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Sep.19.2010
Gina Misiroglu of RedRoom.com has enabled me to post my second original essay about my book, co-authored with Steve Roby, Becoming Jimi Hendrix. This time, my AOL piece, rather than concentrating on Jimi's racial identity in the early 60s, explores his phenomenal scope of musical genres, which ran...
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May.30.2010
Sayles and Renzi give us a winner in Honeydripper, 29 May 2010 Author: vnikolaidis-1 from Greece
John Sayles and Maggie Renzi have offered their audiences so many entertaining 'slice of life' movies but this is the best one yet. Slow and lazy times in the South don't necessarily mean the...
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May.03.2010
I had the privilege recently of helping celebrate the works of Langston Hughes at an annual National Poetry Month event organized by one of Santa Barbara’s exceptional poets and teachers, Sojourner Kincaid Rolle.
Rolle had asked me to talk about what lessons Hughes’ lifelong work might hold for...
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