Don’t forget about the big BuzzFoto event happening this Thursday!!!!

Iconic seventies photographer Brad Elterman has published a new volume featuring fifty-five black & white and color versions of his iconic images. Elterman had the incredible good fortune of arriving on the pop culture scene in 1974 as a teenager with a camera around his neck. He captured hundreds of legendary images of the kind most photographers can only dream. Like It Was Yesterday curates shockingly candid, under-produced portraits of larger-than-life personalities like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Frank Sinatra, Joan Jett, Phil Spector, Joey Ramone and Muhammad Ali into a seventy-two page work of art.

“Brad’s photos provide a rare, often raunchy glimpse into a rock and roll history where it seems Brad is always at the right place at the right time, camera ready. There is even a photo of Dylan posing with a young Deniro at The Roxy in 1976! There might be a better chance of quadruplet albinos being born under a solar eclipse, than a cosmic opportunity like that happening again in a young photographer’s career.” – DiscoSalt

6 to 9pm, Thursday 2 December 2010
Kindly RSVP to info@leadapron.net

This now very successful actress who can sing grew up as a child star. She told our source about a time when she was a young girl and was so tired she wanted to take a break from acting and take a nap. Her parents refused and worked her until she was cranky and crying. The parents were so upset by her refusal to work, they took her in the car, drove her to the nearest mall and left her there in the parking lot. Because it was cold where they were filming, she sat inside a department store dressing room and cried until a woman finally found her, contacted security, who contacted her parents. The parents showed up two hours after security called, grabbed their daughter, and took her back to the set. In spite of being so tired, she was so terrified of being abandoned again, she went back to work and didn’t complain.

Some 2,600 police and army operatives swept through a Brazilian slum on Sunday, seizing 11 tons of marijuana and “a small arsenal” of weapons—including a missile—from a notorious drug gang. They also found a Justin Bieber mural.

Pezao, whom The Guardian describes as “one of the area’s top traffickers,” is apparently also one of the area’s top Justin Bieber fans. Brazilian news outlet R7 published the above photo, as well as several others documenting the narcos’ “mansions.” They’ll need to update for Bieber’s new haircut, obviously.

The “unprecedented” operation, which focused on the notorious 70,000-resident Complexo do Alemao, took place at 8 a.m. By 9:30 a.m. it had been “conquered,” (that’s what the police said, at least), and in the afternoon the government troops “hoisted the country’s green and yellow flag.” The hope was to weaken the Red Command drug gang and capture some of its notorious members—like Zeu, the drug lord behind the samurai-sword murder of Brazilian journalist Tim Lopes. It’s unlikely to be the last raid, though:

The head of Rio’s drug squad, Marcus Vinicius Braga, described the operation as “worryingly calm” and suggested further confrontations were likely. “We are winning, but we haven’t won yet,” he said.

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