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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Whoa Music News Chief Keef's sentencing: The view from the courtroom
Posted by Leor Galil on 01.17.13 at 05:49 PM
And yet the scene inside the Cook County Juvenile Court Building was fairly modest; a group mostly made up of journalists, legal professionals, and Keef's family filled three wooden benches in a small, off-white courtroom. The room's sparse decor—a clock on one wall, a calendar on the other, and a droopy American flag behind Judge Carl Anthony Walker's seat—was hardly reminiscent of the lavish lifestyle Keef enjoys rapping about. The rapper himself walked in wearing a navy-blue sweatshirt and sweatpants that bore the letters JTDC ("Juvenile Temporary Detention Center") instead of his usual Louis Vuitton and Salvatore Ferragamo gear.
Outside the courtroom he has an outsize, violent persona, but inside he was a 17-year-old who goes by Keith Cozart. Lately the online conversation about Keef has focused on white cultural tourism via violent music by African-Americans, but it didn't come up in the conversations among cops and court officers that I overhead in the courtroom prior to Judge Walker's entrance—I heard more about young Chicagoans who are grappling with real violence. In the courtroom Cozart's rap career was almost of no consequence—except for the fact that it was used as evidence to keep him behind bars (and a reason to let him go).
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Whoa Film James Ransone in Broken City: Barely onscreen and barely restrained
Posted by Ben Sachs on 01.16.13 at 03:36 PM
Whoa Media Film Music Life Is but a Dream: Beyonce as Deleuze
Posted by Drew Hunt on 01.16.13 at 02:32 PM
As detailed in a recent interview with GQ, Beyonce appears hell-bent on documenting every single moment of her waking life. Stored in what writer Amy Wallace calls the "official Beyoncé archive," a "temperature-controlled digital-storage facility," is "virtually every existing photograph of her . . . every interview she's ever done; every video of every show she's ever performed; every diary entry she's ever recorded while looking into the unblinking eye of her laptop." The majority of the film is purportedly culled from this archive, which is also said to include "thousands of hours of private footage, compiled by a 'visual director' Beyonce employs who has shot practically her every waking moment, up to sixteen hours a day, since 2005."
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Seriously? Whoa News Reader exclusive: A Google chat with Kim Jong-un
Posted by Kate Schmidt on 01.09.13 at 02:19 PM
- Hello to the American middle west!
Yong-sun: OK, here is the dear leader.
me: Good morning, Mr. Marshal of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Jong-un: Greetings, cousin of Eric.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
RIP Whoa Music News Cal's closes its doors on New Year's Day
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on 12.27.12 at 10:32 AM
Thursday, December 20, 2012
On Video Whoa Film The trashy brilliance of Trailer War
Posted by Miles Raymer on 12.20.12 at 03:38 PM
But the moments that deliver this kind of transcendence tend to come amid a whole lot of straight-up awfulness. You generally have to wade through a lot of shit before you get to the jet pack fight or whatever.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Whoa News Merchandise Mart execs still at large after daring escape
Posted by Steve Bogira on 12.19.12 at 02:30 PM
- Richard A. Chapman/Sun-Times Media
- The Merchandise Mart, scene of this morning's dramatic escape
The execs, whom police described as stocky middle-aged white men dressed in pinstripes and wingtips, apparently rappelled down the building's southern facade from a second-floor window on a rope of heavyweight garland, which had been serving as office decoration. Authorities were uncertain how the men managed to get out the window, which is only five feet wide.
The execs were last seen in their office during an 8 AM conference call. Two hours later, a secretary noticed that two figures hunched in front of computers in corner offices were mannequins, and employees realized their CEO and CFO were AWOL. Police believe the mannequins were stolen from the adjacent Apparel Mart.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Whoa Two Wheels Can you stop a bike from getting nicked?
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 11.07.12 at 06:00 PM
- David Hawgood
- Sitting ducks
As far as I'm concerned, that extra attention helps keep my bike in my possession and out of the hands of a bike thief. Just this morning I considered locking it to the racks outside the building, but ultimately decided against it. I've been warned and warned again that thieves will chop or bash through cable locks, U-locks, and chain locks to get at a bike. Basically, it's just waiting to get stolen.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Whoa Music More Ono! Releases, reissues, and shows from the art-rock locals
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on 10.25.12 at 02:00 PM
Monday, October 15, 2012
Whoa The Internet Music Today in surprisingly nonracist YouTube videos
Posted by Miles Raymer on 10.15.12 at 02:30 PM
To my surprise and relief, Sister Deborah turned out not to be a racist nun, but rather a Ghanaian pop singer, and "Uncle Obama's Banana" is not yet another piece of depressingly common right-wing hatemongering but a fun and funky pop song that is very literally about a girl buying bananas to feed her monkey and definitely doesn't have any sort of highly suggestive subtext and what are you even talking about?
Enjoy after the jump.
