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My birthday jam (video)

Posted on July 6, 2007 by

Click To Play My awesome friend Will posted this dimly lit footage of my birthday dance jam at our weekly lindy hop dance "Frim Fram." The dance jam is a traditional in the lindy hop and other social dance communities to celebrate birthdays, weddings, and other big events in people’s lives.  The birthday boy/girl (or…

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Nice article in Publishers Weekly on Frankie Manning viral marketing campaign

Posted on July 1, 2007 by

There’s a cool story in the trade publication Publisher’s Weekly about the viral marketing campaign that I coordinated for the launch of the book Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop.  I got some nice quotes in this piece by Gayle Feldman, talking about how we managed to get Frankie’s book from #22,000 to #7 on…

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“For Dancers Only”: Why Jelly Roll pwns my lindy hop @$$

Posted on July 1, 2007 by

Image by Swifty Every once in awhile I get a bit discouraged about the lindy hop scene in New York.  As the fertile ground where swing jazz and swing dance was innovated and developed during the 1930s and 40s, today the modern swing musician and dancer has few places where they can get their groove…

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Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2007 Winners: The Brooklyn Bombshells!

Posted on June 27, 2007May 4, 2019 by

=Well, the powers that be at Coney Island’s official website seem to be taking their sweet time posting the official results on the main Mermaid Parade page.  But one of the moderators managed to get this onto their discussion boards, so I’m assuming these results are official.  I’m going to repost them here, in case…

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Google ranks my Mermaid Parade post as #2?

Posted on June 25, 2007May 4, 2019 by

For some reason my previous post “Mermaid Parade 2007: So Long and Thanks for the Fish” is #2 on Google search right now. And the Mermaid Parade flickr group started by my friend RubyMae is #6.  Given the thousands of people who were there and taking pictures and blogging, it’s weird that we would be…

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Mermaid Parade 2007: So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Posted on June 24, 2007May 4, 2019 by

My friends Tomo, Sammy and Beckto So yet another, and possibly the last, Coney Island Mermaid Parade is history, and I have to say this was perhaps my favorite of all the ones I’ve ever been to.  The weather was just perfect: breezy, cool, and sunny.  The crowds were immense and incredibly positive and festive….

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Cindy in a music video!

Posted on June 24, 2007 by

A couple of months ago, my girlfriend Cindy was asked to be a dancer in a music video for an indie band unpronouncably named "!!!" or "ChkChkChk." Finally, months later, the video has come out. Cindy, being the down-to-earth girl that she is, had pretty realistic expectations of her appearance, or lack thereof, in the…

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The 25th Annual Mermaid Parade is this Saturday!

Posted on June 21, 2007May 3, 2019 by

This Saturday is the 25th annual Mermaid Parade at Coney Island, my all-time favorite New York event of the year.  The Mermaid Parade is a celebration of all things bizarre, silly and fringey about New York, ostensibly to fete the opening of Coney Island for the summer season, but really just an excuse to dress…

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Yehoodi Talk Show #417: Evita talks about being on “So You Think You Can Dance”

Posted on June 20, 2007 by

Evita Arce fromSo You Think You Can Dance The latest episode of my lindy hop podcast the "Yehoodi Talk Show" has been posted by my partner Spuds today.  We chatted with our pal Evita Arce about her experiences competing on the Fox TV show "So You Think You Can Dance." We are so proud of…

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Jamie Sue on why she loves blues dancing

Posted on June 17, 2007 by

My friend Jamie Sue, on the swing dance website that I administer, made an eloquent statement about why she loves dancing to the blues. I have to quote it in its entirety: I love blues. Blues music reflects a lot of my life view. It lives big and loud. It’s passionate and large. It’s about…

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