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Spic Chic Interview Excerpt 3: The Value of AngerSpic Chic s author talks candidly about the edgy aspect of his Nuyorican writers life including having to retrieve his door receipts at the Nuyorican Caf at gunpoint, being hounded by the FBI and NY Antiterrorist Squad and the seeds of the Lola Magdalena story. Excerpt from Interview by Sissy Gameche on Channel 57 Time Warner NYChttp://www.newedgecabaret.com In late 2008, Fly by Night Press (a subsidiary of A Gathering of the Tribes, NYC) opted to publish a compendium of poetry, photos, artwork, comedic essays and short stories dating back to 1975 under the title of Spic Chic (The Adventuresof the Last Nuyorican), written by Luis Chaluisan (aka El Extreme). The term "Spic Chic" caused controversy in 1974when it was used on the Bill Boggs mid-day talk show - then aired on Metromedia Channel 5 in NYC (now Fox Television). The offhand remark was offered by Latin NY magazine editors to describe the infusion of vivid colors by Latinoclothes designers then making their mark on NY's fashion world. The latter part of the promotional title (The Adventures ofthe Last Nuyorican) is based on a humorous quip in 2005 from Nuyorican poet Papoleto Melendez that El Extreme representsthe torn page from the canon of previously published Nuyorican writers who flourished in the 1970 s and 80 s.Meanwhile, writer David Henderson ( Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child) is a bit more seriousstating, I think Spic Chic is strong stuff, right in the Nuyorican tradition. Poems and then stories back into poems that areoften emotionally moving. A self exploration in a non-chronological history consistent in language and point of view, it isclearly a highly personalized work that is successful in the Nuyorican free-style genre and successful in the broader sense aswell. Both observations are welcomed by Bronx bred author Chaluisan - now residing in Brownsville, Brooklyn - whostates, "I could have chased a traditional path in developing my work but I was having too much manic fun being off-beatand, besides, God had other plans for my creative life." With the publication of Narrative of a Hybrid in the Polemic Anthology(1976, Straight Ahead Press Amherst, Massachusetts) Luis Chaluisan joined the ranks of period Nuyorican writersthat included Pedro Pietri ( Puerto Rican Obituary 1973), Miguel Pinero (Short Eyes 1973) and Lefty Barretto(Nobody s Hero 1976). Mentored by Black Panther cultural minister Ed Bullins and later by Young Lord Eddie Figueroa(founder of the New Rican Village" on the Lower East Side of New York) Chaluisan was invited to join the NY PublicTheater s emerging playwright unit headed by Crispin Larengeira in the summer of 1977. A chance meeting with magazineeditor-in-chief Soledad Santiago paved the way for Chaluisan to land a job at Latin NY magazine the nation s first successfullong term English language monthly publication focusing on Latino (primarily Puerto Rican vis-a-vis Nuyorican)arts and culture. The nineteen year old Chaluisan rose up the ranks from reporter to music editor between 1977-79 under thetutelage of Latin NY publisher Izzy Sanabria which led to his being hired by WCBS network affiliate WFSB (Channel 3) inHartford, Connecticut in June of 1979. For the next seventeen years he worked as a TV investigative reporter, producer,writer and marketing executive for PBS (Bowling Green, Ohio), Telemundo (Tucson, Arizona/Yakima, Washington),WCBS Channel 2 (New York), and News 12 Long Island, along with stints at radio station WGB in Albany among othermainstream media outlets in the US. Upon leaving the news business in 1997 and resettling in Hartford, CT, Chaluisan(once again performing fulltime as El Extreme ) began to disseminate work he had developed as a musical composer andpoet/essayist with his own indie rock groups dating back to 1982 (Little Otis and The Upsetters, The Blankets of Doom, LaGran Orquesta El Extreme, Gang Bang Bang, and El Extreme s Electric Cabaret.). The effort led to his inclusion in theNational Slam Poetry movement as a State Slam Champion for CT. (1998/1999 in Austin, Texas and Chicago, Illinois.) Hissemi-final performance was captured on film by CBS' Sixty Minutes and featured in the news magazine's report on the tenthanniversary of the Slam movement. In 2000 he returned to NYC and set to work on organizing his written work and professional notes describing his media/educational experience which resulted in the off-Broadway play Spic Chic: S.panish P.eople I.n C.ontrol (initially a 2001workshop at the Nuyorican Caf in Manhattan with later runs at the Chelsea Playhouse and Spanish Repertory Theater). The performance at El Repertorio Espanol garnered the attention of producers for the 2004 Biennale Festival in Bonn, Germany where Spic Chic had its European premiere at the Bonn Opera House Theater. In the meantime, Chaluisan was approached by film director Henry Chalfant ( Style Wars ) to contribute both content and interview source material to the award winning documentary From Mambo to Hip Hop which aired on PBS in 2006. In 2007, Chaluisan moved to Puerto Rico after the death of his father Federico Chaluisan to spend a year in mourning and soaking in the poetry/writer s scene at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez, PR. With the help of University students and Professor Linda Rodriguez, El Extreme reemerged writing in both English and Spanish.

