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(antiMusic) The Bronx roar back this week with their third album! To celebrate this release we asked frontman Matt Caughthran to pick his favorite tracks from the album and tell us about them. He more than delivers! Here is Matt with today’s song: Read more..

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A picture of the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx set to open in April 2009.

NEW YORK–Cisco Systems is teaming up with the New York Yankees to offer baseball fans an interactive experience at the ballpark and eventually bring that experience to their living rooms.

At a press conference in Manhattan on Tuesday, Cisco CEO John Chambers unveiled details of a new network the company is building for the Bronx Bombers to help them integrate voice, video, and data into their new stadium, which is set to open in April 2009. Read more..

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In the 25 years since “Wild Style” was first shown, in Times Square, more than a few viewers were convinced that the movie was a documentary. Granted, its stars were real-life graffiti artists like Lee Quiñones, hip-hop groups like the Cold Crush Brothers and break dancers like the Rock Steady Crew. But the story — such as it was — was less a reflection of real life than a hope for the future.

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SOUTH BRONX, November 11 — Mayor Michael Bloomberg, fresh from buying the chance to buy a third term despite the public passage of term limits, now apparently feels free to deploy lawless gangs to evict lower income New Yorker, all in the name of redevelopment.

On November 10, Bloomberg’s housing and buildings Departments converged on a four-story building in Mott Haven in the South Bronx, intent on removing the residents. They never took them to court. Rather, they wrote pretextual vacate orders and called Con Edison to turn off the lights. They stood cackling in the half-light, ridiculing those they were evicting, many of them hard-working immigrants of the type Bloomberg pretends to respect.

From the housing projects across the street, people marveled at the heartlessness of it all. “Wow, they’re throwing all those families out, with their kids and grandmothers,” said one young woman with dangling earrings.

“Yeah, it’s Bloomberg’s New York,” said another. “He thinks only the rich should live here.”

“Dictadura de los ricos,” diagnosed a third, a member of La Prensa del Pueblo / Community on the Move Homesteaders, noting that even when Rudy Giuliani was mayor, this type of eviction did not take place.

Michael Bloomberg speaking high and mightly, lawless evictions not shown Read more..

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Well, our guayabera shirt stayed in the closet and not on our back in San Juan this weekend.

The boss said sending Liz Benjamin, this newspaper’s energetic and talented political columnist and blogger, would be sufficient to cover Somos El Futuro, the annual winter conference of New York’s Hispanic legislators.

I fear Liz and I are at cross-purposes in this Brave New Media World of slapping news right onto the Web site vs. saving it for Kappy’s Tuesday gossip column.

Unfortunately, the Bronx political scene has become hot news citywide, and just won’t wait for the column.

Herewith, the big Bronx stories - with some exclusive updates:
# Bronx state Senators Ruben (The Rev.) Diaz Sr. and Pedro (The Wascally Wabbit) Espada joining a rogue devil cult in the Senate with Hiram Monserrate of Queens and Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, trying to spoil Democrats’ winning edge and elevating Malcolm Smith of Queens from minority to majority leader.

Monserrate, who we hear got a rather heavy duty call from Queens Democratic boss and Bronx/Queens Rep. Joe Crowley, cut out of the cult over the weekend, trading his vote in to chair the Consumer Affairs committee.

We hear The Rev. may be the next to bail, at least remaining neutral, beyond stalling a vote for legalizing gay marriage.

“If Malcolm doesn’t find some way to woo Carl and Pedro,” said an Albany source, “the Democrats are screwed.”

The cult is set to hold a conclave today in the Bronx. Read more..

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