Thursday, April 28, 2011

Chat Chow - A Mouth-Watering new podcast that covers the south florida food scene!

Chatchow.tv
ChatChowTV is a mouth-watering new video podcast that goes behind the scenes with the chefs, owners and mixologists of South Florida's celebrated food industry.

Last week they were Apple's featured Podcast for the day - and we're proud to say they'll be syndicating their talents to gen ñ very soon. But for now, we'd like to give you the opportunity to preview it all right here!

From the minds behind the Cuban Dichos App, and Wii Fit Girlfriend (they're rulers of all things Viral) comes South Florida's hottest new food show - we love this thing - You can peep the episode below, where series host Lauren Bernat sits down with Tarpon Bend's Wayne Eldred - and at their website ChatChow.TV
Catch up on previous guests including Ryan Goodspeed of Michael's Genuine Food and Cindy Hutson of Ortanique on the Mile. We can't wait to have them on gen ñ - but in the meantime - watch below and head over to their site or jump on iTunes for the podcast and follow them on Twitter here Twitter twitter.com/chatchowt

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O, Miami! Last weekend to get in on the beauty

Below we're including lots of info to get you to max out on the last few days of O, Miami - because The Poets, .... ah, the poets know. :)
Thurs, April 28
When: April 28 - 7:00pm
What: Yale Anthology of Rap
Where: >>>New World Center | Performance Hall
Who: Adam Bradley, Adrian Castro, Adrian Matejka + special guests
Info: Nationally renowned poets and MCs share a reading of lyrics and poems, celebrating the nexus of poetry and rap.

When: April 28 - 10:00pm
What: Opium Magazine's Literary Death Match
Where: >>>Purdy Lounge
Who: Judges: Ben Greenman, Andrew Whiteman, Patricia Engel Contestants: Matt Gajewski, Dave Landsberger, Hialeah Haiku, and Mary Sheffield.
Info: Opium Magazine presents its first Miami edition of the internationally acclaimed Literary Death Match. Celebrity judges rate local performers in a winner-take-all literary talent show. Admission free.

Fri., April 29

When: 5:30pm
What: Poetry in the Park
Where: >>>Lincoln Park
Who: Talking Head Transmitters, and the Miami Poetry Collective.
Info: Poetic happenings in Lincoln Park, leading up to the reading in the New World Center.

When: 7:30pm
What: Poetry & Persona
Where: >>>New World Center | SunTrust Pavilion
Who: Actor, writer, artist, and international renaissance man extraordinaire James Franco will read his poetry, alongside his poetic mentor Tony Hoagland, and Miami’s own hometown poetry hero Campbell McGrath
Ticket Info: >>>Click here to purchase tickets from the New World Symphony Box Office.

When: 9:30pm
What: Broken Social Spam
Where: >>>Purdy Lounge
Who: Andrew Whiteman (Broken Social Scene) & DJ Le Spam (Spam All-Stars)
Info: A special night of experimental poetry, featuring DJ Le Spam's epically deep collection of poetry vinyl. Admission free.

Sat., April 30

When: 3:00pm
What: Poetry & Violence
Where: >>>New World Center | SunTrust Pavilion
Who: Jill McDonough, Brian Turner, & Raul Zurita
Info: A discussion and reading of poetry written for contexts of political violence.

When: 5:30pm
What: Poetry in the Park
Where: >>>Lincoln Park
Who: Talking Head Transmitters, Miami Poetry Collective
Info: Poetic happenings leading up to the night's reading in New World Center.

When: 7:00pm
What: US Poet Laureate Reading
Where: >>>New World Center | SunTrust Pavilion
Who: W.S. Merwin, Carla Faesler
Info: A reading with the current US Poet Laureate. With Mexican poet Carla Faesler, presenting video and projection poems, along with traditional poems. Bi-lingual (English/Spanish) reading.

In addition to the special events, poetry can be found at Biscayne National Park, at Fairchild, at a Miami City Commission Meeting, on abandoned buildings in Miami, by a judge welcoming the daily Jury Pool, and everywhere in between!


O,
Miami is a county-wide poetry festival inaugurating in April 2011. Produced by the of Wynwood and funded by the S. and James L. Knight Foundation, O, Miami is a month-long series of events and projects with the simple goal of every person in Miami-Dade County finding a poem. Mixing traditional readings with innovative poetry-in-public-places projects, the festival will weave poetry into the fabric of the city’s existing infrastructure and cultural life. Events will be conducted in multiple languages, sometimes simultaneously, often in collaboration with other cultural organizations. O, Miami culminates in a four-day series of readings from April 27-30, 2011 at the Frank Gehry-designed New World Symphony Hall on Miami Beach.

