Contents A FILM FOR WOMEN BY WOMEN SINGLETON CONTINUES MAGIC ON STAGE LOIS ROACH AND ANOTHER POWER PLAY NOTORIOUS B.I.G. EXPLODES ON BIG SCREEN DIDION’S ‘MAGICAL THINKING’ MAKES US THINK ‘REVOLUTIONARY ROAD” IS REVOLUTIONARY MCKNIGHT’S ORIGINAL SONG ON OBAMA DVD UP-COMING EVENTS A FILM FOR WOMEN BY WOMEN by Kay Bourne(Click above image of CAMILLE [...]

Contents SUESSICAL DELIVERS GREAT FUN AT WHEELOCK INTIMATE APPAREL SEWS A TELLING TALE JOAN RIVERS WRITES ABOUT MURDER ACCOMPLISHED REVIVAL: THE CORN IS GREEN BOSTON HONORS ROXBURY MUSIC PRODUCERS LOVE IS IN THE AIR AT DINNER & A MOVIE CHANGE & TRANSITION UP-COMING EVENTS SUESSICAL DELIVERS GREAT FUN AT WHEELOCK by Kay Bourne(Angela Williams as [...]

Contents NEC’s TRIBUTE TO CALVIN HICKS CARNIVAL BY LUMPKINS URT SPELLS HOPE RINGGOLD’s STORY QUILTS BLACKSTREET - THE REUNION SAVE THE DATE - SCARRED JUSTICE CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF - IMPRESSIVE! BISHOP HARRIS ON HBO & CELEBRATES 20 YEARS UP-COMING EVENTS NEC’s TRIBUTE TO CALVIN HICKS by Kay Bourne CALVIN L. HICKS walked [...]

Contents SOUTH CAROLINA AWAITS JUSTICE STORIES OF SLAVERY PLAYED OUT IN DANCE HAYNE’S LIFE IN MUSIC CELEBRATED WITH LOVE FULLER PRESENTS “CRAFTS IN AMERICA” NATIONAL CENTER EXHIBITS ISLAND WORK UP-COMING EVENTS SOUTH CAROLINA AWAITS JUSTICE by Kay Bourne(pictured: Judy Richardson interviewing Cleveland Sellers) The Black citizens of Orangeburg, South Carolina still wait for justice. In [...]

Contents WHAT’S YOUR JAZZ? ABAKA AND DOWD CROWNED AT IRNE’S TWO WORLDS IN ONE NO.1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY SWEETENS HBO EMMETT TILL STORY AT BERKLEE CROWLEY FILM REVIEWS MESMORIZING EARTH /SOLID SOLOIST GOOD FOR THE SOUL McCORD’s BASH UP-COMING EVENTS WHAT’S YOUR JAZZ? by Kay Bourne(pictured: Frank Wilkins) New to Boston, jazz music lover PAULINE [...]

Contents AATF BEGINS WITH ‘MOTHER G” SUDANESE MUSICIAN VISITS AMAARP NEC JAZZ PROGRAM TURNS 40 MARSHALL MIXES MEMORIES WITH HISTORY SHAKESPEARE COMES TO HIBERNIAN HALL UP-COMING EVENTS AATF BEGINS WITH ‘MOTHER G” by Kay Bourne (L to R: Garry Bates, Lakeisha Gilliard, David J. Curtis (back) Marvelyn McFarlane (front) Linda Starks-Walker, Alphonzo Moultrie (U/S) Latonya [...]

Contents BEN’s TRUMPET BALLETROX & WFT ANIME BOSTON UP-COMING EVENTS BEN’s TRUMPET BALLETROX & WFT by Kay Bourne(pictured: Rey Guity as Ben and Ilanga as the Trumpeter) “Tony Williams’ The Urban Nutcracker,” (now going into its 9th season) has been wonderfully successful; his new choreographed dance sensation “BEN’s TRUMPET” deserves a similar future. Co-sponsored by [...]

Contents THE PIANO FACTORY EXHIBITS “JASIRI” ALL ABOUT LOVE TONY GOES TO ROGER ROBINSON A GARLAND TRIBUTE IN STONEHAM UP-COMING EVENTS & COMMUNITY INFORMATION THE PIANO FACTORY EXHIBITS “JASIRI” by Kay Bourne(pictured: Maddu in front of rajah’s palace “Fatah Morgana”) For the artist who is a woman, an identity of one’s own is as significant [...]

Contents STAR OF ORIGINAL “DREAMGIRLS” AT RFF09 GIBBS GRACES RFF WITH WARMTH WHO IS THIS LENA HORNE? “ESCAPE: Works by FRITZ DUCHEINE” PUBLIC ENEMIES HAS A FEW… A LANDMARK CONCERT: 35 YEARS LATER UP-COMING EVENTS & COMMUNITY INFORMATION STAR OF ORIGINAL “DREAMGIRLS” AT RFF09 by Kay Bourne(click on Obba’s image to go to the “WHY [...]

Contents WILSON’S FENCES COMES TO THE HUNTINGTON COLTRANE CONCERT CELEBRATES 32 YEARS BRANDON MATTHIEUS TALKS ABOUT JERSEY BOYS AN INTERVIEW AND REVIEW ON JULIA CHILD FILM PONYO DELIGHTS BOTH KIDS AND ADULTS UP-COMING EVENTS & COMMUNITY INFORMATION WILSON’S FENCES COMES TO THE HUNTINGTON by Kay Bourne(pictured: Dwight D. Andrews) When DWIGHT D. ANDREWS, then the [...]

Contents LEON CONTINUES WILSON’s WORK THE DRAMA OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN “FENCES” DREW APPEAL ROXBURY REPERTORY THEATER WORKS A MIRACLE 2009 NEWBERY HONORS A NEW URBAN THEATER DEBUTS HALEY HOUSE DINNER & A MOVIE GOES RAW CALYPSO & COMEDY AT THE STRAND NY’s IRISH REP PRESENTS EMPOROR JONES DA GOODIE MONSTA COMES TO BOSTON UP-COMING [...]

Contents LITERACISE AT BPL UNTIL MARCH 2010 EGYPTIAN SECRETS UNEARTHED MIDSUMMERS NIGHT DREAM AT RCC THIS IS IT! HALEY HOUSE BAKERY CAFE´ NEWS MAN GONE DOWN WINS THE MAGNETISM OF BOONDOCK SAINTS II GOOD HAIR? UP-COMING EVENTS & COMMUNITY INFORMATION LITERACISE AT BPL UNTIL MARCH 2010 by Kay Bourne The excited child dashed from the [...]

Contents HOLMES DESIGNS FIRST NIGHT BUTTON PRINCESS TIANA SAYS: FOLLOW YOUR DREAM BAKER IN BEST OF BOTH WORLDS ‘PRECIOUS’ A HARD BUT HOPEFUL STORY MANDELA UNITES NATION THRU RUGBY MEN’S BOOK OFFERS MOMENTS OF TRUTH EVERY DAY PRINCIPLES OF KWANZAA HAPPY HOLIDAYS UP-COMING EVENTS & COMMUNITY INFORMATION HOLMES DESIGNS FIRST NIGHT BUTTON by Kay BourneFREE [...]