” in 1962.
"ESPIRITU SALSA" The Official FM Radio Show For The Salsa Awards Show. Soon To Be Nationally Syndicated. Espiritu Salsa-salsamagazine.com Awards 2012 Show on WBGU 88.1 FM WEDNESDAYS Noon-2:00 pm. Produced by: Mr Salsa Izzy Sanabria and Hosted by: Luis Chaluisan (El Extreme). The Espiritu Salsa show features Salsa-house/world music plus multicultural Arts news. Listen on line at http://wbgufm.com/ Espirtu Salsa has been on air in 12 Markets since 1975
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REFUNDS OF CANCELLED SALSA AWARDS SHOW 2012
Refunds To Those Who bought tickets to the proposed Live Salsa Awards Show in September are being sent out now that Brown Paper Tickets have been informed of the ongoing investigation of the NY Salsa Industry based based on death threats and accusations against salsamagazine.com's staff made by DON SONERO, Jerry Hernandez (Orquesta Dee Jay) members of Aurora Flores Zon Del Barrio, Larry Harlow, promoter Andres Padua and others.
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The Importance Of Documenting Your Work
Thirty Seven Years of recording both my work and that of fellow artists I admire has paid off in Spades. In the coming weeks the show on WBGU FM is going to be taking a dramatic turn as I begin to unleash these works with precious interviews and music-performances that is a celebratio of going down the road less travelled. Esa Va! http://www.facebook.com/EspirituSalsa Espiritu Salsa-salsamagazine.com Awards 2012 Show on WBGU 88.1 FM WEDNESDAYS Noon-2:00 pm. (EST NYC) Produced by: Mr Salsa Izzy Sanabria and Hosted by: Luis Chaluisan (El Extreme). The Espiritu Salsa show features Salsa-house/world music plus multicultural Arts news. Listen on line at http://wbgufm.com/ Espirtu Salsa has been on air in 12 Markets since 1975
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The Boogie Down Bronx Ain't Burning Anymore
http://blip.tv/wepawebtv/the-boogie-down-bronx-ain-t-burning-anymore-6277692 A beach, old growth trees, unmatchable sports history, high and low culture, a waterfall, and wide open green spaces--welcome to the only New York City borough with its own definite article: The Bronx (or perhaps you prefer the hip hop version: The Boogie Down). It's also the only borough that the World Champion New York Yankees call home.
Where Jake the Bull raged, the first Jewish woman in the U.S. Congress learned about feminism, Hank Greenberg hit his earliest home runs, and J-Lo was still Jenny from the block, The Bronx has spent too long as a punch line, too long stereotyped by Fort Apache and burnt out buildings. It's time to recognize a multi-cultural outpost where, for the price of a subway ride, anyone can stay green while making the holiday scene.
14 Low Impact Ways to Appreciate The Boogie Down
1. Wave Hill A 28-acre public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades, its mission is "to celebrate the artistry and legacy of its gardens and landscapes, to preserve its magnificent views, and to explore human connections to the natural world through programs in horticulture, education and the arts." Nearest Subway: 1 train to 242nd Street (Wave Hill provides free hourly van service from there)
2. Van Cortlandt Park
New York's fourth largest park is 1,146 acres in the northern Bronx. The bad news is that it contains the country's first public golf course. The good news is that it also houses the borough's largest freshwater lake. Plus: nature centers, bocce courts, hiking trails, and more. Nearest Subway: 1 train to 242nd Street
3. Pelham Bay Park Central Park gets all the attention, for good reason, but Pelham Bay Park is three times larger at 2,766 acres and it features a 13-mile saltwater shoreline along the Long Island Sound. Sports--from hockey to handball--along with canoes, kayaks, running tracks, and greenways. Not to mention, the next entry: Orchard Beach. Nearest Subway: 6 train to the Pelham Bay Park subway station and then take the direct Bx12 bus
4. Orchard Beach The "Riviera of New York" is The Bronx's only beach, broken in 13 sections over 115 acres (1.1 miles long park). Orchard Beach includes a hexagonal-block promenade, a central pavilion with food stores and specialty shops, two playgrounds, two picnic areas, a large parking lot, and 26 courts for basketball, volleyball, and handball. Nearest Subway: 6 train to the Pelham Bay Park subway station and then take the direct Bx12 bus
5. City Island A 1.5 mile by .5 mile wide island community just beyond Pelham Bay Park and surrounded by the waters of the Long Island Sound and Eastchester Bay. Home to humans, of course, but you may also see raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, skunk, deer, maybe even coyotes, and birds like ducks, Canada geese, mute swans, great blue herons, great white egrets, several types of gull, feral pigeons, and bright green parrots (monk parakeets) Be sure to check out the lighthouses: Execution Light to the northeast and Stepping Stones to the south. Nearest Subway: 6 train to Pelham Bay Park and then the Bx29 bus towards City Island
6. Yankee Stadium Tour
The House That Ruth Built has given way to a brand new stadium across the street but the Bronx Bomber baseball tradition continues unabated. Don't miss the opportunity to take a tour of the new Yankee Stadium and be sure to say hello to The Babe, The Iron Horse, The Yankee Clipper, and The Mick out in Monument Park. Nearest Subway: 4 train to 161 St-Yankee Stadium
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What It's All About
It was never about being a star. It was about being part of the scene. It was about being part of The Movement. JOY TO BE PART of the Reconquest. Nunca se trató de ser una estrella. Se trataba de ser una parte de la escena. Se trataba de ser una parte del movimiento. ORGULLO DE SER PARTE de la reconquista. http://www.facebook.com/Salsamagazine.comSalsaMusicAwards2012
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El Beny Y Feco
But it was Benny More who really flipped my dad out along with Tito Rodriguez, Daniel Santos, Mon Rivera, Cortijo , Bienvenido Granda and Gilberto Monroig My Afternoon With El Beny Y Feco: BENY MORE Y SU BANDA GIGANTE : 1. Benny More Castellano Que Bueno Baila Usted 2. Benny More Francisco Guayabal 3. Benny More Soy Guajiro Benny Moré (Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez, 24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963), or Beny, was a Cuban singer. He is often thought of as the greatest Cuban popular singer of all time. He was gifted with an innate musicality and fluid tenor voice which he colored and phrased with great expressivity. Moré was a master of most genres of Cuban music, such as the son montuno, mambo, guaracha, and bolero. In particular, it is unusual for a singer to be equally proficient at both the fast rhythms (e.g. guaracha) and the slower rhythms, such as the bolero. Moré also formed and led the leading Cuban big band of the 1950s, until his death
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