Violinist Chelsey Green Live in D.C. Area This Week!

This is one bad sister...If you are in the DC-Bethesda-Baltimore areas, Chelsey Green and The Green Project will be live at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore on July 17th and the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club on July 19th. More information on purchasing tickets may be found Here. About Chelsey Green: Classically … Continue reading Violinist Chelsey Green Live in D.C. Area This Week!

Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist of South Africa, Passes Away at 90

    Full Body of Work: From Wikipedia Novels The Lying Days (1953) A World of Strangers (1958) Occasion for Loving (1963) The Late Bourgeois World (1966) A Guest of Honour (1970) The Conservationist (1974) – joint winner of the Booker prize in 1974 Burger's Daughter (1979) July's People (1981) A Sport of Nature (1987) My Son's Story (1990) None to Accompany Me (1994) The House Gun (1998) The Pickup (2001) … Continue reading Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist of South Africa, Passes Away at 90

Flannery O’Connor’s Only Two Known Recordings

From the Criterion Collection disc Wise Blood: Taped at the Dorothy Lamar Blount Lecture Series at Wesleyan College in 1960: (videos courtesy of http://www.BrainPickings.Org, with attached article by Maria Popova) While I am overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of inventions raging for slices of our finite attention, a carnival of art and creativity my generation only knows as contemporary … Continue reading Flannery O’Connor’s Only Two Known Recordings

A Few of My Favorite Things Now (Just a Few…)

   David Boykin's Soul Sessions in Chicago every Sunday from 2:00-5:00 at the Arts Incubator on 55th and Garfield (at Green Line), MacArthur Genius Grant-winning photographer Carrie Mae Weems and her current solo exhibit at the Guggenheim in New York City, Current reprise of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun starring Denzel Washington on Broadway (and … Continue reading A Few of My Favorite Things Now (Just a Few…)