Meet United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar THomas

United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY went toe to toe with the New York Police Department. An activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement, Thomas voiced his opinions of the NYPD police brutality that had and has been plaguing the #OWS movement.

Thomas is a 24-year-old Marine Veteran (2 tours in Iraq), he currently plays amateur football and is in college.

Thomas comes from a long line of people who sacrifice for their country: Mother, Army Veteran (Iraq), Step father, Army, active duty (Afghanistan), Grand father, Air Force veteran (Vietnam), Great Grand Father Navy veteran (World War II).

JC Penney - Beware of the Doghouse

Its all for the love

Audrick Style has officiallly launched

Jayda Audrick is having a launch party for her new launch of www.audrickstyle.com at the Saint James Boutique located at 1045 madison Avenue between 6-8:00 pm.

Don't forget to RSVP.

New York Comic Con comes to the Big Apple

You can find out more at www.nycomiccon.com

PS1 Summer Warm up starts this week

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is proud to announce their 10th anniversary of Warm Up, the critically acclaimed series of live music and DJ acts that has become one of New York’s most exciting and anticipated summer events. This year’s Warm Up will be housed in an urban farmland, P.F.1 (Public Farm One), featuring live and blossoming vegetation created by the winners of the 2008 Young Architects Program, WORK Architecture Company.

For the Warm Up 2008 line-up, check it out on their website.

Started Jul 5th - Sep 6th
Address: 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY, NY

Definitely worth the experience if you haven't been to it.

Telectroscope in UK

Imagine being able to see the other side of the world through the eye of a telectroscope? Well the folks from Artichoke has created this window of opportunity for the folks in London (Tower Bridge) and New York (Brooklyn Bridge).

If you around either cities, make sure you check it out.
This is available from May 22nd - June 15.

Check out the story about Paul St George and Alexander Stanhope St George who were the inventors of this visual amplifier.

The picture below is a blowtorch discovered when the transatlantic tunnel was reopened a few years ago.

The Rulers Back and Free

After doing time for 5+ years in the joint for attempted murder, Slick Rick aka Ricky Walters aka Rick the Ruler was granted a pardon from NY Governor David Paterson. He almost got deported back to his home country - United Kingdom, luckily his lawyers came through and was able to put this under the water. The attempt to murder his cousin and another man back in '91 almost ruined his career. Was it worth it? We may hear it in his next album, stay tuned.

Lesson learned today: "Anger would just make life not enjoyable, you know what I mean?" - Slick Rick