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  Made in America

  Hamida Kinge | Sun, Aug 17th, 2008 | Category: Interviews | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, brooklyn, sports, music, violence, prison, filmmaking, documentary, neighborhoods, skateboarding, gangs | 1

  Stacy Peralta, former skateboarding icon turned documentary filmmaker, spent 15 years wanting to make the film that eventually became Made In America. An examination of gang life in South Central, Los Angeles, the film combines historic footage and interviews with current and former gang members, as well as activists and experts. Next American City’s Hamida Kinge recently called Peralta at his Los Angeles home to discuss the film, Los Angeles, gangs and racial inequity.

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• Headlines

  What you missed, Airwaves S.O.S., Great Googley-Moogley!, Moth Problems, More

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Mar 18th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, headlines, economy, cnn, president, atlanta, chinese, public airwaves, pesticide, violence, google, microsoft, light brown apple moth, sterilization, czech republic | 0

  Headlines are back after a brief vacation. Here’s a quick recap of what you missed:

  1.) There is still a presidential election in November and you still have thousands of mind-numbing political ads to be subjected to.
  2.) The news media has nothing better to cover than the alleged sexual three-way of the former N.J. governor.
  3.) J.P. Morgan bought Bear Stearns for two dollars a share showing that companies can now merge together with the help of a script writer and coreographer.
  4.) A tornado ripped through Atlanta.
  5.) The nation was shocked when New York governor Elliot Spitzer was discovered to be using the services of a (gasp) prostitute - crossing the fine line of politics and ethics which sent the media and an entire civilization into a frenzy.
  6.) St. Patrick’s Day gave millions of Americans a reason to drink other than the state of the economy and primetime television.
  7.) There is still violence in Tibet. The Chinese are still killing Tibetans. The Tibetans are rioting. The Dalai Lama may resign as Tibet’s head of state. America and CNN thinks N.J. governor three-way story is more important. 

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• The Daily Report

  Philadelphia—city of ellipses, city of what-ifs

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Oct 12th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, violence, ear infections, annette john-hall, south bronx | 1

  There’s something profoundly amiss in Philadelphia.

  Being no stranger to the realities of urban living, I don’t say this lightly. But its resoundingly clear that while the cogs are in place, the machine doesn’t seem to be working quite right. Or even at all.

  It’s not that I’m some sort of hardened veteran. Chances are, I’ll never witness some of the horrors taking place in our neglected urban spaces. However, I would cringe at an accusation of naivete. When I was young, I had…

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