Baratunde Thurston

They are often our first responders in a chaotic, messed up world. They are chemists, sociologists and therapists. They are mixologists, cocktologists or better known as–our bartenders.” -Baratunde Thurston Just like the slow food movement of the past decade made us aware of what we put into our bodies, bartenders across the United States are championing a “slow cocktail” movement to bring America back to pre-prohibition times when making cocktails was an art form. Author, comedian and...Read Full Story

Read this post, share it on the social web and you could win a free pass to the 2010 MIMA Summit. Details below. The 2010 MIMA Summit being held next week 9/27-28 will feature keynote speaker Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV and author of Crush It! (review). Once I heard @Garyvee was speaking in Minnesota I hoped to do a pre-event interview, but it didn’t work out.  Two years ago, Geoff Livingston introduced me to Gary at Blog World Expo and to be honest, I wasn’t familiar with who he was...Read Full Story

Read this post, share it on the social web and you could win a free pass to the 2010 MIMA Summit. Details below. The 2010 MIMA Summit being held next week 9/27-28 will feature keynote speaker Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV and author of Crush It! (review). Once I heard @Garyvee was speaking in Minnesota I hoped to do a pre-event interview, but it didn’t work out.  Two years ago, Geoff Livingston introduced me to Gary at Blog World Expo and while I wasn’t familiar with who he was yet, my...Read Full Story

My life: the playlist More here My life: the playlist – CNN.com Grittv: The Census: Communist Counting Plot? Cnn Census Race Followup: Negros, Latinos And Whites Oh My! Re: Census Race Followup Take Iii The Census Is Getting Personal My Life: The Playlist : STC NewsBut if you'd just read my census entry, all you'd know is that I'm a 32-year-old black man named Baratunde Thurston who lives alone in a rented apartment in Brooklyn. The current song on my playlist: "Dumb" by Nirvana...Read Full Story

Last week for Black Enterprise Magazine Online I interviewed comedian, Jack & Jill Politics blogger and The Onion's Digital Director Baratunde Thurston about his love for technology and BLACKNESS. Yes, blackness. As in, his new book "How to Be Black." We also talked, at lenght, about how more black people need to become entrepernueral in the online space, rather than simply users of it.  From Black Enterprise: Thurston: Black people, as much as we’ve been deprived, we’re pretty creative...Read Full Story