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FROM BLACK TO GREEN and back to poetry. [by E. Ethelbert Miller]
So there we were (yesterday ) sitting in the historical Thurgood Marshall Center (located at 1816 12th Street, NW). I thought I heard Langston Hughes walking around outside the room. The Marshall Center is…
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“We was wit’ you, at Rigoletto’s!” (by Laura Orem)
Today marks the anniversary of the first ever performance of Guiseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, which premiered in Venice in 1851. By all accounts, it was an instant smash, and the next morning, Venetians were heard…
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Eric Ambler on the Human Face by Jim Cummins
This paragraph leads off Chapter 14 of Eric Ambler's A Coffin for Dimitrios (Knopf, 1939; published in England under the title The Mask of Dimitrios): A man's features, the bone structure and the tissue…
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Stand by me [by E. Ethelbert Miller]
The Split This Rock Poetry Festival started yesterday. I missed the opening ceremony and the featured readings with Andrea Gibson, Wang Ping, Cornelius Eady, Holly Bass, Beny Blaq and Derrick Weston Brown. I was…
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‘Mad Men’ dolls: Barbie and Ken get some competition
Not content to daydream about the scenarios in which you'd like to place your favorite characters from Mad Men? Bored waiting for the new season to begin? Play with dolls. Barbie dolls. Barbie dolls…
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From the KGB Files . . .
Tom Healy and Mark Doty read to a very full KGB Bar on Monday night. Tom read from his first book, What The Right Hand Knows (a finalist for the LA Times Book Award).…
