The 16th Annual Charlie Parker Festival
Throughout the forties, Charlie Parker revolutionized jazz and immortalized the Lower East Side by capturing its combustive atmosphere and translating it into music. It is no wonder that every year the Lower East Side returns a little bit of the favor by celebrating Charlie Parker, his life and his legacy, as well as his deep rooted relationship with this neighborhood, through A Gathering of the Tribes' Charlie Parker Festival.
This year, A Gathering of the Tribes is please to present the 16th Annual Charlie Parker Festival, entitled "BIRD LIVES," from August 2 - August 29. More information about this year's festival can be found here
The Highway Doom, Of the Memory, Of the Grace by Christopher HeffernanSam Shepard’s new book of stories, Day Out of Days, is a romp through the highways of America, through the personal history of the narrators, as well as through the historical past of the many areas of the States that the highways touch and pass through, that is often as brutal […]
Frances Chung: A Chinese American Woman’s Plight. By: Susan Yungthe winter wind sits in the living room
so we huddle in the kitchenin our winter coats looking silly
and too cold to do anything
but light a candle eat melon seeds
as I wonder
what do we wear when we go outside?
— poem by Frances Chung, p. 25, 1970
from “Crazy Melon & Green Apples”
On November 8, 2009, I picked […]
“This Neighborhood is Too Dangerous”: Fela Kuti on Broadway By: Brian BoylesWhat is the relationship between the scorched drawers of a Nigerian bourgeois teenager and a hot Broadway musical dedicated to a Nigerian revolutionary musician? How did America evolve to a point where we cower at the potential of the former while warmly embracing the latter? Are we really simultaneously safer and more in danger than […]
The Worst Book I Ever Read. By the Unbearables. Reviewed by Kevin Riordan
Welcome to the Labyrinth of multiple negatives. Books so bad they’re
perfect to pillory populate the latest Unbearables anthology, a
lavish production whose reach tries strenuously to exceed its grasp; but
nobody grasps like an Unbearable. The world is their oyster and it isn’t
easily digestible.
Even without counting graphic artists such as David Sandlin, Kaz, and
Ken Brown, over […]
Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica by Amy OuzoonianIt’s mid-December and the temperature in New York has finally reached 46 degrees. New Yorkers clamor for their sweaters and snow boots and complain that it hasn’t been the sunny 65 degrees they were spoiled with up to this point.
It’s December, the sparrows in New York have not gone south and they’re fighting over a […]
January CalendarCurrent Show: Language Paintings
Philip J. Hardy / Michael Gibson:
Closing Party January 27th 6:30 pm
Two one-room exhibitions of painters who engage with words without including them in the image. Hard uses an illustrative style that frustrates meaning, taking on the colloquial and making referentless parables. Gibson deconstructs visual semiotics, combining collage with observational painting.
Potluck Birthday Bash […]
Frances Chung: A Chinese American Woman’s Plight. By: Susan Yungthe winter wind sits in the living room
so we huddle in the kitchenin our winter coats looking silly
and too cold to do anything
but light a candle eat melon seeds
as I wonder
what do we wear when we go outside?
— poem by Frances Chung, p. 25, 1970
from “Crazy Melon & Green Apples”
On November 8, 2009, I picked […]
MichaelMichael
I first saw Michael Jackson leading the Jackson 5, live at the Michigan State Fair in 1971. The fair was just outside of Detroit and must have been a gig agreed upon before the Jackson 5 blew up. I say that because State Fairs are notorious for having the all and sundry with not a […]
CRUCIFICTION by
Bonny Finberg
While the bombs fell between the 20th and 21st of April 1944, people prayed at the feet of the Crucifixion at Sacre Coeur. Montmartre was spared. I can’t help but feel it was their collective prayer that saved them rather than the stilled heart of a dead man, as […]
The Manhood TestHe remained on the couch for another hour or so, his half-erect penis cupped in his left hand. He heard the muezzin’s incantations, “Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar” (God is Great! God is Great!), calling the faithful to the first of their five daily worships to the Creator. He gently rubbed his penis and listened:
The Itty Bitty Backpack CureOne of the symptoms of being an Emotional Idiot is that I want all my ex-boyfriends to pine for me long after I have left them. Even if I was completely sick of them by the time we broke up, still, I expect them to never find a substitute for ME. I know this is grandiose but so what.
Steve Cannon for President!www.News3Online.com
Obama’s speech on raceNPR link
