Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, Calvin Manson’s soulful production about the life and music of Nina Simone is a beautifully crafted piece. Four performers played Nina at different points in her life and took us from her humble beginnings to her training as a classical pianist and eventually becoming active in pursuing dreams of living…
Turn your dial to KPBS tomorrow for Morning Edition, and Mid-Day Edition to hear a special segment with Beth Accomondo on She-Rantulas From Outer Space- In 3D!” and program your DVRs to catch an in-depth exclusive on the production Friday night at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Evening Edition only with the KPBS Television channel! Buy your tickets here. AND…
I think it is possible to write a review of 12 Years a Slave and focus solely on its merits as a film, whether it will win Oscars, and how it could be already a classic. I think that would easily elide what the film and what films like it do to and do for…
http://youtu.be/et5br3riiaE New out artist Kenyth Mogan’s debut music video “Fall Apart” was released today. Written by Kenyth Mogan, Tyler Schuelke and Angelo Rosati Costa the track was produced by Tony Rodini. Describing the video Mogan told Huff Post Gay Voices Savas Abadsidis, “The video follows me and my boyfriend (played by my friend Tyler Schuelke) from…
Sometimes, you don’t know what to think. You hear both sides of a story, both conflicting. Rumors are whispered, denials issued, and you’re left to make up your own mind. Right or wrong, there are some things you’ll never know for sure. And that goes for what’s inside The Book of Matt by Stephen Jimenez….
dvd of the week Superman’s unfailing, idealistic, compassionate heroism has never existed in the real world, which is one of the most important reasons that he has been so attractive and so popular for so long. But in Zack Snyder’s massively hyped reboot of the storied franchise – which is written by David Goyer and…
dvr this ABC, Sundays, 9 p.m. I stopped watching Revenge, ABC’s horribly silly retribution soap opera, last year when I realized the chief avenger Emily (Emily VanCamp) was rather inconsistent with her avenging. I kept wondering why she hadn’t been able to take out her enemies the Graysons in the first few episodes. But then…
Despite the current respite from the government shutdown and near default, we aren’t really much closer to a real budget deal. House Republicans want to keep discretionary spending at the slashed levels of the sequester and decrease the deficit through cuts to entitlements like Medicare and Social Security. President Obama wants to ease the sequester…
“Jim Crow states passed statutes severely regulating social interactions between the races,” states a Web page for the Ferris State University’s Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. “Jim Crow signs were placed above water fountains, door entrances and exits, and in front of public facilities. There were separate hospitals for blacks and whites, separate prisons,…
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” – Leonard Bernstein “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day…
