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5th Annual Chihuahua Races
Scientists capture giant squid on camera
TOKYO - When a nearly 20-foot long tentacle was hauled aboard his research ship, Tsunemi Kubodera knew he had something big. Then it began sucking on his hands. But what came next excited him most — hundreds of photos of a purplish-red sea monster doing battle 3,000 feet deep.
It was a rare giant squid, a creature that until then had eluded observation in the wild.
Kubodera’s team captured photos of the 26-foot-long beast attacking its bait, then struggling for more than four hours to get free. The squid pulled so hard on the line baited with shrimp that it severed one of its own tentacles.
“ Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep”
Fran Lebowitz
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CELEBRATE BROOKLYN!
Thursday, June 25, 7:00 P.M.
Femi Kuti & The Positive Force / Melvin Gibbs’ Elevated Entity
The Afrobeat pioneer Femi Kuti, backed by his band The Positive Force, will return to Celebrate Brooklyn to turn the Bandshell into a giant Nigerian dance party. The New York Times has championed as the group’s music as “thick, musky Afro-funk—a polyrhythmic elaboration on James Brown’s late-1960s sound—with lyrics that focus on government oppression and the problems of modern Africans.” The evening will begin with a performance by Brooklyn-born Melvin Gibbs, whom Time Out NY has deemed “the best bassist in the world.” Gibbs will showcase his Elevated Entity project, which is something of a downtown NYC supergroup and continues Gibbs’ exploration of African diaspora music with a fusion of Afro-Brazilian rhythms, funk and rap.
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An important documentary at Film Forum for a limited time. Opens tonight.
Hear about it on The Brian Lehrer show podcast for Tuesday, June 9th. Free through iTunes.
Lykke Li “Breaking It Up”
makes me want to get a group of people out on the streets to dance…..
