Legendary South African singer Miriam Makeba, taken by Paul Weinberg Zenzile Miriam Makeba (b. March 4, 1932 – d.11/9/08,) nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa….
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Movies, Movies, Movies! #122 – March 15, 2022
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! It’s a mixed bag this week. Vault (2019) Starring: Theo Rossi, Clive Standen, Samira Wiley, Chazz Palminteri, Don Johnson Director: Tom DeNucci Genres: action, crime Synopsis: from imdb: Vault tells a story about a group of small time criminals in 1975 who attempt to pull off the…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 15 – Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples, 2006, photo by Tom Pich Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil rights activist. Staples was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 10, 1939. She began her career with her family group in 1950. Initially singing locally at churches and appearing on…
dVerse — Prosery — The magic of rain
I wandered lonely as a cloud. –by William Wordsworth, from his eponymous poem Seeing a cumulus puff amongst cirrocumulus sheets made the mountain dragon laugh. “You’re an anachronism!” Try as I might to slough off the words, his throaty grumbles clung like heavy ice crystals. They turned my cushiony cotton into spiked crackles which shredded…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 14 – Patti Smith
Patti Smith performing at Provinssirock festival, Seinäjoki, Finland, June 2007. photograph by Beni Köhler Patricia Lee Smith (b. 12/30/46) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the “punk poet laureate”, Smith fused rock and…
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The image is a picture taken on 2/26/22 of a sculpture, “Circus Acrobats” by George Segal at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.
Have you heard of Spinosaurus? Me neither before yesterday
image by Davide Bonadonna “Bigger than a T-Rex, water loving Spinosaurus throws dinosaur orthodoxy for a loop” Michigan Radio | By Stateside Staff Published September 30, 2020 at 5:36 PM EDT I listened to this “podcast” on NPR yesterday on my drive back from Grand Rapids. Just when we thought we knew everything (tongue firmly in…
