Gemal Woods is doing something exciting out of his Park Triangle shop. And this blog has mentioned it before. It’s “The Angle.” A few weeks ago I went to check it out in person. Did I hear him say he has 2000 interviews recorded? Obviously there’s more to this than just an angle. I’m giving [...]
A lot of stuff is about to close down come 2012 — here in DC. There are a few things I’d like to see; one, I’ve already been there and done. Andy Warhol’s Headlines National Gallery of Art – until January 2, 2012 This one’s a maybe. It got a lot of good local press [...]
Many moons ago, I had this wish to go to New York and have Andy Warhol do my portrait. It never happened and I’m sure there are apps that can give one a Warholic hue. Friends at Busboys and Poets have collaborated with the recent National Gallery retrospective of Warhol’s “Headlines” work in what’s call [...]
We have no symbolic life, and we are all badly in need of the symbolic life. Only the symbolic life can express the need of the soul – the daily need of the soul, mind you! And because people have no such thing, they can never step out of this mill – this awful, banal, [...]
Too much, too much. June must be the final push on the event scene before people begin dispersing to the vacation scene. Again, just scratching the surface: ITVS COMMUNITY CINEMA PRESENTS – “TWO SPIRITS” June 5 at 3 PM (Washington DC Jewish Community Center) June 12 at 5 PM (Busboys and Poets) FREE – For [...]
MARDI GRAS FAT TUESDAY – MARCH 8 Rio, Mobile Alabama, New Orleans, Trinidad Tobago, Venice, Quebec City, Sydney, Belgium, Germany….Last party day before Lent. Here’s a clip from my friend Philip Day’s documentary “Inside Rio Carnival.” ACTORS,DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS The Department of Radio, TV & Film at Howard University presents CASTING AND AUDITIONING FOR YOU: THE [...]
I’ve never seen the NYC window displays at night. Boy, did I almost miss something at Saks Fifth Avenue across from Rockefeller Center! [Snowflake & Bubbles] Here’s just a taste. Bergdorf Goodman is always on the level of art. Fashion is art. Windows are canvas with a built-in frame. This year’s theme was “Wish You [...]
Just scratching the surface… American Public Television (APT) is streaming episodes of the series “Voces” including the documentary Celia: The Queen about the one and only la reina of salsa. Catch it through October 31st at www.voces.tv. Lois Malou Jones: A Life In Vibrant Color Opening October 9 at the National Museum of Women in [...]
Rev. Rob Hardies, senior minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC (my member church), sent this letter from Hiroshima via our church’s e-blast list. In 1947 Rev. A. Powell Davies, then senior minister of All Souls, was so moved by the devastation and impact of the atomic bomb dropped on the city 65 [...]
via my friend Marsha…. Frida twittered us and says she’s baking her birthday cake and getting her papers in order. Hopefully the Border Patrol will let her enter Arizona without a hassle in time for her 103rd birthday celebration at Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop. Born on July 6, 1907, Frida has requested [...]
