Alicia Adams has to have one of the best jobs in the world. She’s the vice president for international programs at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Her job takes her all over the world where she’s presented and introduced to new and traditional works in music, [...]
Back in the day, people used to buy what was called a “Dream Book” which interpreted your dreams into numbers. The numbers were relayed to the bookies, numbers writers, or whatever gambling outlet paid off on your dream. A dream with a baby was 123; a cat was 414. I think the [...]
Freddie Hubbard was one of my favorite jazz trumpet players. You always knew he was in the room. Sassy and smooth; cool and funky. He could knock out a solo that would make your soul leap out of your chest; and he could jam with the best of the rest.
If [...]
Community Cinema, the ITVS outreach initiative for the PBS series, “Independent Lens,” is presenting [FREE] community screenings and discussions of the documentary TULIA, TEXAS. Community Cinema holds monthly preview screenings across the country to encourage community dialogue on social issues and opportunities to get involved with local organizations and institutions.
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My first reading of the day was below the fold of the Washington Post newspaper: actress, cabaret singer, dancer, performer Eartha Kitt (1927 - 2009), and Nobel laureate playwright Harold Pinter (1930 - 2009) took their final bows during the Christmas Holiday. Both died of cancer.
EARTHA KITT
My first introduction to Eartha Kitt [...]
As the LGBTQ community continues to be upset, and rightfully so, about [Rev. Rick] Warren taking the podium/pulpit for the invocation to call the nation together for Obama’s inauguration as our 44nd president, we, the queers of America and our allies, need to keep in mind that the outgoing blessing and charge will be given [...]
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies has tapped poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher Elizabeth Alexander to deliver the inaugural poem January 20th. Alexander grew up in DC (Yay!). She teaches at Yale University and is a scholar of African American literature and culture. [Click on Alexander's name above to visit her [...]
I’m not sure if this is a word, but “geographism” does turn up in the web zone, just not the Webster zone. Maybe it’s a phobia - fear of not knowing where you are. So I’ll define how I’m using it in this post. What I’m referring to is being profiled, sized [...]
For the past two days NPRs been reporting on Keith Terry’s First International Body Music Festival in San Francisco. Body percussion and music is not the new thing — at least to me because one of my BFFs, David Pleasant, has been doing it like FOR-EVA. You see, David is Gullah, from the [...]
Another nasty habit in addition to checking political blogs…watching the entire SEX AND THE CITY DVDs after work time. I guess this is a symptom of post-election something. As much as I enjoyed the series [on DVD because I don't do cable], over the years, the 30-something (plus one 40 something) single woman [...]
