Manhattan is a city divided by power: uptown thrives and strengthens on electricity and wifi and artisanal cheese, while downtown grows meaner and leaner with each passing day in the dark. There are 1.6 million coexisting on 23 square miles with a clear, dangerous divide between them, and power likely won’t return until the weekend. The center cannot hold. Chaos is imminent. And so we ask: Who will win the inevitable Uptown-Down Civil War of 2012?
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Offerpop Tumblr: The Week’s 6 Must-Reads for Social Marketers
If there’s one thing we’ve learned putting this list together every week, it’s that social marketing never slows down. Having a hard time keeping up with the news and advice? No problem.
Here again are the week’s 6 must-reads in social marketing.
1. 21 Awesome Social Media Facts,…
“What’s forever?”
“My sisters.”
MAJOR CONGRATULATIONS to Sky Dylan-Robbins and Jessica Bennett on their nomination for a James Beard Foundation Award in Visual Storytelling. Their marvelous selected videos for STORYBOARD are a feast for the eyes, ears and stomach, and includes the above piece starting Paul and Myself as The Way We Ate!
#ipromisedmyselfiwouldntcry!!!NO FUN GABY DUNN: Happy Chanukkah: Top 5 Cute Jews From the Maccabeats Video
Listen, I went to a secular hedonistic homo-loving feel-goodery for college. I dated an Irish Catholic who I lived with IN SIN for two years. Turkey and cheese sandwiches complete me.
But I have to admit it. These Yeshiva University boys singing about Chanukkah are literally everything I want in…
Manhattan’s Impending Uptown-Downtown Civil War: Who Will Win?
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Here’s a production still from the new Hunger Games movie. Kidding! Totally kidding: this is what the (second block of a six-block) line for one of the three Brooklyn - Manhattan shuttle buses looked like, as of about an hour ago. If you’re not walking to work today you’re probably not getting in. [photo by Virginia Laird]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcteu13O271rk5d6vo1_500.jpg)
Here’s a production still from the new Hunger Games movie. Kidding! Totally kidding: this is what the (second block of a six-block) line for one of the three Brooklyn - Manhattan shuttle buses looked like, as of about an hour ago. If you’re not walking to work today you’re probably not getting in. [photo by Virginia Laird]
IAS team member, Keenan, is currently running a Kickstarter Campaign in hopes of funding his next album (for his electro-pop project, Declan’s Well). If you’re into that sort of thing, please stop by and consider contributing and being a part of this creative effort!
Sleep & Awake - Darkened Light EP
Sleep and Awake has released a new EP titled Darkened Light which can be best described as sounding like ‘happy heartbreak’. The opening track, ‘Twisted Seams’, sets the tone immediately with the three things that make this EP so easy to grasp onto: strong melody, lush instrumentation, and honest lyrics. The upbeat, melodic instrumentation coupled with introspective, personal lyrics strikes a perfect balance between songs that are both ‘radio friendly’ and easily relatable.
