Major League Soccer recently announced a partnership between Manchester City FC and the New York Yankees to bring the league its 20th franchise, New York City FC. Manchester City FC will own the majority of the team while The Yankees own the rest. The team will start playing in 2015 and will be the first MLS team to play within the 5 boroughs. A 20,000+ seat stadium currently being planned for construction in Queens’ Flushing Meadows Park with a tentative plan to play in Yankee Stadium while the project is completed. Mayor Bloomberg has already thrown his support behind the plan saying that Flushing Meadows Park is “the best place for it for everybody.”

New York City FC and its stadium plans aren't without their opposition however as the Mets would have to agree to let the team use its parking facilities. Then there's also the local resident opposition to the plans on top of that. The idea of building a privately owned stadium on public parkland is controversial especially with no concrete plans on how to replace the lost space for the neighborhood. While the recent victories of the new Yankee Stadium (The Bronx) and the Barclay’s Center (Brooklyn) have shown that major influence from major franchises can indeed prevail over concerned citizens it'll definitely be curious to see how this new front will pan out.

A-list celebrities, journalists and top government officials graced Washington D.C. for this year's White House Correspondent's Dinner. The glamorous evening took place this past Saturday and brought out everyone from Newt Gingrich and Conan O'Brien, to John Legend and Steven Spielberg. American President Barack Obama was on fire with jokes and political commentary that rivaled only a few of the comedic attendees. What an interesting display of government and Hollywood.

There's a war going on in Baltimore, Maryland and very few are safe--a war for the survival of expression in some of the meanest streets this side of Eastern border of the United States. 12 O' Clock Boys is a documentary about that war. Although there aren't guns and bombs involved there are police and a so-called "enemy". In the midst of poverty and violence very few things hold together like illegal Baltimore bike gangs. The following is a trailer about a young boy and his numerous encounters with dreams and destiny. Brace yourself.

Director/Producer, Simon Klose, presents a look in to what may have been one of the most important Internet cases in history, the story of Pirate Bay. The upcoming documentary tails its Swedish founders, Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredik Neij and Peter Sunde and how their file sharing site created a political storm that resulted in prison time and $3.5 Million USD in fines. Peep the trailer to understand why it was Hollywood V.S. The Swedish Computer Wizards. Available for download real soon! Go figure.

What happens when you decide to Jedi Mind Trick the average Barack Obama supporter about some "supposed" Mitt Romney policies? Then, only after they've expressed their distaste for the latter, you reveal to them that the statements are actually all policies already signed into legislation by the current man in the oval office. Kind of changes the way we perceive the average American voter, no? Peep the following We Are Change video, where interviewer Luke Rudkowski cranks this all into action. The revealing answers hit after the 4:30 mark.

Not sure how public or mainstream this news has been (and we're over a year late), but according to Xinhua, Cuba has revealed the world's very first lung cancer vaccine--CimaVax-EGF. According to the report, a 25-year research project at the Center of Molecular Immunology in Havana has produced treatment that can transform late stages of lung cancer into less serious and manageable chronic disease, a definite step forward considering the fatal nature of the first. We can't stop scratching our heads about this ones suppression, but according to sources its already been tested on over 1000 patients (more by now) in Cuba and being distributed freely to hospitals.

Despite years of practice and obvious abuse, it seems like the New York Police Department's Stop And Frisk policy still continues to garner negative attention. At this point it almost seems like some kind of ironic and cruel joke. Nevertheless, the following is yet another example of its misused practice. Verbal threats, physical harm, racial slurs, you name it. Us versus them all over again. Props to independent news site The Nation and the team that put this one together.

Contrary to what a ton of the mainstream and radio-spun Hip-Hop is currently portraying we've actually come across some hard facts and real raps. And they arrive via Atlanta-native (and Outkast relative) Killer Mike's new video for his tune, Reagan. It's pretty brutal to see the animated portrayal of the governmental lies that obliterated the social, psychological and economic aspirations of millions of African-Americans thus the current state of greed, gangs, drugs, violence and incarceration. Bare witness the conscious side of Hip-Hop's antidote for Reaganomics.

Skateistan is a Kabul-based Afghan NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) that has evolved into an International non-profit charity. The group currently provides skateboarding and educational programming in Afghanistan, Cambodia and Pakistan. And this is their newly-released Skateistan Book ($39.95 USD), a hardcover tribute to how it all began and how their amazing story continues. Imagine that, skateboarding amidst the backdrop of desert and land all while empowering children away from historical war and chaos!

 

With both Republican and Democratic conventions done and over with we couldn't help but to post something in regards to "poli-tricks". It's all the same to us and while the United States may buzz about siding with the donkey or the elephant, we're going to endorse the party that always wins, comedy! Here's Barack Obama impersonator, Iman Crosson, with his latest spoof. The short parodies President Obama's DNC speech over Chicago rapper, Chief Keef's, breakout single, I Don't Like.