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Jan 9, 2009 | 3:53 PM PST
Tags: whats , happening , classic , old , retro , rerun , re-run , dance , dancing , show , video , pop , lock , locking
This is a classic retro video featuring Rerun from What's Happening dancing from various episodes. He was very talented.
RIP Fred.
Nov 28, 2008 | 7:55 PM PST
Tags: retro , classic , old school , old , tv , opening , credits , darkwing , duck , television , disney , cartoon
This is the opening to the classic Disney Cartoon Darkwing Duck. This was one of my favorites growing up. Enjoy.
Nov 21, 2008 | 8:05 PM PST
Tags: babyface , whip , appeal , whipappeal , classic , retro , old school , old , music , video , song
This is a classic video of an old school Babyface music video for his song Whip Appeal. Enjoy.
Oct 23, 2008 | 6:06 PM PST
Tags: classic , retro , old , opening , teenage , mutant , ninja , turtles , cartoon , 80s , show , theme , music
This is the opening to the classic 80's cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There have been many versions after this but this show was the best one. It had the catchy theme music.
Sep 24, 2008 | 6:24 PM PST
Tags: tmd , king drell , batman , classic , retro , tv , show , adam west , old , school , video , week
The classic video of the week comes from the old Batman series that starred Adam West. This show was on in the 60s and is still copied by a lot of people today. Until next week this is King Drell signing out.
TMD Bitches!!!
Sep 16, 2008 | 12:47 PM PST
Tags: legend of zelda , retro , old , classic , commercial , nes , nintendo , rap , tmd , king drell
This Is an old commercial from the 80's of the original Legend of Zelda video game on the NES. This was back when everyone was trying to rap in commercials. I'm kind of glad that is over with. Until next week, this is King Drell signing out.
TMD Bitches!!!
May 30, 2008 | 12:30 PM PST
Tags: Old , Dubai , Bastakiya , Historic , History , Culture , Tradition , UAE
A traditional wind tower is seen on top of a building, in the old quarter of Dubai’s Bastakiya.
KHADIJA
AHMAD and her family are the only residents left in Dubai’s old
Bastakiya quarter, her house little changed since she arrived as a new
bride more than 70 years ago.
Nestled among mushrooming skyscrapers and multi-lane highways, the rabbit warren of streets dating from the 1890s is one of the few reminders left of Dubai’s past as a sleepy village where people earned money by diving for pearls.
In the 1990s, the government bought out most homeowners in Bastakiya to protect the run-down district from developers.
Today, the area beside Dubai creek is home to galleries, cafes and restaurants, and to Ahmad and her family who declined the state’s offer to buy them out. “Fifteen years ago, they moved everyone out. Thank God, we were able to stay,” said Ahmad, standing just inside her front door, out of sight of male passers-by.
In less than 60 years, the UAE’s hub has become a byword for ostentatious wealth, speckled with one jaw-dropping development after another, like a set of islands shaped like palm trees and the sail-shaped Burj Al Arab hotel.
But Emirates officials have begun to wake up to the value of Dubai’s historic sites, partly reflecting a popular demand for tangible links to a fast disappearing past, and partly because of the realisation that history can boost tourism.
“We have to have our culture and traditions to show to others,” said Waleed Nabil, 22, an Emirati who works at the Shaikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding in Bastakiya. “We have to be able to show schoolchildren how their grandparents lived or we will lose our culture.”
Rashad Bukhash, director of the architectural heritage department at Dubai municipality, understands that need. “We do have pressure to have the land developed ... But we have vowed to keep (Bastakiya) as it is and the government supports this,” he said.
His department is trying to register old Dubai, which includes Bastakiya, the grand market and Al Shindagha, a complex centred on the home of Shaikh Saeed Al Maktoum, as a UNESCO world heritage site. “It is to protect them from demolition and also for future generations,” Bukhash said.
Bastakiya, which measures about 300 metres by 200 metres, is named after Bastak, an Iranian town that was home to the earliest traders with Dubai. “In 1950, this area was the whole town of Dubai,” Bukhash said. “Now it is less than one per cent of the total area of urban Dubai, so we will protect this one per cent.”
Mar 4, 2008 | 9:07 PM PST
Tags: february , events , old , sacramento , sac , downtown , jazz , music , concert
FRI., Feb. 8, 6pm–8:30pm JAM SESSION for TJYBF participants and clinicians at RoundTable Pizza in Rosement area (9138 Kiefer Blvd., Sac.). TJYBF Web site.
SAT., Feb. 9, TJYBF — the 3rd annual Traditional Jazz Youth Band Festival at Sac. State University. 8 am – 5 pm Concert and awards at 7 p.m. Featured clinician:
EDDIE ERICKSON. TJYBF website.
SUN., Feb. 10, Noon-5 pm, "Jazz Sunday," Dante Club.
EDDIE ERICKSON, banjo/guitar, from Monterey, CA
and BOB DRAGA, clarinet, from Largo, FL.
Eddie Erickson's website Bob Draga's website
TUES., Feb. 26, 7 pm, TJYBF Fundraiser Sac., CA
Christ Unity Church, 9249 Folsom Blvd. (at La Riviera Dr.)
EAST COAST ALL-STARS in concert, one night only,
featuring Wycliffe Gordon (tbn) and Houston Person (sax)
along with Ed Polcer (tpt), Joe Ascione (dr), John Cocuzzi (p/vb), and Richard Simon (b). Flier and musician profiles.
Click here to buy tickets online, or buy them at STJS Office.
6 pm reception with musicians for "Patron" ticket buyers.
Large dance floor at the back of the hall. Click on poster:
