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WILL.I.AM’s remix of Barack Obama’s “Yes We Can” Speech
Ladies and gentleman, call it superficial if you want to, but Barack Obama has truly galvanized a movement. As an academic, i’ve been trained to be endlessly cynical and suscipious of mainstream politics and popular culture, but in the moments when these two genres furiously collide I cant help but be interested. I agree with [...]
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I get tons of emails from people asking to see footage of me walking balls. Well, thanks to my buddy Andre Chanel (Ball DVD-man-extraordinaire) here’s a look at “Frank Mizrahi” in action last year: P.O.C.C. Ball 2007 Father Kamaro Blahnik vs. Frank Mizrahi Grand Prize: Frank Mizrahi .. Rags to Riches (Chicago) 2006 Popeye Escada (OTY Chicago) vs. Frank Mizrahi [...]
Head over to the “hot photos” section of canwebefrank.com for over 2,000 candid shots of your favorite b-boyz, ballerz, and other assorted flavas. Are you interested in publishing these images in your magazine or book? Do Want to know more about house ball culture? Send Frank Leon Roberts an email at frankroberts@nyu.edu.
Well folks, here we are again: back to the beginning. Over the course of the next few weeks and months, you’ll see www.canwebefrank.com continue to transform itself, adding on new features, and tweeking things here and there. In its current incarnation, the site features special sections like the “what is performance studies?” series and the [...]
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canwebefrank.com is the creation of Frank Leon Roberts, a Brooklyn-based writer and cultural critic. An honors graduate of NYU in 2004 (B.A. in English and African American Studies) and in 2005 (M.A. in Performance Studies), he is currently completing a PH.D. in Ethnic Studies (Performance Studies). A New York City native, his work has been published in The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle, and YO!Magazine, among others.
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