R & R
One year ago today, I launched R & R and it has been one of many highlights throughout an eventful year.
The Monday after moving out of my apartment in Brooklyn at the end of September, I started a second part-time job. Happily – and thankfully – between my new digs and my new gigs, [...]
It is difficult to quantify and nearly impossible to overstate how meaningful it is to see alternately refreshing and frighteningly familiar, compellingly complex, and positively potent (otherwise relatively invisible) faces, places, and circumstances in art, media, and literature.
Enter organizations like The Classical Theatre of Harlem and the
I’m a little embarrassed to admit that, despite a few stints as a resident and affinity for the neighborhood, I recently visited The Studio Museum in Harlem for the first time this past (Target Free) Sunday. (Every Sunday is free, mind you.)
I was surprised to [...]
It is exquisitely ironic - and fitting - that I ended up attending a screening of Victoria Mahoney’s directorial debut Yelling to the Sky, co-sponsored by ImageNation Cinema Foundation and the Film Society of Lincoln Center at the Walter Reade Theatre, about two weeks after seeing the movie The [...]
Here’s the good news… and the bad news. Frank Hanavan is back! … for the last time.
Hip, quaint, serene. Those words rang in my head as I walked along Court Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn from Minibar, the site of Frank Hanavan’s Last Art Show!, to the Borough Hall subway stop on my [...]
I’m pretty sure I first peeped the trailer for The Help when I went to see Tyler Perry’s for colored girls and decided at Viola Davis that I was going to see it. (She is in my pantheon of diva godmothers, after all.)
Though it’s been on [...]
