Dumbworld: A Sacramento Based Blog on Entertainment, Media and Art

The hit British television show Top Gear is coming to America.

The spin-off will see Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond replaced with comedian Adam Ferrara, stunt driver Tanner Foust, and reporter Rutledge Wood. via Art and Business of Motion

If you don’t know about Top Gear, step your game up.  After all, who doesn’t like the Stig???

Below is video of the Bugatti Veyron vs McLaren F1 from Top Gear.

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Saw a poster for this (Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop) and was intrigued.  Sorry, Sacramento hasn’t been deemed cool enough to get a showing.

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They also try the iPhone. Also, will the iPad blend?  The answer might surprise you.

My favorite for now are the Mad Decent Worldwide Radio podcasts, and they are free.  It’s been described as NPR for the streets. (more…)

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Back when I had HBO, How to Make It in America, the story of two entrepreneurs trying to hustle in New York, was one of my favorite shows. I always wondered who sang the title song.

Come to find out it’s none other than Stones Throw Records’s Aloe Blacc.  (more…)