Recent Performing Arts Columns
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Friday, October 30 2009
Can Tyler Perry’s ‘For Colored Girls’ Resurrect BAM?Film adaptations from black masterpieces -- and the Chitlin Circuit -- are rejuvenating America's Black Arts Movement. (more Write Black at You) Friday, September 25 2009
Hal Ashby: Hollywood RebelFilms and books strive toward a common goal: telling a story. And very few modern filmmakers are as good at spinning a yarn as the late Hal Ashby was. (more Deconstruction Zone) Tuesday, September 8 2009
Louisiana Woman, Texas TroubadourNeed more duets in your life? Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb are among country music's best partnerships. (more Torch & Twang) Thursday, June 11 2009
Great Vibrations: An Interview with Gary BurtonOur jazz critic talks to Gary Burton about his reunion with Pat Metheny, about starting a "gentle" jazz-rock group, and that no one seems to know what a "vibraphone" really is. (more Jazz Today) Wednesday, February 11 2009
Beyond the Bubble of the GrammysThe Grammys suffer from the same problem as the rest of the recording industry: thinking America defines culture. (more Global Beat Fusion) Wednesday, February 4 2009
Across the Universe, for the Sixth TimeThis year's globalFEST was punctuated by performances from Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, La Troba Kung-Fu, Kailash Kher, Watcha Clan, and others -- a brave journey through the world of sounds, guided by open minds and big hearts. (more Global Beat Fusion) Tuesday, February 3 2009
Concert OverloadFree-for-all shows are like a "cool" parent trying to be your friend, instead of your authority figure. While it seems like a good situation at first -- no curfew, no rules -- you realize, eventually, that what it really needs is some structure. (more Mixtape Confessions) Thursday, September 25 2008
Retelling the Story of Black Music: Bert Williams, Godfather of the Black Stage & StudioBert Williams in blackface started a conversation about representing blackness within a mainstream context that has continued through virtually every crossover moment in black American life. (more Negritude 2.0)
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