Archive for January 20th, 2009
Michelle Obama Wears Cubana Designer for Inauguration
9:12 pm By Maegan La Mala · Fashion|Obama inauguration · Comments Off
20 Jan 2009
What are people paying more attention to than the politics? The fashion pues! Michelle Obama chose Cubana designer Isabel Toledo to wear for the inauguration earlier today.
Toledo, a New York designer who immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba when she was eight, didn’t know that Obama picked her outfit until watching the TV and told the Times that 13 people worked on clothes—”Chinese ladies, Polish ladies, Spanish ladies”—and added, “We’re all grateful for this opportunity, and we don’t even have a PR person!”
I met Isabel Toledo and her husband last year at an event for El Museo del Barrio and they definitely are cutting edge even if Mrs. Obama’s dress was vintage looking.
I liked Michelle Obama’s dress. Did you?
Watching the Inauguration with WhatZup! of Corona, Queens, NYC
3:10 pm By Maegan La Mala · New York City|Obama inauguration · Comments Off
20 Jan 2009
I didn’t want to watch the historic inauguration of Obama with my toddler in my living room. I wanted to be surrounded by people. I wanted to have a sense of what different sectors of the community were feeling and tap into that feeling. After all, I watched Barack Obama accept the Democratic Nomination for the presidency surrounded by people who had a sense of the moment in history pero also how much work we still needed to do.
WhatZup! A community organization of residents in and around Lefrak City in Corona, Queens hosted an inauguration watch party inside St. Paul, the Apostle Roman Catholic Church. I grew up in Corona, Queens and had my first sleepovers inside the huge Lefrak City housing complex. I walked 15 minutes in the cold pero was greeted and welcomed by warm people.
Obama’s inauguration speech
1:03 pm By la Macha · US Presidential Race 2008 · 1 Comment
20 Jan 2009In case you missed the Obama speech, here is part of it–read the full thing here.
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far–reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.
These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land — a nagging fear that America’s decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.
Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America — they will be met.
Read the rest of it here.
Welcome: President Barack Obama
12:46 pm By la Macha · US Presidential Race 2008 · 1 Comment
20 Jan 2009
Un Zapatazo to Say Adios to Bush
20 Jan 2009
One more thing antes que Presidente Obama steps up: Casa Mala’s shoe throwing tribute for outgoing Bush.
Un zapatazo en contra de todas la guerras, not just the ones overseas, pero also the ones within and against communities here in the U.S. For New Orleans, the fronteras, the barrios, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Un zapatazo con tacon for Oscar Grant, Marcelo Lucero, all of those raided by ICE, all the children separated from their parents, for those young men of color sent to the front lines, for all those without health insurance and papers. For all those behind walls: prison walls, border walls, walls of poverty.
Time to feel my feet on the ground and dig into the earth with my toes and walk and work.
Throw your shoe up on your site and link to the shoe throwing throwdown at My Ecdysis.
Spencer Tunick: “I feel more comfortable in Mexico”
7:51 am By Maegan La Mala · Arts|Culture|mexico · Comments Off
20 Jan 2009
Famed U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick, known mostly for staging massive shots of naked people in public places, says he feels more comfortable working in Mexico than in the U.S. because of the open-mindedness of the people.
“Mexico made me grow as an artist, and gave me the confidence to work with more than 25,000 people,” said the New York photographer Spencer Tunick upon announcing that in April he will open an exhibition at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco [Mexico City].“In this country I feel more comfortable than in the United States because Mexicans are more open to new experiences. You can dialogue with them, something that doesn’t happen in Texas,” he said.
Back in 2007, Tunick met with opposition when he wanted to shoot at the Teotituacan ruins near Mexico City. He later opted to work in the city’s massive main square, El Zócalo, and at artist Frida Kahlo’s home, la Casa Azúl.
Tunick’s new exhibit won’t be of his typical multitudinous compositions but instead of portraits he made of individual Mexican models.
Via / Crónica
Oops! Jill Biden Spills the Beans
7:36 am By Maegan La Mala · Chismes|Controversia|Funny|Politics · Comments Off
20 Jan 2009Well I’m guessing Hillary isn’t too happy with this:
Did you see how red Joe Biden got? Talk about loose lips sink ships.
Jill Biden said on the Oprah show that she wanted her husband to be vice president instead of secretary of state, chiefly because it would involve less travel.“If you’re secretary of state, you’ll be away, we’ll never see you, you know,” she said, describing how she and her husband had talked about it.
“I’ll see you at a state dinner once and awhile. But I said, if you are vice president, the entire family, because they worked so hard for the election, they can be involved. They can come to our home. They can go to events, they can be with us all the time. And that’s what’s important to us,” she said.
Biden, seated at his wife’s side, looked sheepish and tried to shush his wife after she made the remark.
So the scenario looks like it played out like this: Obama asked Biden which job he wanted, and Hillary got sloppy seconds. Damn.
Hola!
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