Hello You Faithful Subscribers! Thank you so much for sticking with me for another year of blogging. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for my blog and I thought I’d share it with you: Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,400… Continue reading 2014 in review
Category: The Skinny
Through a Lens Darkly ~ New Documentary on PBS
FILM: Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People Had the pleasure and good luck to see this film while in DC for A.J. Verdelle’s 12-13-14 party, in fact went to the screening with A.J. I thought the pacing could use some pep, but the content more than makes up for that.… Continue reading Through a Lens Darkly ~ New Documentary on PBS
A Path Appears ~ Series on PBS starts TONIGHT 10/9c
Thanks to blog follower and friend, Cynthia Ladd-Viti, I just found out about this, so rushing to let you know. The four hour documentary, A Path Appears from Independent Lens—based on the stellar book by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn—starts tonight on PBS. Set those DVRs to record. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcHSWoMJF_Q?rel=0&w=560&h=315]
Olivia Davis is at “The Starting Line”
Singer, songwriter Olivia Davis is 20 years old and just released her first CD: The Starting Line. Olivia was a year ahead of our daughter, Miranda, in high school at Marin Academy, San Rafael, California. For three years we enjoyed her music performances with various bands; always wanting to hear more from her. It’s wonderful to… Continue reading Olivia Davis is at “The Starting Line”
Ava DuVernay ~ Film Director (Selma)
Ava DuVernay…where have you been all my life?? This dynamic woman understands something my friend and editor A.J. Verdelle preaches all the time: Clarity is not negotiable. In her recent Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross, DuVernay was very clear about her artistic vision for the film, Selma: with regard to Oyelowo’s portrayal of… Continue reading Ava DuVernay ~ Film Director (Selma)
Post Card from THE BIG EASY!
Landed in New Orleans today! Standing in line, in the rain at Café Du Monde. One word: beignets…SOOOO GOOOD!!
Happy New Year from Albany, Georgia!
Solstice Offering ~ In light of homelessness
Wherever you dwell on the planet, just as we share the same inscrutable sun, we share a dire universal problem ~ homelessness. Ray Charles sang: “None of us are free if one of us is chained ~ none of us are free”. I live in Marin County, California—just across the Golden Gate from San Francisco—where the divide… Continue reading Solstice Offering ~ In light of homelessness
So long NYC
When you have four hours to kill at Kennedy airport there are many things designed to part you from your money. After a stellar trip, my 11:30 flight left at 10 AM and I gave in to a $15 gin and tonic.
12~13~14 A New Era begins…
We rocked the night away here in Washington DC at The Henley Park hotel! AJ Verdelle’s party was a grand cross generational celebration of friends, family, food and MUSIC by a skillful DJ with a playlist spanning the decades represented in the room.