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REEWIND: An interview with THE INDEPENDENTS
August 31st, 2012 by Mr. C
The Independents, a horror punk/ska band were one of our favorite acts to rise out of the east village punk music scene in the late 1990s most notably playing at clubs like The Continental, Coney Island High, and Brownies. Being from the dirty planet of NJ, Chocko and I also saw the Independents perform at […]
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Detournement : Signs of the Times – art exhibition at Jonathan Levine Gallery
August 28th, 2012 by Mr. C
———————————————————————————————————————— Being the slackers that we are, we made it to the last day of the Detournement : Signs of the Times art exhibit. Thanks to @mondocurry for forcing the action. I had no idea that last Saturday was the end of the run. The Signs of the Times is a group exhibition that celebrates […]
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Curtis Salgado + Joanne Shaw Taylor at the Blues BBQ
August 27th, 2012 by Mr. C
(All photos & videos by mr c except the Annie Lennox performance) I eventually stumbled into the Blues BBQ Festival on Pier 84 last Saturday which was a stones throw away from the U.S.S. Intrepid if you are a major league pitcher that is. Earlier in the day, my mind was double pumping in the […]
Tags: blues, blues bbq, r&b
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We are ALL Private DANNY CHEN
August 13th, 2012 by Mr. C
A rally was held at Columbus Park in Chinatown last Saturday to show support for the family of 19 year old Private Danny Chen who took his own life after being hazed and subjected to racial slurs by his superiors while on duty in Afghanistan. This gathering at Columbus Park was also in protest to […]
Tags: danny chen, justice, rally
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REEWIND: An interview with Stockyard Stoics
August 9th, 2012 by Mr. C
Tags: interviews, joe piglet, planet chocko zine archives, punk
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Kimmo Pohjonen & Helsinki Nelson: Accordion Wrestling
August 9th, 2012 by Mr. C
I wasn’t sure what I was witnessing at first glance with the Finnish Accordion Wrestling performance at Damrosch Park on the grounds of Lincoln Center but the show ended up being quite a unique & pleasant spectacle to the eyes and ears! This hybrid theatrical performance – part music, wrestling, art, & dance was headed […]
Tags: accordion, finnish, wrestling
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Chio-Tian Taiwanese Folk Drumming at Summer Streets NYC – Foley Square
August 6th, 2012 by Mr. C
(Photos and videos by mr c) (drum team getting ready for a performance with Channel 2 news before show) I had missed the Chio-Tian Taiwanese Folk Drumming and Arts Troupe perform at Hearst Plaza in Lincoln Center (U.S. premiere) last Friday but fortunately little chinese elves had told me that this dynamic drum team was […]
Tags: drumming, taiwanese
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murals from POW WOW Hawaii 2012 — Kakaako street art
August 3rd, 2012 by Mr. C
——————————————————————————————————————— Aloha, my fellow ninjas and mutants – a Planet Chocko friend and co-conspirator on many NYC events & beyond – MONDOCURRY is reporting live from our great state of Hawaii. He traded in his chuck taylor’s for a pair of flip-flops (at least for the summer) and is combing the streets of Honolulu in […]
Tags: graffitti, hawaii, mondocurry, murals, street art, travel
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Don’t cry for me Philadelphia updates!
August 1st, 2012 by Mr. C
———————————————————————————————————– With this exclusive update, we’re going to hand the baton over to Mondocurry who can often be found dissecting and probing movies with his lab coat on while traveling at the speed of thought at Unseen Films. Mondocurry’s film writeups can be described as poetic meshed with a systematic and cerebral approach offering up […]
Tags: bella vista, food, mondocurry, murals, passyunk avenue, philadelphia
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Chinese Acrobats + Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at Lincoln Center Out of Doors
July 31st, 2012 by Mr. C
The risks of thunder, lightning, & rain storms didn’t damper the festivities for family day last saturday at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors program. We all got a chance to bear witness to chinese acrobats flying through the air with martial grace as the performers tumbled, somersaulted, & break falled as they avoided the […]
Tags: chinese acrobats, circus, lincoln center, live performances
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REEWIND: Planet Chocko Zine – an interview with Dick Manitoba from THE DICTATORS
July 26th, 2012 by Mr. C
Greetings mutants, just a scan below from our printed zine from when Chocko had a friendly talk with lead singer – Handsome Dick Manitoba from the legendary Rock n’Roll band hailing from The Bronx — THE DICTATORS. Enjoy the reads and stop by Dick Manitoba’s bar in Alphabet City called…what else…MANITOBA’S to catch a Yankee […]
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TRIGGER REACTION – cynthia rothrock, bolo, richard norton, oleg taktarov – coming soon!
July 26th, 2012 by Mr. C
Talk about an all star collection of raggamuffin martial artist/movie stars from the past – move over EXPENDABLES! Trigger Reaction is currently in production. Hopefully, it will be ready for consumption by the new year. The cast includes: BOLO YEUNG, RICHARD NORTON, CYNTHIA ROTHROCK, MATTHIAS HUES, TONY DE LEON, OLEG TAKTAROV, ANDREW FANELLI, & more. […]
Tags: action, martial arts movie
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