Spic Chic Interview Excerpt 1How a writing submission to Fly By Night Press went from live monologue to one man show, musical version, European/American tours and now book form. Excerpt from Interview by Sissy Gameche on Channel 57 Time Warner NYC http://www.newedgecabaret.com In late 2008, Fly by Night Press (a subsidiary of A Gathering of the Tribes, NYC) opted to publish a compendium of poetry, photos, artwork, comedic essays and short stories dating back to 1975 under the title of Spic Chic (The Adventuresof the Last Nuyorican), written by Luis Chaluisan (aka El Extreme). The term "Spic Chic" caused controversy in 1974when it was used on the Bill Boggs mid-day talk show - then aired on Metromedia Channel 5 in NYC (now Fox Television). The offhand remark was offered by Latin NY magazine editors to describe the infusion of vivid colors by Latinoclothes designers then making their mark on NY's fashion world. The latter part of the promotional title (The Adventures ofthe Last Nuyorican) is based on a humorous quip in 2005 from Nuyorican poet Papoleto Melendez that El Extreme representsthe torn page from the canon of previously published Nuyorican writers who flourished in the 1970 s and 80 s.Meanwhile, writer David Henderson ( Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child) is a bit more seriousstating, I think Spic Chic is strong stuff, right in the Nuyorican tradition. Poems and then stories back into poems that areoften emotionally moving. A self exploration in a non-chronological history consistent in language and point of view, it isclearly a highly personalized work that is successful in the Nuyorican free-style genre and successful in the broader sense aswell. Both observations are welcomed by Bronx bred author Chaluisan - now residing in Brownsville, Brooklyn - whostates, "I could have chased a traditional path in developing my work but I was having too much manic fun being off-beatand, besides, God had other plans for my creative life." With the publication of Narrative of a Hybrid in the Polemic Anthology(1976, Straight Ahead Press Amherst, Massachusetts) Luis Chaluisan joined the ranks of period Nuyorican writersthat included Pedro Pietri ( Puerto Rican Obituary 1973), Miguel Pinero (Short Eyes 1973) and Lefty Barretto(Nobody s Hero 1976). Mentored by Black Panther cultural minister Ed Bullins and later by Young Lord Eddie Figueroa(founder of the New Rican Village" on the Lower East Side of New York) Chaluisan was invited to join the NY PublicTheater s emerging playwright unit headed by Crispin Larengeira in the summer of 1977. A chance meeting with magazineeditor-in-chief Soledad Santiago paved the way for Chaluisan to land a job at Latin NY magazine the nation s first successfullong term English language monthly publication focusing on Latino (primarily Puerto Rican vis-a-vis Nuyorican)arts and culture. The nineteen year old Chaluisan rose up the ranks from reporter to music editor between 1977-79 under thetutelage of Latin NY publisher Izzy Sanabria which led to his being hired by WCBS network affiliate WFSB (Channel 3) inHartford, Connecticut in June of 1979. For the next seventeen years he worked as a TV investigative reporter, producer,writer and marketing executive for PBS (Bowling Green, Ohio), Telemundo (Tucson, Arizona/Yakima, Washington),WCBS Channel 2 (New York), and News 