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lower east side – nyc doings: Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival & now introducing Empanadas plus more!
June 8th, 2015 by Mr. C
(the mixologists making my chocolate egg cream with the classic Fox’s Ubet chocolate syrup!) (Peking Opera – Monkey King performance) (Puerto Rican Vejigante mask) (Puerto Rican fan making) The 15th annual Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival & this year – Empanadas were added to the Eldridge street mix! The festival provides a fun opportunity […]
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Brand Nubian + Cover Girls + Amina Buddafly + Peter Gunz + Nene Ali = Celebrate Bronx Week 2015 ~> Moshulu Park!
May 18th, 2015 by Mr. C
All photos by Mr. C – All Videos by Chocko (Bronx residents – Throw your X’s in the air to Celebrate Bronx Week at Moshulu Park!) (Rapper,B-Boy,Politician,Playboy(kidding) – Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. was the emcee at the event) (Brand Nubian with special guest Ruben Diaz Jr. performing Step to the Rear) (Steph Lova […]
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Super Saturday – Chinatown NYC
March 1st, 2015 by Mr. C
(Rockits) (Norman Chin’s Jook Lum Southern Praying Mantis) The Lunar New Year celebrations in New York’s Chinatown marched on with tradition as Kung Fu schools, Youth organizations, Benevolent Associations, Community Organizations, & Dance troupes in the New York city area all came out to perform traditional Lion Dances in the streets going from storefront to […]
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You goat girl – Moon Over Manhattan: Celebrate the New Year 2015 – Year of the Goat
February 22nd, 2015 by Mr. C
(Korean drumming) (Bo Law Kung Fu) My original plans to invade Flushing, Queens’ Chinatown for the Lunar New Year celebrations were foiled as the Planet Chocko spaceship was in the lab getting a circuit board swapped out due to malfunction. When the systems were all a go again, I was running late so the backup […]
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Tour de Bronx
October 30th, 2014 by Mr. C
(My ride parked outside of the Banana Deli on 161st Street) On Sunday October 26th, I biked the 25 mile leg of the Tour De Bronx! It’s one of my favorite bike rides if not most favorite of the year eclipsing the NYC 5 borough bike ride, Tour de Brooklyn, & Tour de Queens. Not […]
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Welling Court Mural Project – take 1 (2014 Open House New York)
October 12th, 2014 by Mr. C
Though it was part of the Open House New York offerings this past weekend – a great weekend when all 5 boroughs of NYC opens up its doors to many of its establishments,events,landmarks, and businesses in order to celebrate the city – The Welling Court Mural Project in Astoria, Queens has opened up it’s “outdoors” […]
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Hackensack Street Fair – performances by Average White Band & African drumming-dancing
September 28th, 2014 by Mr. C
Lately, I’ve been looking for more & more excuses to stay on the Jersey side of the hudson river due to time contraints and in general just trying to take advantage of some events we easily dismiss in the Garden State. Yesterday 9/27 Saturday gave me a good opportunity to not exercise my old EZPASS […]
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Pearl River Mart Chinese New Year celebrations
February 17th, 2014 by Mr. C
——————————————————————————————————– Pearl River Mart, a tremendous import store dedicated to all things chinese including clothing,fabric,house goods,cookware,herbal medicine,traditional bird cages,traditional musical instruments,candy,artwork,porcelain goods, and a million of other knick knacks. They even have a tea shop on the third floor. Pearl River Mart has been in the Chinatown area since…dare I say since we lived in […]
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Super Saturday in Chinatown NYC – Lion Dance
February 8th, 2014 by Mr. C
——————————————————————————————————————- The 2nd Saturday after Chinese Lunar New Year is a day where the Lions come out and play, dance, and ward off evil spirits going door to door to local shops in Chinatown. In turn, the Lion dancers get red envelopes filled with money from each business as gratuity as they perform, eat lettuce, […]
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Chinese New Year celebrations continue at The China Institute!
February 6th, 2014 by Mr. C
———————————————————————————————————— Chinese New Year celebration continues as The China Institute on East 65th street helped keep things real festive as they kicked off the new year with a free lion dance and Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu performance on 65th street! The dazzling performers were from the New York Hung Sing Kwoon martial art school […]
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Lunar New Year Celebration at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
January 26th, 2014 by Mr. C
(All photos & videos by mr. c) ——————————————————————————————————————— Planet Chocko kicked off the celebrations for the Lunar New Year – Year of the Horse at the Bronx Museum of the Arts earlier today! The New York Chinese Cultural Center based in Chinatown New York provided the means of the celebration as they brought the colorful […]
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Tara Mcpherson – Wandering Luminations
November 26th, 2013 by Mr. C
Unfortunately, this rad exhibition dubbed “Wandering Luminations” by Tara Mcpherson displayed at the Jonathan Levine Gallery ended a few weeks ago but we wanted to share the beautiful imagery and colors of her amazing artwork! All the work done with Wandering Luminations by Miss Tara were painted with oils on linen stretched over birch panel. […]
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