It is with a heavy, heavy heart that I write this post. In the last hour I learned that David Mills aka “Undercover Black Man” died yesterday in New Orleans from a brain aneurysm. He was working on set for the HBO series “Treme.” Eclectique|916 featured an interview with David last summer. I shake as [...]
The Washington Post’s Peeps Show/Contest has become one of my favorite spring traditions. And this year is no exception in terms of creativity and talent. I never thought Peeps were food in the first place. Always left them in my Easter basket. My favorites were the chocolate anything and the colored eggs. This year the [...]
If there’s anyone who personifies the “eclectique citizen,” it’s Ruben Blades. Yesterday, my friend Dawn and I arrived 3 hours before he was to give a public interview covering his life as an artist, citizen, and just plain old human being at the Carmichael Auditorium in the National Museum of American History and Culture. The [...]
All my life, I lived or was schooled by the adages “The show must go on.” “One monkey don’t stop no show.” What happened with Terrence McNally’s “Lips Together, Teeth Apart” at Roundabout Theater in NYC?? – Actress Megan Mullally quits before the April 9 preview performances and the show’s cancelled. Help me Ethel Merman! [...]
Is Reading Rainbow really coming back?! [Tweet from host LeVar Burton.]
Transcript. Gee waking up this morning felt like Christmas. I ran to my computer to see what Santa left me under the tree. Maybe not exactly what I wanted, but a gift nevertheless. An historic heath care reform bill passed last night with 219 votes (only 216 were needed). And I said I wouldn’t sit [...]
The final vote on health care reform will take place tonight. All the procedural voting is done and it appears that the House Democrats have their minimum votes to pass the bill with the sounding of the gavel perhaps the same one held by Representative John Dingell (D-MI) when Medicare passed in 1965. This health [...]
It’s down to the wire on health care reform. Tomorrow’s the vote on the Hill. Rather than embed the President’s weekly, I thought today’s speech to the Democratic House was worth the post space. You can read and/or watch the President’s Weekly at this link. This is the weekend of protests in the nation’s capital. [...]
Quote of the day: Who took the old Kucinich and replaced him with this pragmatic one? I like this new look much better. Markos Moulitsas, Daily Kos This week President Obama invited Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich to take a ride with him on Air Force One. Kucinich was one of the “progressive” holdouts on the [...]
“You’re worth more dead than alive….” Mr. Potter, “It’s a Wonderful Life” Nine months after Michael Jackson’s death, his estate has signed one of the biggest recording contracts in history, giving Sony, Mr. Jackson’s longtime label, the rights to sell his back catalog and draw on a large vault of unheard recordings. Ben Sisario, The [...]
