This Week In Hip-Hop (DCist) bi13672433 Purple St. James Tuesday: Today kicks off the Hip- Theater Festival 's seventh year D.C. The opening "Brave New Voices" event take place at the Kennedy Center 's Millennium Stage and feature Sonia Sanchez along the D.C. WritersCorps Slam Team. Free, 6 p.m. For more information about Festival events and ticket availability, visit calendar . Probably ..

NEWS: ???Hip-Hop Mayor??? Accused Of Cheating W/ More Women (SOHH) bi13672433 Written By Brandi per Detroit Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, coined by the press as the???Hip- Mayor,??? sinking deeper legal troubles

Senior Citizens Learning to Fall Like a Skydiver Can Reduce Hip Fractures by bi13672433 July 7, 2008 - Senior citizens could reduce risk of hip fracture by nearly 70 percent they learn to fall like skydivers, new research from the University of Michigan suggests

Noted poet-playwright headlines spoken-word, hip-hop event at UW (The Capital bi13672433 Poet, playwright and political activist Amiri Baraka open the third annual Spoken Word and Hip- Educator's Institute a special reading Monday night at the Union Theater on the University of Wisconsin campus. Born Leroi Jones 1934 Newark, N.J., Baraka the author of more than 40 books and was the founder of the Black Arts Movement Harlem the 1960s. One of most ..

Hip hop symposium promises fun message on violence (Modesto Bee) bi13672433 Give them hip , and they come

iPhone waiting not so hip (yet) on Fifth Ave. (CNET) bi13672433 The new iPhone 3G getting buzzed about, sure. But there aren't crowds forming at the New York flagship store, despite the presence of a local TV station

Orthopedists to discuss impediments fitness goals (Marin Independent Journal) bi13672433 Ortedic experts conduct a free seminar, "Is Hip, Ankle and Foot Pain Interfering Your Fitness Goals?..

Amiri Baraka launches Spoken Word 'amp;amp; Hip Hop Educator's Institute at U bi13672433 Amiri Baraka, born Everett LeRoi Jones, a world renowned speaker, writer, poet, playwright and activist, and considered the founding father of the Black Arts movement. He addressed the 300-plus crowd at the Union Theatre on Monday a brief lecture, and followed a reading of several poems and a closing question-and-answer session. Throughout the event, thunderclaps from the storm ..

New Music: Flying Lotus [ft. Lil Wayne]: "Robo Tussin" [MP3/Stream] (Pitchfork) bi13672433 As Lil Wayne 's endless parade of guest verses wasn't enough, recently the New Orleans rapper has been showing up on other artists' tracks even having to come up fresh lean-assisted verbiage. In the tradition of David Banner's newish " Shawty Say ", Los Angeles' Flying Lotus , aka Steven Ellison, samples Wayne's voice on "Robo Tussin", another surreal, exotica-flavored ..

Sound Menu (Creative Loafing Atlanta) bi13672433 CL 's picks for the week's best shows Courtesy soul asylum WED/2 THE DEATH SET Baltimore's Australian ex-pat duo the Death Set explodes a sample-fueled fury unheard Atari Teenage Riot. The buzzing synth and drum-machine beats are joined by noisy, distortion-drenched bass and guitar childlike shouted vocals like the Go! Team giving Daft Punk a beatdown. The lo-fi crush adds an ..

Who's Biting J Dilla's Beats? (LA Weekly) bi13672433 No art form lionizes fallen quite like hip-. Forget Biggie and 2Pac. Their reputations were sealed the moment the doctors zipped the body bags ? though, to be fair, few can argue against posthumous crowning the pantheon

Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards 2008 (Fort Worth Weekly) bi13672433 Written by Caroline Collier, Jimmy Fowler, Eric Griffey, Joshua Loewen, Anthony Mariani, Justin Press, Jeff Prince, and Steve Steward. Photos by Vishal Malhotra..

Girl Talk Discusses New Album, Out Digitally This Week (Pitchfork) bi13672433 "I got an email from Sophie B. Hawkins' manager. She wanted to maybe collaborate on something, very cool." If you'd been putting together an iTunes playlist for a big party weekend, be sure to leave a good bit of space on it

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