Monthly Archives: July 2012

(Community Matters) Much appreciation to Google and all team members for their international campaign advocating LGBT equality – Singapore & Poland named within first sights.

(Community Matters) So many rabbit holes to run down, I don’t know where to start  – but need to think more about this  – Washington Guardian business model. Can deep investigative journalism be sustainably monetized in today’s market? I’m familiar with the Texas Tribune’s business model, and it’s highly dependent on philanthropic support. Should become familiar with Politico’s model. Time to call on my friends John Thornton & Evan Smith to better understand.

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(Community Matters) I thought the Huffington Post headline was over-the-top sensationalist when referred to bank’s trading scandal as potentially their Enron moment . . . but the LIBOR business could do deeper, further and represent criminal activity – scary to imagine the reach

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(Community Matters) Culture Map did a story on the top LGBT blog sites. Of course I knew Michael’s & AusChron but pleased to learn of the Chase Martin: The Republiq and  Bryan Kosarek: Gay in Austin.

(Community Matters) sorry to be missing the 2012 Aldridge Place 4th of July parade and picnic.

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pics from previous years

(Community Matters) Saw him in a toy store window in Chinatown. They refused to sell him to me darnit

(Community Matters) Reportedly favored

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Hat Tip: Towelroad

(Community Matters) The first act was among the best theater I’ve ever seen. The second act was good but a bit shallow. From our conversation after, realizing it might have been intentionally dumbed down. Steven felt very uncomfortable about the contemporary racial tension portrayed; I felt they sugar coated.

Tony Award- Best Play: A white community in 1950’s Chicago frets about the African-American family about to move in. Fast-forward to the present day, and the same house represents very different demographics. Climbing through the looking-glass of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic A Raisin in the Sun, these contemporary characters explode into caustic comedy to reveal how far our ideas of race and gentrification have changed – or have they?

(Community Matters) in L Style G Style

(Community Matters) ABJ: Austin has moved up one spot of a list of the largest cities in the United States, replacing San Francisco at No. 13.

The Capitol City had 820,611 on July 1, 2011, according to U.S. Census Bureau    data. That’s up from 790,390 in 2010.

The top five largest cities are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia.

Metropolitan areas: 1) NY, 2) LA, 3) Chicago, 4) Dallas-FW, 5) Houston, 6) Philadelphia, 7) DC, 8) Miama-Ft Lauderdale, 9) Atlanta, 10) Boston, 11) San Francisco . . . . 24) San Antonio, 34) Austin

(Community Matters) an over-the-top web series – kinda cute

first episode:

here to watch

(Community Matters) African economies the new emerging?