O,
Miami’s events include: premier readings across geographical, cultural and linguistic divisions, poetic maps and tours of Miami-Dade County, the first-ever Miami Poet Census, poetry lesson plans and activities in schools, collaborations with local universities, museums, and galleries, poems on menus in restaurants, radio spots of poems in English, Spanish and Creole, poems displayed throughout the Miami-Dade Public Library System, as well as poems displayed in public places both expected and unexpected.

The University of Miami’s Richter Library will house a lasting record of O, Miami in their Special Collections Department at the completion of the festival. Omiami.org, designed by Whitney Biennial 2008 artist David Reinfurt, presents an active digital documentation of our events, activities, and projects.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

COMCAST ANNOUNCES NEW SPANISH-LANGUAGE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

Dedicated Center Will Employ 300 Customer Account Executives in Miramar, Florida

You know, over the last several years, Comcast has been very focused on enhancing their products to deliver the most compelling entertainment experience to the Hispanic community:
- Launching a 50+ channel Spanish-language programming tier that includes access to nearly 700 Hispanic On Demand choices that customers can watch at their convenience
- Introducing a new online destination, something we care a lot about here at gen ñ – www.XfinityTV.com/latinoTV -- with more than 500 video choices in Spanish and thousands more in English
- Offering international calling plans that include flat rates for calls made to countries around the world, with special plans available for Latin America and Mexico
- Launching a Spanish version of SmartZone Communications Center, their online destination where customers can access and control their email, voice mail, Universal Address Book, calendar and program their DVR!
Then this week, came this welcome piece of news, especially important in this South Florida Economy: Comcast announced this week that it will open a Spanish-language Center of Excellence in Miramar, Florida this spring. Once fully operational later in the year, this new center will employ more than 300 customer account executives exclusively dedicated to handling sales calls from Spanish-speaking consumers across the country.

“We’ve been extremely focused on bringing an enhanced entertainment experience to the growing Hispanic community, but just as important is delivering top-notch service,” said Filemon Lopez, Senior Vice President of Comcast’s Florida East Coast Region. “By creating a dedicated Spanish-language Center of Excellence, we can leverage our investments in sophisticated tools and advanced technology, and deliver specific employee training on our unique Hispanic product offerings to deliver a consistently high quality experience to Spanish-speaking consumers.”

Comcast’s move to open the Spanish-language Center of Excellence and create 300 new jobs was applauded by leaders in the state of Florida and the Hispanic community.

“As Governor, I am working to make Florida the No. 1 place for job creation so that successful companies like Comcast will grow and expand in our state,” said Florida Governor Rick Scott. “The diversity of our people and our commitment to giving Florida’s business environment a competitive edge over other states will increase economic opportunities for all Floridians. I applaud Comcast for their investment in Florida’s Spanish-language communities by creating this new call center in Miramar.”

“Throughout the years, Comcast has demonstrated a strong commitment to the Hispanic community, and once again it is taking its commitment to the next level by opening a 300-person Center of Excellence specifically designed to serve Spanish-speaking consumers,” said Javier Palomarez, President and CEO of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. “Comcast stands out in the business community for its understanding of the Hispanic population and should be applauded for this investment.”

According to the 2010 U.S. Census results, the Hispanic population in the United States has surpassed 50 million. Comcast has worked hard to meet the needs and interests of this growing consumer base, including making enhancements to its product suite to make it more compelling. The company has dramatically increased the amount of Spanish-language programming on TV, On Demand and online (www.XfinityTV.com/latinotv) with the launch of Xfinity TV in Spanish, offers international calling plans that make it more affordable to call Latin America and other Spanish-speaking areas and has launched a Spanish version of SmartZone Communications Center, an online destination where customers can access and control their email, voice mail, address book and calendar as well as program their DVR.

The Spanish-language Center of Excellence will officially start to handle customer calls in May and Comcast is currently accepting applications for the more than 300 new customer account executive jobs atwww.comcast.com/careers. To fill these roles, the company is looking for individuals who are bilingual in Spanish and English, and who have at least one to two years of sales experience and a commitment to deliver superior customer service. Comcast offers its employees competitive pay as well as extensive career path options, medical, dental and prescription benefits and discounted Comcast services.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

RIP - to the great, great Mad Dog, Jim Mandich.


"And Marino proves he's a freak!" - my all time fave Jim "MadDog" Mandich call, 95 shoot-out vs. the Pats , balcony doors open, in my first apt. Game on TV, Jim on the Radio. As 'Strokin' played him out, Jim once said, "In the annals of pop music, you've got the Beatles, you've got Bach, you've got Beethoven... and you've got Clarance Carter"
- I'd stay up to the sports wrap up after the new, just so i could see him bite his lip on the 'Ask the Maddog' segment, that smile like the cat that ate the canary. The way he's say, "Lambeau Field, Pro Footballs Valhalla, Chardonay Sippers, Green Lizards, Never Better Baby, Never Better." That man could make my day, with just the tone of his voice. RIP to a real man, a true original and a great guy. Go on Jim, roll your windows down baby.


