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March 6, 2012
100 & Single: Of Monkees, Michael, and "Maria"—The History Of The Chart-Dominating, Lifestyle-Accessory Album
Cassandra (Tia Carrere): You've heard it? Wayne (Mike Myers): Exqueeze me? Have I seen this one before? Frampton Comes Alive?! Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide. —Wayne's World 2 (1993) Fo ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
Who Dubbed Which Stars' Voices In Movie Musicals?
Ever watch a star belt out a song in a movie musical and think, "Wow! I didn't know they could sing!"? Well, they couldn't! So many times, a perfectly nice-looking performer with lovely sounds emanating from their mouth is faking it like a drag queen doing Britney -- or even like Britney herself.
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January 11, 2012
Sing Your Song: Harry Belafonte Hagiography
Ever watch a star belt out a song in a movie musical and think, "Wow! I didn't know they could sing!"? Well, they couldn't! So many times, a perfectly nice-looking performer with lovely sounds emanating from their mouth is faking it like a drag queen doing Britney -- or even like Britney herself.
Voice Choices
November 9, 2011
The Angel Levine
Ever watch a star belt out a song in a movie musical and think, "Wow! I didn't know they could sing!"? Well, they couldn't! So many times, a perfectly nice-looking performer with lovely sounds emanating from their mouth is faking it like a drag queen doing Britney -- or even like Britney herself.
Voice Choices
November 9, 2011
Etienne Charles
Ever watch a star belt out a song in a movie musical and think, "Wow! I didn't know they could sing!"? Well, they couldn't! So many times, a perfectly nice-looking performer with lovely sounds emanating from their mouth is faking it like a drag queen doing Britney -- or even like Britney herself.
Voice Choices
August 10, 2011
Odds Against Tomorrow
Ever watch a star belt out a song in a movie musical and think, "Wow! I didn't know they could sing!"? Well, they couldn't! So many times, a perfectly nice-looking performer with lovely sounds emanating from their mouth is faking it like a drag queen doing Britney -- or even like Britney herself.
Film
July 27, 2011
Dig If You Will These Pictures: '80s Musicals, from Dolly Parton to Prince
Ever watch a star belt out a song in a movie musical and think, "Wow! I didn't know they could sing!"? Well, they couldn't! So many times, a perfectly nice-looking performer with lovely sounds emanating from their mouth is faking it like a drag queen doing Britney -- or even like Britney herself.
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April 6, 2011
Live: Araabmuzik Harasses His MPC at Brooklyn Bowl
Araabmuzik Brooklyn Bowl Tuesday, April 5 Better than: Bowling. In the past few months, I've read a handful of articles and reviews suggesting that watching a DJ is boring. In one sense this is true, as watching the moves a DJ is making is almost always secondary to dancing to the records that D ... More >>
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December 11, 2010
The Great Foodrock Trivia Quiz: Part One
Last week, Edible Manhattan hosted the third of their trivia nights at Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg, offering prizes as diverse as pounds of coffee, boxes of chocolates, locavoric wines, and, not surprisingly, bottles of Brooklyn Beer. The subject was rock music related to food. Edible M ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
Live: Jay-Z Talks Decoded and Ol' Dirty Bastard at the New York Public Library With Cornel West and Paul Holdengräber
Cornel West, Jay-Z, Paul Holdengräber. Photo by Jori Klein.Jay-Z In Conversation With Cornel West and Paul Holdengräber New York Public Library Monday, November 15 Usually, says tonight's distinguished moderator, NYPL director Paul Holdengräber, "my goal at the library is to make the li ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 24, 2010
The Angel Levine
Cornel West, Jay-Z, Paul Holdengräber. Photo by Jori Klein.Jay-Z In Conversation With Cornel West and Paul Holdengräber New York Public Library Monday, November 15 Usually, says tonight's distinguished moderator, NYPL director Paul Holdengräber, "my goal at the library is to make the li ... More >>
Film
January 19, 2010
Civil Rights Anthems As Youth Ear Candy: Soundtrack for a Revolution
Cornel West, Jay-Z, Paul Holdengräber. Photo by Jori Klein.Jay-Z In Conversation With Cornel West and Paul Holdengräber New York Public Library Monday, November 15 Usually, says tonight's distinguished moderator, NYPL director Paul Holdengräber, "my goal at the library is to make the li ... More >>
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June 12, 2009
Dine and Dash: Memphis Hotel Says Al Sharpton Owes Them $87,300
If Al Sharpton owes you money, you better not count on collecting any time soon. Last year the Rev hosted a convention for his National News Network at the famous Peabody Hotel in Memphis -- and what a party it sounds like, with invited guests including Harry Belafonte, Mo'Nique and Danny Glover (th ... More >>
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February 25, 2009
Live: The Buoyant, Epic Odetta Memorial
Odetta Memorial Service Riverside Memorial Church Tuesday, February 24 "Odetta all by herself was a stimulus package," declared Reverend James Forbes, senior minister emeritus of the gorgeous, cavernous Riverside Memorial Church, at about the four-hour mark of the gala tribute to the titanic fol ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 11, 2009
70 and Swingin’
Blue Note Records reaches a milestone
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January 19, 2009
MLK Observed
Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>
Books
December 31, 2008
Reviving Lead Belly
A hefty collection of articles and photos plumps up the legacy of the blues great
Columns
November 26, 2008
Isn't Obama a Doll?
Yes and no. But there are lots of small consolations.
Blogs
October 31, 2008
Hugs and Kisses 66: Q&A With Herman Dune's David-Ivar
Yes and no. But there are lots of small consolations.
Music
May 6, 2008
Bill Cosby's Badfoot Brown
Woozy '70s kozmik grooves, brought to you by that guy who hates hip-hop
Music
November 1, 2005
Bobby and Dave
Parallel folkies grapple with the times in a mythic Greenwich Village wonderland
Music
February 8, 2005
Pirates of the Caribbean
Record execs hoist soca as the island flavor of the season
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July 6, 2004
Mushmouth Reconsidered
You can't say that on TV—but Bill Cosby can
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March 25, 2003
When Doves Cry
Oscar Declares War on the War
Dance
January 7, 2003
Embodying Multiculture
Artists and Scholars Trace Sex, Politics, and Religion Through Caribbean Dance
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November 5, 2002
Genocide: Sudan Found Guilty!
A Law Punishing Slavery Now
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October 15, 2002
Access of Evil
A Law Punishing Slavery Now
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January 15, 2002
Spelunking and Crooning in 2001
Reissues by the Boxful, Singers by the Cut
Music
September 18, 2001
Looking for Better Than That
Figuring Out Who’s in Tune as the Smoke Clears
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August 7, 2001
The Kid From Great Neck
Grown-Up Green Is Poised to Run ‘the City’
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September 19, 2000
BrooklynRATS
Una Clarke Claims There Was Something Subliminal in Her Loss to Owens
Theater
April 18, 2000
Blues for Mr. Baldwin
Una Clarke Claims There Was Something Subliminal in Her Loss to Owens
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August 17, 1999
Black Bouquet
African American choreography blooms in city parks and theaters
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March 9, 1999
It Takes a Woman
Amadou's mother's plea to Hillary
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September 1, 1998
Graham Cracker
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