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Religious Girls / Our Brother The Native 1 comment

owlbeemoth wrote 2 weeks ago: Vids and Pics from 7-2-09 Review by Jack Diablo http://eujacksonville.com/story2.php?storyid=618 … more →

Tags: Animal Collective, ann arbor, bright orange, drum's not dead, experimental music, fat cat records, Jacksonville, mum, National Dairy

Rio's bold plan to wall in the favelas1 comment

macleans.ca wrote 1 month ago: In a city starkly divided between rich and poor, the 15 km of new walls that will encircle some of R … more →

Tags: World, Division, Jungle, Rio de Janeiro, slum

Good Music This Weekend1 comment

jackdiablo wrote 1 month ago: I hope you haven’t already made plans this weekend, or if you have that they involve seeing so … more →

Tags: Happenings, sounds like, buff clout, chicken & whiskey, doozers, Eclipse, Honey Chamber, Jacksonville, Karen Carpenter

Tough Junkie,Chicken and Whiskey @ Shantytown!

edbot5000 wrote 1 month ago: A busy weekend is in store for Jax! After checking out Franklin Matthew’s show at Bogda, swin … more →

Tags: x, tough junkie, chicken and whiskey, Scum of the Earth

Chicken and Whiskey@Shantytown!1 comment

edbot5000 wrote 1 month ago: Our buddy and fellow Jax blogger Jack Diablo has a new musical endeavor to unleash upon the citizen … more →

Tags: x, chicken adn whiskey

San Francisco Oysterfest 2009

keepingtim3 wrote 2 months ago: Great Meadow The 10th Annual Oysterfest rolls into San Fran this saturday (May 16th) with all the us … more →

Tags: Happenings, Music, San Francisco, oysterfest, Festival, Michael Franti and Spearhead, The Greyboy Allstars, Poor Man's Whiskey, Ignus Verma

Shantytown Steam Train

travelswell wrote 2 months ago: This is the steam train at Shantytown, near Greymouth on the South Island in New Zealand. … more →

Tags: All posts, New Zealand, Pictures], Steam train, Kaitangata

Shantytown robbed!7 comments

edbot5000 wrote 2 months ago: This just in via myspace: “Allrighty, well it pains me to write this but heres the scoop … more →

Tags: x, Springfield, Robbery

[video] DISTRICT 9 Trailer1 comment

streetknowledge wrote 2 months ago: Damn, when my partner Majesty showed this to me the other day I didn’t really take the time to … more →

Tags: News, apartheid, South Africa, District 9, Neill Blomkamp

Squatter urbanism comes to America25 comments

Mathieu Helie wrote 2 months ago: In previous posts I argued that the only way a modern housing subdivision was possible was by the cr … more →

Tags: Commentary, Death and Life of Great American Cities, historic neighborhood, housing crisis, Land Production, organic city, Planning Process, Subdivision, Sustainable Development

the shantytown home of Pink Bellamy

lostinjersey wrote 3 months ago: Pink Austin Bellamy is, from a technical standpoint, homeless. He has been homeless for 16 years, li … more →

Tags: News, Unusual Homes / Buildings, Middlesex, Homeless, NJ, pink bellamy

Jax Freaktronics (Reax Magazine)

owlbeemoth wrote 3 months ago: Published in Floridas Reax Magazine based in Tampa in April 2009. Go pick up a hard copy all over Fl … more →

Tags: Chicken Jolt, Chris Spohn, experimental music, Florida, Freaktronics, Jacksonville, Jessica Whittington, krautrock, matrix infinity

Rio de Janeiro walls in its poor residents2 comments

Phoebe Ferris-Rotman wrote 3 months ago: To check out my podcast on the Brazilian city’s controversial construction just click the blue … more →

Tags: brazil news, Latin American News, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Latino Lookout, favelas

Another step to solving the housing crisis: downsize cities by destroying neighborhoods20 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 3 months ago: Summary:  Slowly America comes to grip with the terrible decisions necessary to solve the housing cr … more →

Tags: Post-WWII era over?, Homes, housing crisis, rge monitor, fresno, tent city, Sacramento, Flint

Bryan Zepp Jamieson: Notes From the Class War... The Right Moves Further and Further Out of Touch

rikkitikkitavi wrote 3 months ago: Bryan Zepp Jamieson, March 27, 2009 An early question from NBC’s Chuck Todd posed to Barack O … more →

Tags: Commentary, toon, political cartoon, Economy, recession, Economics, Depression, Supply Side, Congress

Modern Shantytowns Are a Throwback to Hoovervilles

Candace Keener wrote 3 months ago: The New York Times reported on the growing number of tents and lean-tos in Fresno, Calif., in the ar … more →

Tags: Stuff You Missed in History Class, Hooverville, Homelessness

The Journey to Emergence4 comments

Mathieu Helie wrote 3 months ago: This is part I of a series of excerpts of an article to be published in the International Journal of … more →

Tags: Theory, Building Codes, Christopher Alexander, Death and Life of Great American Cities, emergence, Friedrich von Hayek, Jane Jacobs, Le Corbusier, medieval city

Meet Charlie McAlister1 comment

owlbeemoth wrote 4 months ago: www.myspace.com/charliemcalister   Around 4am, I watched Charleston, S.C. wierdo folk musician … more →

Tags: Charleston, Charlie McAlister, Chris Spohn, Honey Chamber, Jacksonville, Memphibians, outsider folk, Springfield, wildflower

TinTown

redtambourine wrote 4 months ago: The Pennsylvania Plate Glass factory just across from TinTown Company housing in TinTown I dis … more →

Tags: My Story !, Tin Town, TinTown, Gypsy, polish, blairsville, Pa, Blairsville PA, Croatian background


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