The photo is Cory Booker who is the wonder kind Obama like incumbent mayor of Newark - and the one the  people have attached their hopes to. It is one of the poorest postal codes in the USA. Brick city.

The video is from the artifakts who were coming out of Newark New Jersey in 1991 with this one. On top of rhyming they were also writing all over the train yards and all those things the kids still do today…

This last video is from the film clockers that documented the suffocating project life of Newark in 1995, and as most of you know an instant spike lee classic. Harsh. Based on the 1992 novel by Richard Price who deals almost singularly in cop crime new york grit pulp. You have to love the score by New Orleans’ own jazzman Terrence Blanchard.

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a eulogy from the getto boys…

and the incomparable one… who also passed too soon. mr. marvin gaye takes us to church.

You got a couple of long haired chaps riding around the streets of LA in an ice cream truck spreading the good word like it might have been a bus packed with all the good sounds of olden day and future time Jamaica. Black Shakespeare is the name of the thing. Capital D destiny…

Clip vidéo par Michel Gondry de la chanson de Jean-François Coen, La Tour de Pise… Poétique, musicalement et visuellement.

As the saying goes, Saint Paddy’s is the day that everyone is Irish. We at CitySpk also like to think that it is the day when the liquor puts a certain greenish hue to the whole damn world. So if someone asks you how you are, tell them that you are grand. And more to the point, so bloody godamned grand that it is all coming at you in green flashes… we raise our glasses to you, with a smattering of selections from our copious photo bank. ta.

From the young lad Eamon MacMahon. The Green Mill Lounge in Chicago, where “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn used to haunt.

And from the man with Hiberno-Lebanese roots that go so far back his ancestors never even made it to Ireland — Ghassan Fayad.

Some shots of the St. Patrick’s pub in Vieux Québec — the third most common entry point of Irish to N.A. during the Great Famine (after Boston and New York).

Saint-Valentine is coming soon. It is the the time of the year for sending out love messages again! The CitySPK community did not wait for that occasion, and has actually been sending love every day.
This year, you too should say it with CitySPK!

Those of you who get Bravo! on cable might already be familiar with Snapshot, a documentary series celebrating innovative photographers. On this December 11th at 8pm, don’t miss the special episode on Eamon MacMahon. You’ll get to see the man behind the lens and behind many of our photos. Also hear about the creative process behind CitySPK. Don’t miss it, and don’t forget to check out Eamon’s profile on CitySPK.

Did you know you can add CitySPK to your browser’s search bar? Simply add “Write a message in CitySPK” by clicking on the the search box menu. OpenSearch, a format supported by many browsers and widgets, allows you to start typing messages directly, anytime. Our team of programmers is full of surprises.

A week has already gone by and many of you have been testing our Beta site and sending us comments. A few days ago, our collaborator Eamon MacMahon has started his West-Coast journey. Over the next weeks, he will be adding Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas to our list of cities. As you can see, Vancouver, London and Toronto are about to be completed. Just a few more missing glyphs and they’ll be released. By the way, we are looking for another letter “Z” from London. So for any of you in Great Britain, get your camera and shoot.