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1001 Paintings…
“1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die” *
This 996 page book, edited by Stephen Farthing, is described as:
“highly browsable guide embraces all cultures and every style of painting from 4,000 BC to the present. A visually arresting reference for art lovers and students, it provides a truly...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Books, Cable, Creativity, Events, Writers on 08 5th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Black Book Expo * LA August 21, 2010
Los Angeles will host its popular Black Book Expo again this year on Saturday 8/21 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel. This one day event will offer “authors, storytellers, spoken word and poetry performances, musicians, exhibitors, children’s book authors, emerging writers, publishers, booksellers,...
Posted by Sandy in Blogroll, Books, Culture, Education, Events, Learning on 07 19th, 2010 | No Comments
Black Book Expo – LA * August 21, 2010
Los Angeles will host its popular Black Book Expo again this year on Saturday 8/21 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel. This one day event will offer “authors, storytellers, spoken word and poetry performances, musicians, exhibitors, children’s book authors, emerging writers, publishers, booksellers,...
Harlem Book Fair & Arts Festival July 17th
12th Annual Harlem Book Fair & Arts Festival – the largest annual African American book fair and it’s free!
Featured on Friday, Saturday and Sunday July 17 until July19, will be over 200 exhibit booths, there will be music stages, panel discussions and children’s activities.
Harlem...
Bobby Kennedy – 1968
In a past issue of “Vanity Fair” magazine, there was 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...
Passage on the Underground
Today I got the chance to meet Stephen Marc again and to see his incredible book of photo montages and composites “Passage on the Underground“. Talking with Stephen is inspiring, full of lessons and new understanding about the history of the African in America.
While on his Underground Railroad...
Dancing Monk
Listening today to Robin D.G. Kelly on Fresh Air speak about his new book
Thelonious Monk
“Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original” and about Monk’s dancing in a circle. Kelly says that Monk was actually leading the rhythm section of the band or quartet when he...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Books, dvd on 10 22nd, 2009 | No Comments
DVD Corner: “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency”
“Precious Ramotswe“ is Botswana‘s only female private investigator – the main character of the HBO series, now on DVD. Directed by the late Anthony Minghella, “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency “, was produced for the BBC in 2008 and then shown in the U.S. in 2009. It is based...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Books, Writers on 10 14th, 2009 | No Comments
Book Corner: “Easy Rawlins’ Mysteries”
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...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Books, Theater, Writers on 10 10th, 2009 | No Comments
August Wilson Century Cycle
The ambitious intentions of a playwright resulted in the impressive, and enjoyable, “August Wilson Century Cycle” box set. It consists of a play for every decade of the 20th century that would chronicle some part of the black experience in America.
Now all 10 of his plays are together in one...
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