Saturday, April 23, 2011

A Cuban Dichos app !!!!


Just in time for the Easter get together con el familion tomorrow - created by Gio Gutierrez, (also responsible for a couple of other things we'll be hipping you to in the coming weeks!) - We're here to celebrate this wonderful little Tareco. Shake it up to the sound of dominos on the table - and you get a new word! We love this thing - check it out here by clicking on the pics, or HERE or iTunes asere!

Ever wanted to know what your grandparents were talking about when they mentioned "estas salao" over dominoes? Ever wonder what the newer generation of Cubans were singing in that reggaeton song?

Wonder no more with Cuban Dichos! With hundreds of "dicharachos" and features such as Word of the Day, Search, Random, Share and Bookmark – figuring out what abuela meant is "un jamon".

Features:
• Access over 200 definitions, expressions and phrases from the old and new generation of Cubans
• Search for any word or phrase and receive a list of matching terms
• Get a "Word of the Day" every time you launch the app
• Random word support – tap to view a random phrase
• Search allows you to quickly and easily search for any word in a definition
• Bookmark your favorite sayings for easy access
• Sharing support via SMS and Email
• Experience high-resolution graphics for the newest generation of iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad coupled with music and sound effects
• No annoying advertising

Notes:
• Add your own "dicharachos" at CubanApp.com



Wednesday, April 20, 2011

It's 420 today! So... Cypress Hill !!! (with Pitbull & Marc Anthony!)

t's 420 today! So... Cypress Hill of course! With Pitbull & Marc Anthony, and a little bit of Suite Judy Blue Eyes from CSN :) We LUV this song.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Saturday - is National Record Store Day! INFO here -








INFO RIGHT HERE _ JUST CLICK

Check out this piece from 2 Years Back! Here's Nat where we visit SWEAT Records and the classic Yesterday & Today Records. Go Out Tomorrow & Support Your Local Record Shop!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Calling all LA women.... Nike is kicking off their first ever Digital Race!!!


Hey ya'll... Our friends at Nike are kicking off their first ever digital, all women’s race in Los Angeles called “She Runs LA.”


The race is “digital” in the sense that there isn’t a specific location where the race begins and ends. Rather, after you register to participate, you can run anywhere. Cool, Right?!?!

On April 27 at 4:00 pm, women all over LA are invited to run to complete a 10K (6.2 miles) within 24 hours and sync their run on nikeplus.com using a Nike+ device (IPhone, ITouch, Nike SportsBand). This run is like no other; women all over LA can choose their own location and invite their friends to join the run and the fun!

Afterwards, Nike is throwing a full on Hollywood red carpet bash to celebrate all participants’ 6.2 mile run in style, at the NOKIA Theater in downtown LA on April 28 at 7:00 pm. Nike has pulled out all the stops for a night of show-stopping fun; Red carpet, live musical performances, celebrity and Nike athlete appearances and more.


A portion of the proceeds will be donated to

Students Run LA, a non-profit organization, whose mission is to increase access to the sport of running for underserved youth across LA Unified School District.

Below are all the details:

· Register for She Runs LA event at signmeup.com/sherunsla and find out more at www.sherunsla.com.

Free movie passes to Fast Five, for our Generation ñ peeps!







Oye mi gente .....we are giving away free passes to the South Florida screening of the movie, Fast Five.


Each pass allows two people.... But remember it is a first come first serve basis.... There will be a live Simulcast of Red Carpet arrivals from Rio de Janeiro followed by the screening!!! Red Carpet treatment for our people. So be sure to arrive early.....


Here is a bit on what Fast Five is all about.Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) lead a reunion of returning all-stars from every chapter of the explosive franchise built on speed in Fast Five. In this installment, former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) joins returning favorites Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster), Tej Parker (Ludacris), Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson), Han Lue (Sung Kang), Gisele Harabo (Gal Gadot), Vince (Matt Schulze), Tego (Tego Calderon), and Rico (Don Omar) for this ultimate high-stakes race.

Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom. As they assemble their elite team of top racers, the unlikely allies know their only shot of getting out for good means confronting the corrupt businessman who wants them dead. But he's not the only one on their tail.

Hard-nosed federal agent Luke Hobbs never misses his target. When he is assigned to track down Dom and Brian, he and his strike team launch an all-out assault to capture them. But as his men tear through Brazil, Hobbs learns he can't separate the good guys from the bad. Now, he must rely on his instincts to corner his prey ... before someone else runs them down first.