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Review: 'Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery to Hip-Hop'
Are hip-hop artists such as Flavor Flav and Lil Wayne the new generation of black minstrels -- the African American jesters who used to entertain audiences with cartoonish, racially stereotypical shtick before the collapse of the Jim Crow South?...
Tags: Social Issues, Racism, The Washington Post, Slavery, Nas
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College Hill history part of Wichita's struggle for national status
KWCH Eyewitness News"We tend to think of 19th century Kansas through the lens of a pioneer, the lens of a cowboy, the lens of the outlaw," says Wichita State University Public History Program Director Jay Price. "You've gotta to forget all of that. You have to look as it...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Immigration, Services and Shopping, Education, Agriculture
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Comedy writer Sidney Reznick dies at 93
VarietySidney Reznick, a comedy writer who began in radio in the early 1940s with "The Jimmy Durante Show," worked in the golden era of television and remained in the business long enough to pen three episodes of "The Love Boat," died in Los Angeles on July 24....Tags: Ethel Merman, Victor Borge, Bob Hope, Entertainment, Jimmy Durante
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Even now, Barry Manilow writes the songs that make his fans sing
Remember the '70s? They're back, at least fleetingly, with one of the reigning hit-makers of the era revisiting past triumphs – and offering some newer fare, as well – at the Chicago Theatre. At 69, Barry Manilow still draws squeals of...
Tags: Allergies, Entertainment, Barry Manilow, Arts and Culture, Vicodin (drug)
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Theater review: ‘Hello! My Baby’ at the Rubicon Theatre
Culture MonsterPhilip Brandes reviews Cheri Steinkellner's new Tin Pan Alley-themed jukebox musical, "Hello! My Baby" at the Rubicon Theatre.... -
Humble theaters become movie palaces
In October 1917, a theater opened at 3535 W. Roosevelt Road that changed the moviegoing experience, in Chicago and the nation.
In the era of the nickelodeon, a term reflecting not just the price of admission, but the surroundings, motion pictures were...Tags: Palace Theater, Central Park, Red Skelton, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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From Baltimore to Broadway to Hollywood
Over the years, many noted actors, such as Mildred Natwick, Edward Everett Horton, Mildred Dunnock, Charley Chase, Francis X. Bushman, Anita Gillette and Josh Charles, have hailed from Baltimore, and their paths to stardom often began by treading the...Tags: Baltimore Museum of Art, Charley Chase, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Clary, Dancing
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PASSINGS: Sybil Jason
Sybil Jason, 83, a former child actress signed by the Warner Brothers Studio to rival Twentieth Century Fox star Shirley Temple, died Aug. 23 at her home in Northridge, her family announced. She had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Born in Cape...Tags: Health, Shirley Temple, London Theatre, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., COPD
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Ann P. 'Nip' Melocik, physical ed teacher, dies
Ann P. "Nip" Melocik, a retired parochial school physical education instructor, died Wednesday of heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
The Loch Raven Village resident was 80.
The daughter of a restaurateur and a homemaker, the former Ann...Tags: Health, The Sound of Music (movie), Parochial Schools, Physical Conditions, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Ann P. "Nip" Melocik, physical ed teacher, dies
Baltimore Sun reporterAnn P. "Nip" Melocik, a retired parochial school physical education instructor, died Wednesday of heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Loch Raven Village resident was 80. The daughter of a restaurateur and a homemaker, the former Ann...Tags: Health, The Sound of Music (movie), Parochial Schools, Physical Conditions, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Critic's Notebook: Jerry Lewis walks alone
Show TrackerSo. Jerry Lewis is out as host of the Muscular Dystrophy Labor Day Telethon, which he had captained since 1966 (though he had hosted local telethons for the charity as far back as the early 1950s). Having announced that the......
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