Re: PHH: Friday night Party!

PHH List hijack alert - for a good reason -

Party - tonite - 378 Hillside Avenue - Hartford (hillside and New
Britain Ave)

Featuring a noise permit with loud speakers, a tent, a keg of heineken,
and lots of food, plus salsa, dominoes and more.

Why? Wildaliz's brother Pedro is going to the American Film Institute in
LA in two weeks, so we're saying goodbye and sending him to the Promised
Land.

Hope to see you tonite - starting at 7 pm and going until whenever...

Peace,
Ken K.

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PHH: Tranquility Base here, the Walter has landed

This week, in the Summer of Death, we remember Trusty old Walter Cronkite, a Trusted American hero because he was one of the first men to walk on the moon 40 years ago, along with Lance Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Lightyear.  Walter's legendary first words on the moon, "Oh Boy!" will forever go down in history, along with the four (4) other YouTube clips that exist of him: the shooting of JFK, calling for negotiations in Viet Nam, that Three Mile Island thing, and the shooting of "JFK" by Oliver Stone.  Most notably, however, "Uncle Walter" (so nicknamed because he was your mother's brother) will be remembered as proof that you didn't have to be pretty like Brian Williams and Sam Donaldson to get on the Nightly News.

So who ordered Walter Cronkite to go to the moon?  As much as everybody believes it was the 1950s prophet and bus driver Ralph Kramden, who famously said, "One of these days, Alice...bang, zoom!  To the Moon!", it wasn't.   Why, it was really President JFK Kennedy himself, oddly enough!  In a speech he gave with a microphone nearby, he said "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thing, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."   Here's my question: What was that 'other thing' Kennedy wanted to do anyway?  The answer is probably Marilyn Monroe, because Kennedy was a famous pervert.

So just as skirt-chaser JFK called on us to get the hell off his planet and go to the moon, I call on all of you to go to Kenny's Spaceport and Red Rock Cantina, tonight at 9:30 pm, Standard Moon Time.  We'll recall where we all were on the 40th anniversary of man first deciding that the Moon was a pretty desolate place, and maybe we should blast off that rock and get back to Hawai'i.  Of course, it's a New Moon this week, so we won't be able to see the damn thing anyway.  But hey, there will plenty of beverages and fried things from some far-out people!    We'll plan to fake a planet landing to lift America's spirits, just like they faked the Moon Landing!  Maybe...Neptune?  Yeah, let's say Neptune, since the governor of California has already been to Mars.

But before that, remember to join Capitol Cinema Collective for Kino Kafé at La Paloma Sabanera for the documentary Diamonds in the Rough at 7:30!

--Gene Kranz

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KINO KAFE: JULY 21 - DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH

Join Capitol Cinema Collective, Tuesday July 21st at 7:30pm for Kino Kafé at La Paloma Sabanera for the amazing documentary Diamonds in the Rough

Diamonds in the Rough (USA, 2007, 72 min.) - A documentary feature that explores the emergence of hip hop in Uganda as a tool for social change in Uganda and beyond. Narrated by Michael Franti, it tells a gripping story of the way that Ugandan rappers risk political reprisals by creating anthemic rhymes that tell the stories of the victims of the bloody civil war and the long, corrupt reign of Uganda's political leaders.

Review from BoingBoing.net's Cory Doctorow:

Diamonds in the Rough is a fantastic documentary about the role that hip-hop is playing in organizing the anti-war/anti-poverty movement in Uganda. Narrated by Michael Franti, it tells an gripping story of the way that Ugandan rappers risk political reprisals by creating anthemic rhymes that tell the stories of the victims of the bloody civil war and the long, increasingly corrupt reign of Musoveni. 

Diamonds in the Rough was the closing night film for the 2008 Hartford International Film Festival. CCC appreciates this film so much that we are honored to rescreen it as part of the now monthly Kino Kafé screening series. Kino Kafe is a free film series, and is the first project of the Capitol Cinema Collective. It has been a wildly successful venture. Kino Kafe is a welcoming environment where anyone can sign up to be a curator and screen a film of their choice. Over the years we've shown classics, documentaries, art-house darlings, short films, anthologies, experimental pieces, French action films, Japanese & Brazilian horror films and just about everything in between.

La Paloma Sabanera Coffeehouse is located at 405 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT.

-Helder

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