I saw a few excerpts from the upcoming reality/drama film Snow On Tha Bluff, directed by Damon Russell.  Looks like some real deal, in-the-trenches gangster shit.  The film made its premiere at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival and will be screened at 2012 Brooklyn Film Festival. Russell produced three episodes of the A&E reality-series The […]

Wow.  The most feared drug gang in Mexico, Cartel Los Zetas, finally buckled under pressure.  But it wasn’t law enforcement, the military or rival gangsters that made the violent Zetas bow to threats… it was a gang of computer geeks. A few days ago, the hacking collective known as Anonymous threatened to expose the identities […]

People have gone to great lengths to save the whales, trees and oceans.  Hopefully the same effort will be made to save an “uncontacted,” isolated native tribe in the Amazon jungles of Brazil.  The Panoan Indians were first photographed from the air in 2008 and to this day, have never been contacted by the outside […]

WORDS BY KHALID STRICKLAND a.k.a. BLACK PACINO I’ma keep it funky. In the hood, multiple Arab-owned grocery stores peacefully co-exist on one block and swap workers every so often.  The same holds true with Chinese restaurants.  These businesses pool their money together for the good of their respective ethnic groups.  Meanwhile, black folks can’t even […]

PHOTOS BY JOEY ORTEGA RESEARCH BY KHALID STRICKLAND a.k.a. BLACK PACINO This post happened by accident but these pics are too badass not to highlight.  If there was ever a photo set tailor-made for The Spizzy, this is it. It’s been well-documented  that I’ve got a twisted fetish for women with guns.  So I pitched […]

NOSTALGIA BY KHALID STRICKLAND a.k.a. BLACK PACINO I’d better visit Ebay and cop that lumberjack coat with a hat to match. Time to trade in the iPod for a big-ass ghetto blaster. Welfare cheese should be back on the streets any day now. ‘Cuz in New York City, it’s the crazy 1980′s again. There’s something […]