Thursday night at Barnes & Noble, Union Square, author E L James graced us with her presence. The place was packed to the rafters. Those of you who have not yet read The Books! The British stiff upper lip has just smirked!…..
May 11, 2012
May 11, 2012
Having my book signed by E L James!
April 29, 2012
Todd Duncan, the pioneering opera singer, circa 1930s. Mr. Duncan was the first African-American to perform with a major opera company, the New York City Opera. Other career highlights include being selected by George Gershwin to originate the role of Porgy in “Porgy and Bess” and being the first person to record the now classic song, “Unchained Melody.” Mr. Duncan also held a master’s degree from Columbia University and taught voice at Howard University for over fifty years, well into his nineties. He died in 1998.
April 26, 2012
Do you ever get enough of Josephine Baker? I don’t! Here, she is in Christian Dior in March 1951, singing into a mic which conceals her hand-held corsage onstage at the Strand theater in New York during her US tour. Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
April 26, 2012
“My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity”
— Malcolm X
April 25, 2012
Fifty Shades…….
So after a reading hiatus, I joined the hype and decided to read THE BOOKS!
They did not disappoint, yes there is alot of sex, more sex and did I mention sex, but and this a big but (maybe I need to stop thinking about Christian Grey), I loved the storyline. I’m giving no spoilers here!
For those of you in NYC, just a little whisper in your ear, E L James will be at Barnes and Noble, Union Square on the 10th May @ 7 pm. Should be a very interesting night……see you there!
April 12, 2012
In the year since my diagnosis with leukemia, I’ve struggled to hold on to a sense of who I am while I watch the person in the mirror change, writes Suleika Jaouad.
April 09, 2012
Paul Robeson, majestic singer and actor, brilliant scholar and athlete, fierce political activist and all-around renaissance man, was born on this day in 1898. He is seen here in 1925 in a photo by the famed British photographer Alex Stewart Sasha. Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis.
April 07, 2012
Billie Holiday, seen here with her beloved dog, Mister, in a photo by Carl Van Vechten, was born on this day in 1915. Little did Eleanora Fagan know that she would be remembered forever.
Glad she is!
April 03, 2012
Vintage Black Glamour remembers the great artist and activist Elizabeth Catlett, who died at her home in Mexico on April 2, 2012. She is pictured here circa 1949 in a photo by Mariana Yampolsky.