12 Long Island, along with stints at radio station WGB in Albany among othermainstream media outlets in the US. Upon leaving the news business in 1997 and resettling in Hartford, CT, Chaluisan(once again performing fulltime as El Extreme ) began to disseminate work he had developed as a musical composer andpoet/essayist with his own indie rock groups dating back to 1982 (Little Otis and The Upsetters, The Blankets of Doom, LaGran Orquesta El Extreme, Gang Bang Bang, and El Extreme s Electric Cabaret.). The effort led to his inclusion in theNational Slam Poetry movement as a State Slam Champion for CT. (1998/1999 in Austin, Texas and Chicago, Illinois.) Hissemi-final performance was captured on film by CBS' Sixty Minutes and featured in the news magazine's report on the tenthanniversary of the Slam movement. In 2000 he returned to NYC and set to work on organizing his written work and professional notes describing his media/educational experience which resulted in the off-Broadway play Spic Chic: S.panish P.eople I.n C.ontrol (initially a 2001workshop at the Nuyorican Caf in Manhattan with later runs at the Chelsea Playhouse and Spanish Repertory Theater). The performance at El Repertorio Espanol garnered the attention of producers for the 2004 Biennale Festival in Bonn, Germany where Spic Chic had its European premiere at the Bonn Opera House Theater. In the meantime, Chaluisan was approached by film director Henry Chalfant ( Style Wars ) to contribute both content and interview source material to the award winning documentary From Mambo to Hip Hop which aired on PBS in 2006. In 2007, Chaluisan moved to Puerto Rico after the death of his father Federico Chaluisan to spend a year in mourning and soaking in the poetry/writer s scene at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez, PR. With the help of University students and Professor Linda Rodriguez, El Extreme reemerged writing in both English and Spanish.

WEPAwebTV Marches in Dominican Day ParadeYou can catch a musical slide show of WEPAwebTV s Lola Magdalena and El Extreme hobnobbing at Gracie Mansion NYC With the likes of Fashion Designer Oscar de La Renta, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Washington Heights City Council Candidate Manuel Lantigua, leaders of NYDO (New York Dominican Officers Organization) and Dominican Day Parade Beauty Finalists. WEPAwebTV will also be marching in the Dominican ay Parade by special invitation from Parade Director Nelson Pena! WEPAwebTV: The multicultural tonic for creative thirst expanding into politics and beyond ...http://www.newedgecabaret.com/

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http://www.newedgecabaret.com/THE URBAN INDIVIDUALISTS artists collective would like to invite you to "Hard Hearts" opening July 17th, 2009 @The Williamsburgh Music Center (WMC) 367 Bedford Av Brooklyn NY (718)384-1654 at 7pm. Join us for one of a kind original art, live music, poetry/spoken word/visual mixed media artworks, refreshments, wine and cash bar/this event is free and open to the public. Share this invite with your friends and family for a fun filled Hard Hearts Adventure into the art world!!! Under williamsburgh bridge J,M,Z, L trains - L train to bedford and walk to south 5th st. or J, M, Z to Marcy Ave first stop off bridge in Brooklyn walk towards river and make right on Bedford.

