SPIKE LEE’S NEXT REQUIEM
After visiting New Orleans for the first time in 2007, I bought my own DVD copy of “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts,” Spike Lee’s HBO documentary about the slow emergency and recovery response to the Katrina tragedy. The documentary was one of the few voices at [...]
This is the live feed from BP of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. They’ve restarted the “top kill” process of shooting heavy drilling mud into the hole to essentially “plug it up.” The video source and ticker is from PBS’s Newshour. The live feed was ordered by the U.S. [...]
Gustavo Dudamel’s October 8 inaugural gala concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall (seriously folks) will be featured on PBS’s Great Performances tonight at 8 PM (EST). Check local listings.
For those of you who’ve kept up with eclectique|916, I attended a rehearsal of the Venezuela’s Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in April. Dudamel started his [...]
As promised (to myself), I completed a clip to promote my documentary foodie project “The Church Lady Cake Diaries.” Let me set this up. This clip features Johari Rashad. By day she’s a federal government employee (not appointed) and professional development trainer. On Saturdays she attends the Capitol Hill Seventh-day Adventist [...]
There are some friends that you can only keep up with through their press releases. That’s my friend Phillip Rodriguez of Los Angeles. Maybe we can chat up an interview for Eclectique916. Phillip is also one of the most talented documentarians I know. His latest (at least what’s completed and on [...]
If trees would talk
wonder what they’d tell me
Nikki Giovanni - “Alabama Poem”
Ken Burns is certainly going to try to give nature a voice in his latest epic 6-part mini-series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Last night (Sunday) was the premiere on PBS. Ten hours left. No better time [...]
I wasn’t a big reader in my early years; but I could read. My parents read to me, my sister, even my older cousins. We got free books in school. I remember each of us got a set of Dr. Seuss books: Stop That Ball, One Fish, Two Fish, Three Fish, [...]
Anna Wintour’s 60 Minutes interview - I guess the most revealing moment of this one-on-one with the 59-year-old editor of American Vogue is that she removed her signature shades to talk with Morley Safer. I see Wintour’s “decisiveness” as her strength in the fashion industry; others may hate her for it. But there [...]
The American Experience, PBS’s American history documentary series, continues to fill the gaps in our nation’s historical narrative — and not just reading between the lines. “We Shall Remain” features five iconic stories from our American history — Native American stories.
Some stories will appear slightly familiar - the Mayflower, Geronimo; [...]
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.
ABOUT TULIA, TEXAS: [...]
