Culture
- Written by: William Hunn
- Category: Culture
Carol King was one of the most prolific song writers no one ever heard of before the release of her breakout album “Tapestry” released 45 years ago (1971).
Her vast songbook, including those co-written with Gerry Goffin, are among some of the most widely recorded songs of the last 60 years.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Culture
The ongoing literary controversy over Harper Lee's newly discovered manuscript, Go, Set a Watchman, seems to mimic our attitude of downplaying the true, racist nature of the American experience – both pre- and post-1776.
The Harper Lee novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published in 1960. Since then, it has been an icon of modern American literature. It created an offshoot, cinematic icon when Gregory Peck was chosen to represent Atticus Finch, the noble protagonist of the book. The locale of the story is a small town in the southern U.S. state of Alabama. The narrator is a young girl, Scout. She and her brother spend adolescent time spying on a weird neighbor. Their widowed father is Atticus, who is a lawyer. He is a paragon of fairness and justice. He challenges the starkly racist societal norms and the Ku Klux Klan when he defends a Black man unfairly charged with rape.
- Written by: Gregory Boyce
- Category: Culture
A Tribute to Satchmo
At the turn of the 20th Century, music in America was dramatically changing. No longer were tunes from German pianist Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) or American Harvard music professor / pianist, John Knowels Paine (1839-1906) the spark that ignited the fire of a new and rambunctious generation of music loving Americans.
Read more: And the World called him Satchmo: The Remarkable Louis Armstrong
- Written by: Robert Easey
- Category: Culture
So after a late start, the season finally caught up with us here in Wisconsin. A whole bunch of Robins who decided to stay around have got to be regretting that decision after a week of single digit temperatures. At least one Heron and a couple of Kingfishers that decided to stay around for the open water have got to be rethinking a few things about now.
- Written by: William Hunn
- Category: Culture
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: The Road Trip
One of my favorite genres of American movies is the ROAD TRIP. The road trip is a uniquely American institution dating all the way back to the westward expansion. Imagine walking to Oregon, along with your dysfunctional family, beside your Conestoga wagon full of all your worldly possessions.
- Written by: Christopher Barnet
- Category: Culture
horsey ô horsey
ebony horsey
horsey
un ebony ocean
horsey
beloved
black horsey
beloved
beauty
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Culture
Listening to the disembodied ebony-tinted shrieks of rejection emanating from Hollywood, one might imagine that the Ku Klux Klan had appropriated the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences, and replaced the Hollywood Sign with a flaming cross! Reportedly, the situation is so offensive that some African American artists and filmmakers are promoting boycott for the Oscar Award ceremonies, to protest the fact that their or someone else's work was rejected by the Academy. The wife of a well-known African American actor is suggesting a separate but equal academy for those being so horribly discriminated against in the present set-up. A Martian reading this might perceive that there certainly must be some form of inter-species unfairness afoot here. There very well may have been – but, to a reasonable eye, this ain't it! Some cogent facts:
- Written by: Christopher Barnet
- Category: Culture
horsey ô horsey
ebony horsey
code
you confirmed
under sheets
of streets
& seas