EVOLUTION As my Reddish Auburn locks turn a silver grey, they become stubborn and thick, Curls doing their own thing going their own way . I look into the mirror and the image I see has changed My skin once fresh, rosey and tight, shows signs of years past, a road map of Child Bearing, Marriage, Corporate America, Smoking, Chocolate and .. Sex . My bones and joints once strong and tall show signs of fragility and weakness The aches and pains are reminders of my youth The days of double dutch, kick the can, red light green light and hot peas and butter . As if there was anything other . It s the Evolution of growth, The gift of life and wisdom, A sign of the traits passed down from one generation to the next . It s the ever changing variety of life The unfolding of a new beginning, a new era, a new chapter in my life My body forms a woman s curves They are full, tight and .. confident . My moves become better with practice as they should My hips sway seductively on their own Rocking from side to side as I . walk . As I walk I feel the woman growing inside of me Taking a risk, no fear, no inhibitions, Enjoying the free spirit of the woman in side of me . My feminine powers unleashing Past down to me from my mother and grandmother The Powers that all women possess The Power of seduction .. The Power of .. I discovered an important layer of consumption woven in that fabric of life I discovered my growth As a woman, mother and wife I discovered that everything is possible, dreams come true and there is no limit to what I can do . So as my curls turn a silver grey and become stubborn and thick I embrace ...my blessings ...and keep them in place By Mia Roman Hernandez 2008 http://www.newedgecabaret.com/

WEPAwebTV Classic Clips: From www.newedgecabaret.com Interviews Music Comedy and more! NOW PLAYING: SPIC CHIC: the adventures of the last nuyorican (c) 2009 written by: Luis Chaluisan/El Extreme Published by: Fly By Night Press A subsidiary of A Gathering of the Tribes, NYC ISBN 1930083173 100 pages with color photos $10.00 Also available on roughrican CD and DVD Productions with more than a dozen added selections of live performances, original music and period film from Spic Chic (mamboXman: the adventure continues (c) 2009 roughrican CD/DVD featuring Chamaco El Gangster performed live at the Nuyorican Cafe, Papo Vazquez, David Amram, La Gran Orquesta El Extreme, Maria Hernandez as Lola Magdalena, Gang Bang Bang, El Extremes Electric Cabaret y mucho mas!) call: 347-526-2670 e-mail: mambohyperspace@yahoo.com Home: http://www.newedgecabaret.com/ "In an era when spoken-word poetry has carved out a niche in "slam" competitions and even on HBO's Def Poetry, Chaluisan's work is old- school - often as literate as it is lyrical, stuffed with images drawn from New York City life. Clem Richardson - NY Daily News Luis Chaluisan Selected Artist In Residence at Carnegie Library Based Heritage House. As the success of Spic Chic: The Adventures Of The Last Nuyorican continues to expand WEPAnews is proud to say that New Edge Theater founder and director Luis Chaluisan (El Extreme) has been named Artist in Residence at the Brownsville Heritage House. The Heritage House functions as a library/museum and is home to a variety of books by, and historical photographs of prominent African-Americans. Art includes sculptures, graffiti by local artists, and photo collages depicting the history of Brownsville. I think Spic Chic is strong stuff, right in the Nuyorican tradition. Poems and then stories back into poems that are often emotionally moving. A self exploration in a non chronological history consistent in language and point of view it is clearly a highly personalized work that is successful in the Nuyorican free-style genre and successful in the broader sense as well. David Henderson author 'Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child SPIC CHIC PAVES WAY FOR 3 SCREENPLAYS INCLUDING LIFE OF SALSA PIONEER While the NY Brooklyn Public Library system continues to add dates to the ongoing Spic Chic book club series, roughrican productions has been hired to write and edit screenplays for three major projects due for release later this year and 2010. (The book club has also been booked for stops in Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo and more than 20 cities in the US plus readings overseas.) On deck are the lives of one of Salsa music s leading Salsa music promoters (spanning from 1948-2007), the stellar boxing career of middleweight champion Joey Gameche (55 and 4) and a documentary on the spiritual teachings of Hasidim in Crown Heights (Toward A Meaningful Life: The Wisdom Of The Rebbe author: Simon Jacobson) directed by Joseph Savoy (grandson of the famed Savoy Ballroom founder in Harlem.) In the meantime, WEPAwebTV is filming new sequences featuring Lola Magdalena (Maria Hernandez) for release in May at MNN studios in Manhattan. (Ms. Hernandez is currently handling translation duties for the New York Yankees. On Tuesday she fielded questions for Yankee catcher/slugger Jorge Posada and other Latino players on the Bronx Bombers roster for national media at the new stadium.)