Wednesday 23 May 2012
If any actor-writer’s shoes are hard to fill, it’s the pair that belongs to Daniel Beaty, the hardest-working thespian off-Broadway. This Saturday, May 12, the hugely popular actor adds yet another multi-faceted character to his list of “long-running” cameos when he debuts the one-act play, Mr. Joy, as a New York-based Chinese shoe storeowner....
“… you haven’t heard anything till hear her voice; she’s about to take the industry by storm.” Dionne Warwick said these glowing remarks during an interview conducted for a CBS Television Network special taping in Canada, winter 1983. Here I was freezing in Quebec, a senior publicity executive for CBS Television Network (and the...
Dr. Josephine English, beloved matriarch, real estate magnate, theatre arts trailblazer and medical doctor who counselled Malcolm X — a woman truly ahead of her time who epitomized the ultimate multitasker, passed Sunday (18) at the Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. English leaves a tremendous legacy. Her...
On Thursday, December 1, 2011 from 6pm-9pm at the Victorian Mansion, 247 Hancock Street, Brooklyn, NY, “something special will happen in Bedford-Stuyvesant!,” says Valerie Durrah, Founder and CEO of The Neighborhood Technical Assistance Clinic (NTAC), an organization which specializes in giving individuals and groups the tools and resources that truly make things happen for...
Last Saturday, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and his lovely wife, First Lady Diane Patrick, an attorney, along with hundreds of friends, supporters and family members proved you can go home again — especially when home is Brooklyn. The Patricks joined celebrants in the co-naming of Jefferson Avenue, between Tompkins and Throop, as Bertram L....
Harlem Sunday Last Sunday, we covered Harlem: 145th Street, down Frederick Douglass Boulevard to 123rd Street, north to 125th Street, across to Lenox. We stopped in swell venues, bristling with the life of one art form or another: Harlem School of the Arts, Dwyer Cultural Center and more. Enjoyed the music of the United...
When the Apollo Theatre’s thick velvet burgundy curtains rise for The 15th Annual Black Nutcracker/Uptown Dance Academy gala presentation, on Thursday, December 16 in Harlem, the audience will experience a grand and beautiful display of genius in action, grace in motion and more. Many hands, many hours, many hundreds of details and a modicum...
Seven Runners Score in Top Ten Combined Men’s & Women’s Categories THE BIG WIN There are wins based on besting others. There are wins based on personal best. There are wins determined by endurance and going the distance. Then there are wins associated with the successful relaying of the baton or by the simple...
Lately, there has been good news coming out of the Capital Region. And thanks to Brooklyn Rescue Mission Farm owners The Reverends DeVanie Jackson and Robert Jackson, we’ve learned there’s great food and hospitality being served up there (and as of last Sunday, here), as well. Yes, indeed. The Jackson’s brought Noah Sheetz, the...
It was Taaeba Fattah’s account of her March trip to Bali with her mother, Nadia, and friends Sheila Szklanny and Leslie Wilks that turned us on to Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love bestseller that’s enjoying a new surge of interest due to the Columbia Pictures film of the same title starring Julia Roberts and...
