Lena Horne

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-30)

Emptyage (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-30) : The Smiths Mos Def Charlie Parker Lena Horne Louis Armstrong Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Mike Smith: Archbishop Tutu Calls Obama Win a "Mandela Moment"

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008

Archbishop Desmond Tutu called the Obama win "a new era" for all Americans and echoed the words of Martin Luther King saying Obama has brought a message of hope.

free music friday: goldfrapp

wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008

Goldfrapp ‘Winter Wonderland’ Starbucks may have effectively put their Hear Music label on ice while its vast coffee empire weathers the financial storm, but their annual Christmas compilations have become something of an institutional imperative in recent years and we all know that this is the season to be economically reckless. Or so we’re told anyway. But [...]

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Pamela Hines Trio with Patrice Williamson at Ajc on December 12

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008

Patrice Williamson will sing songs from Pamela Hines's latest New Christmas. The Boston vocalist has made a name for herself with scat talents and with the vocal group ESP. $10.00 cover, Acton Jazz Cafe (MA) show starts at 7:00 pm. Acton Jazz Cafe 452 The Great Road (Behind the Collage Mall) Acton, MA 01720 978-263-6161...

Michael Shaw: Reading The Pictures: It's Nice To See A Brown Girl Get Some Attention

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008

In a cover story by Allison Samuels that includes the following very meaningful passage... As my brunch friends and I continued talking about Michelle,...

• It's Nice To See A Brown Girl Get Some Attention - BAGnewsNotes

New Podcast: Rachel Getting Married Pt. 1

Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008

Part 1 of 2: Rachel Getting Married Special When I interviewed screenwriter Jenny Lumet she claimed ignorance, blissful ignorance, when it came to the movie industry. While it's true that she grew up in a famous household (she calls legendary Lena Horne grandmother and one of Hollywood's most lauded filmmakers, Sidney Lumet, father) she didn't know the fine details of getting script to screen. She...

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Comments for becceratoo (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008

He and BB and my girl are going to have some similar complaints when they hit therapy one day... The only TV we've exposed her to thus far has been Old School Sesame Street (seriously, that's what they call it) and Muppet Show episodes/YouTube clips. But now my kid knows about Lena Horne, so it can't be all bad, right'michaela | 11.17.08 - 10:00 pm |

Arranger of musical wonderlands for eclectic group of popular artists

The Age (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008

Ray Ellis, the versatile pop music arranger who wrote the charts for hits by the Four Lads, Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, Doris Day and Johnny Mathis, has died of liver cancer in Los Angeles. He was 85.

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Comments for becceratoo (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008

Also, Michaela, BB is also a big fan of those Lena Horne sketches.

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Comments for becceratoo (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008

He definitely got the funny bone.

And you shall know us by the trail of our vinyl…

Jewlicious (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008

That was the Barry Sisters singing Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head. In Yiddish. I got this and other pop culture/Jew culture fusions from the blog for the new book “And You Shall Know Us By The Train of Our Vinyl” - put out by Josh Kunn and, yes, almost inevitably, Roger Bennet: Eight years ago, [...]

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Comments for becceratoo (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008

He and BB and my girl are going to have some similar complaints when they hit therapy one day... The only TV we've exposed her to thus far has been Old School Sesame Street (seriously, that's what they call it) and Muppet Show episodes/YouTube clips. But now my kid knows about Lena Horne, so it can't be all bad, right?

Singing and acting divas look ahead

USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008

Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys co-star in the movie adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees. But they're part of ...

The butler did it - serving eight presidents

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008

From Truman to Reagan, he handled 'em all. Eugene Allen saw history as it happened for 34 years.

The butler sees a new White House

LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008

Now retired, he started when blacks were in the kitchen. For more than three decades, Eugene Allen worked in the White House, a black man unknown to the headlines. During some of those years, harsh segregation laws lay upon the land.