Tag Archives: Yolande Brener

HW Radio Podcast on the Harlem Music Scene with Yolande Brener

Posted on January 21, 2012 by | 3 Comments

Listen to Harlem-based punk band The Amputees, Jazz punk musician Tiffany  Chang and world music artist Ishmael Osekre of Osekre and the Lucky Bastards with Harlem World Magazine culture writer Yolande Brener (second from the right). Continue reading →

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Ishmael Osekre: What My Mama Told Me (video)

Posted on January 2, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Story by Yolande Brener

Ishmael Osekre arrived in New York with $30, no bank account and no idea how he would pay for his tuition at Columbia University.  Continue reading →

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Harlem World Magazine’s 2011 Year In Review

Posted on January 2, 2012 by | Leave a comment

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST OF THE HARLEM WORLD MAGAZINE 2011 YEAR IN REVIEW RADIO SHOW WITH HOST DANNY TISDALE >>>

Our Year in Review

2012 is here, but Harlem World Magazine‘s has been hard at work taking a look at the Harlem year in charity, sports, health & fitness,business, arts & culture, entertainment, politics & community and farewells. Continue reading →

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In Da (Hamilton) Heightz For The Hamilton Grange Memorial Opening In Harlem (video)

Posted on September 18, 2011 by | 2 Comments

By Yolande Brener

Although many New Yorkers may not know why the area from 135th Street to 155th Street on the west side is called Hamilton Heights, judging by the large turnout for the opening of his memorial, Alexander Hamilton has plenty of fans.

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HW Radio Podcast Discuss Wellness and Music In Harlem (update)

Posted on August 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Join Daniel Tisdale and Yolande Brener (left) as they discuss dance and body wellness with Kierra Foster-Ba, 5Rhythms teacher at Harlem Yoga Studio, and Carmen Victorino (bottom right), owner of Le Femme Suite pole dancing studio.

Ms. Brener follows up on her article “Movement Based Mediation: Shaking Spirit Waves in Harlem“ workshops based her own experience during one of her first person workshop at the Harlem Yoga Studio. Continue reading →

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Movement-Based Meditation: Shaking Spirit Waves in Harlem

Posted on August 16, 2011 by | 7 Comments

By Yolande Brener

When I read about Kierra Foster-Ba’s dance class “without any set choreography and without the self-consciousness of caring what you look like” I was skeptical that many people would be unguarded enough to dance without prescribed movements. Continue reading →

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Harlem’s Le Femme Suite: Empowerment Through Movement

Posted on July 16, 2011 by | 2 Comments

By Yolande Brener

A few steps down from street level, the disco lights, love seats and ostrich feathers of Carmen Victorino’s Le Femme Suite beckon.  Continue reading →

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Sweet Georgia Scott—Down There and Up Here In Harlem

Posted on July 11, 2011 by | 3 Comments

By Yolande Brener

Globetrippin’s chandelier, bookshelves and offer of cookie painting enticed me in to try a Chinese floral tea.  Continue reading →

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Watch out, Tribeca. Here Comes East Harlem!

Posted on May 29, 2011 by | 1 Comment

… we have the name of Harlem …. What is more famous: Robert de Niro or Harlem?

By Yolande Brener

As I entered the Poet’s Den Gallery, a chandelier glittered above my head while a white Persian cat ran to nuzzle my ankle.  Continue reading →

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Cultures Of Resistance: Make Films Not War

Posted on April 26, 2011 by | Leave a comment

“Sometimes a film, a song, has taken history on a different path,” says one of the opening statements in Iara Lee’s documentary, Cultures of Resistance. It seems, though, that history doesn’t always want to be changed.

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