Gay South Florida (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
(Come back tomorrow. This video changes daily.) THE ICONS 1. Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon 2. Stephen Sondheim 3. Gianni Versace 4. Sheila Kuehl 5. Tennessee Williams 6. Alice Walker 7. Greg Louganis 8. Bertrand Delanoë 9. Margaret Mead 10....
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
It’s Tuesday, September 30 and here’s today’s event calendar for NYC: Bryant Park lawn opens at 4 p.m. for free 5 p.m. concert by The Metropolitan Opera singing Verdi, Tosti, Donizetti, Puccini, and Mozart, and American songbook selections as part...
brownstoner (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Pete's Candy Store's Williamsburg Spelling Bee Season 8 of the Williamsburg Spelling Bee continues at Pete's Candy Store. Show off your spelling skills before the season ends. Tonight. No cover, open to all. Signup at 7 p.m., Bee starts...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Filed under: Entertainment Newswire , Entertainment Black Voices Blogs : By Karu F. Daniels, BlackVoices.comThe companion coffee table book to the critically acclaimed HBO documentary of the same name, 'The Black List,' arrived in bookstores and became available at online outlets on Sept. 16.And just like the remarkable... Read more
On The record Magazine (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Jermaine Dupri is being sued by a woman who claims he recorded their personal phone call for use in a song without her permission. Aika Kendrick is seeking $250,000 for the use of her vocals, according to TMZ.com. Daz Dillinger and Virgin Records are also named in the suit. *KOCH Records announces the release of [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
"Eurydice," Broadway's "Spring Awakening" and a new play by Mike Daisey are highlights of the fall theater season in Seattle.
On The record Magazine (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Jamie Foster Brown’s sister, Stella Foster, a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote in her Thursday column: “Usher has reportedly separated from much older wife, Tameka Foster, who reportedly is expecting their second child in December.” No further details were given. *Fela!, a new musical based on the life of groundbreaking African composer and [...]
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti started out studying medicine in London, before turning to music and leaving it in a much better place than it was when he found it. Along the way, he revolutionized world music, started his own political...
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
….and Bill T. Jones honors the late Nigerian musician Fela Kuti Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick. More about Fela Kuti Listen to African Music Videos here: http://video.africanmusicforum.com/ Related Posts May 13, [...] ]]>
The Wicked Stage (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
My preview piece on Bill T. Jones' new bio-musical Fela! is interesting for several reasons, but on a personal note as the public debut of my new byline .
TV Barn (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
"The Black List: Vol. 1" (8 p.m. Monday, HBO) features 22 prominent African-Americans talking about their lives and their work. Done in the Errol Morris talk-to-the-camera style, the 90-minute documentary culls the wisdom of dancer Bill T. Jones, Negro Leaguer...
BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Felicia R. Lee, New York Times - “They think I’m Jewish,” he says. “I’m in the Jewish book of famous people. But as far as, you know, on the professional level, I think it’s pretty common knowledge that I’m half black or whatever. I was never really fazed by the, sort of, the color barrier, you [...]
Politics on the Hudson (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Rockland artists and entertainers will perform and raise money for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign from 6 to 12 p.m. Sept. 27 at Riverspace Arts along Main Street in Nyack. The three-part celebration for the U.S. senator from Illinois will begin with a cocktail reception at Murasaki Restaurant on Main Street and ending with ‘after-parties” with a [...]
Lavish Magazine. For Rich Minds (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Trust, you want to see this Off-Broadway musical. I found out about it when one of my beloved dance teachers, Ismael Kouyaté announced that he had a role in the show. In this new musical, directed and choreographed by Tony Award® winner Bill T. Jones with a book by Jim Lewis and arrangements by Aaron Johnson and Antibalas, audiences are welcomed into the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
HOUSTON.- Bill T. Jones, Colin Powell, Chris Rock, Toni Morrison, Al Sharpton, Richard Parsons, Lorna Simpson, and Thelma Golden are just a few of those whose faces are seen and voices heard in The black list Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell, a highly personal documentary account of being black in America. This August the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, hosts the
