Review

Pete Sampras * “A Champion’s Mind: Lessons From A Life In Tennis”

Tennis is one of my favorite couch potato sports. It is physical, it is mental, it is attitude – who has more of the “right stuff” on a particular day, who has it during a particular set, or even a single [...]

Summer seems to be a time for books – it’s a good thing!

*Los Angeles Black Book Expo – Sat., June 14, 2008

The Los Angeles Black Book Expo (LABBX) 2008 will feature authors, storytellers, spoken word and poetry performances, musicians, exhibitors, children’s book authors, emerging writers, publishers, booksellers, [...]

“Those that stop their questioning at 75, 60, even 30, cut short their explorations and end up with permanently unfinished lives.” (From “Life Beyond Measure: Letter to My Great-Granddaughter”)

Wise octogenarian Sydney Poitier has been a national treasure for quite awhile. He’s won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a [...]

In the June issue of “Vanity Fair” magazine, page 116, there is a feature about Bobby Kennedy called “The Last Good Campaign”. It is a meld of a collection of pictures from “A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the 60’s”, by Life Magazine photographer Bill Eppridge and text from a book that covers some [...]

I enjoyed “Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun”, a PBS “American Masters” documentary that I watched last week.

Ms Hurston, 1891 – 1960, started to publish right after the height of the Harlem Renaissance. The ability to support oneself with art that explored the African-American experience waned with the onset of the depression [...]

We all know that he writes, he sings, he’s a poet, he’s a musician - he just received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” Nice, but, did you know that Bob Dylan also paints?!

His book of his art work, [...]

I got tagged by James Neil Hollingsworth a delightful and thoughtful painter. I am now required to list 5 little known facts about myself, then “tag” five other artists to do the same.
Here are my five:

When I was 15 I had this mad infatuation (nothing more) with a niece of Edvard Munch. We worked together [...]

                   “Writing was … the most extraordinary way of thinking and feeling. It became the one thing I was doing that I had absolutely no intention of living without.”  Toni Morrison
Decided to clean, clear, coordinate, control my bookcase contents.  Found some great stuff that I had forgotten. I discovered that I own a lot of [...]

              
FYI - in case you decided not to crochet/knit holiday gift items and/or you won’t re gift that door stopper fruit cake (as a matter of principle)
“30,000 YEARS OF ART- THE STORY OF HUMAN CREATIVITY ACROSS TIME AND SPACE“ is a book that charts the history of art from 28,000 BC to the present day. It [...]

  
Blonde Faith, is the final book of the popular series, written by Walter Mosley.
We were introduced to Easy Rawlins in Devil in a Blue Dress, 1990. (This was also made into a great 1995 movie with Denzel as “Easy” and Don Cheadle as his explosively, lethal buddy “Mouse”.)
“Easy” becomes a reluctant private investigator in 50’s [...]