Ice Cube with Funkmaster Flex: The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003. Sunday, September 21, 2008.
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Boy A is a 5 times awarded story of young ex-con Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a child.

Ballast is a powerful drama set in the Mississippi delta, where one man’s suicide affects three people’s lives. Winner of the Directing and Cinematography award at Sundance 2008.

It’s all about the message or how you manipulate existing ones.
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One great song with nice lyrics. Didn’t know there was a video too.

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New Orleans filmmaker Benjamin Reece asks fifty New Orlean’s residents a single question: “If you could wish for one thing to happen by the end of the day, what would it be?”.

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PAPPA*PHONE by Hulger is a hand crafted Skype handset forged from walnut, brass and pure classiness.
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Arthur Szyk is considered one of the 20th century’s most important political caricaturists and illustrators. He confronted the threat of National Socialism in his sketches and drawings years before the beginning of the Second World War. The exhibition presents Arthur Szyk’s oeuvre in the form of a representative cross-section which focuses particularly on the artist’s inventive, detailed political caricatures.

29 August 2008 to 4 January 2009, German Historical Museum Berlin

The Tropics – Views from the Middle of the Globe is an exhibition of the Goethe-Institut and the Ethnological Museum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

12 September 2008 to 5 January 2009, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin

Matteo Garrone‘s new movie Gomorra (Winner of the Grand Prize of the Festival in Cannes 2008) gives an inside look at Italy’s modern-day crime families.