Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars-Good Stuff

Raw and pure. We sometimes forgot what its like to listen to live music or at least music recorded live, without the slick mixing machines. I remember when Barry White had his first concert in New York and I asked someone who attended, how was the concert? “He sounded like the record” was his...

Pollock, DeKooning, Rothko – $4.40 each!

The Post Office may be contemplating cutting out Saturday mail, but they still deliver when it comes to developing a new stamp series.  At the beginning of March, paintings from 10 Abstract Expressionists were issued as a group on a $4.40 First Class sheet – great opportunity to purchase art at an...

Robert Culp-Those Were the Days

The title of this post is not misplaced. It is an acknowledgment of Robert Culp, who passed away recently. “Those were the days” when seeing a African American Actor on TV triggered a call to all your neighbors to make sure they were watching the same program you were. “I Spy”, which...

Happy Birthday Aretha!

Happy Birthday March 25, 2010 – you are a treasure! “Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul” This fabulous CD (October, 2007), covers the years 1966 to 1974. It has some unreleased songs, some outtakes and of course some of those familiar classics that did...

Morris Graves – Mysticism and Symbolism

The 100th birthday of American painter Morris Graves, (1910-2001) is celebrated with the exhibit “The Visionary Art of Morris Graves“ at the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco CA until May 15th.  “…Largely a self-taught artist closely associated with the Pacific Northwest region of the United...