I was lucky to experience Alicia Keyes’ Hell’s Kitchen this week on Broadway while visiting my friend Jane in Brooklyn. Semi-autobiographical, it tells the story of a young girl, Ally, who as a teenager has to deal with a lot of heartache and struggle. “Do something with that anger,” her piano teacher tells her. “Sit. […]
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COMING SOON !!!! BOOK RELEASE DATE- MAY 1ST ( PRINT VERSION TOO!) MORE PURCHASING OPTIONS AVAILABLE SOON From Chapter 32- Coming up Cubist Cubism, according to Merriam Webster, is a style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements especially by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously
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I was excited to see “Audrey’s Children” this past weekend. I’m not going to lie. Part of it was filmed on my block, so I was curious! A few years ago, my street was lined with classic 60’s cars. It was pretty cool! I didn’t know much about the story of Dr, Audrey Evans (
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It was a chilly April night when I ventured out to the Free Library for a warm, intimate experience with Maria Shriver & Friends We were greeted to some live soothing guitar music and a stage full of candles to set a meditative mood. Bob Roth, Maria’s teacher and friend, invited us to participate in a
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From Chapter 52 “Caution! Bus is turning. Caution! Bus is turning.” I hear this over and over as I receive a much-needed massage from my dear friend, Jen. I am trying everything I can to deal with my stress. Her office sits a block from the busy thoroughfare of Germantown Avenue and the nearby #23
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I’ve wanted to see world music vocalist and five-time Grammy winner, Angélique Kidjo, ever since I heard her album Eve in 2014 and started using her music in my Global Rhythms Dance programs. I danced joyously with hundreds of families to rousing “M’Baamba” (Kenyan Song). We rested with her lullaby “Blewu.” Saturday night I got
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So, I started this book in June of 2019 and it is finally going to come out into the world. I’m excited!! Here’s my first installment post of a “sneak peek” into the book. First, about the title. This quote appears on one of my opening pages. “Losing someone you love is the first
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The piece begins with a single dancer running frantically and fearfully on the stage. She is running from something. We don’t know what. “Darkness—Dancing to Pieces,” performed by the Philly-based Koresh Dance Company this past weekend (March 14-16) at FringeArts, is “dedicated to all the victims of the Nova
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When I’m free on Tuesday mornings, you’ll find me at the Plastic Club, drawing from a clothed model. Since 1897, the Plastic Club has been a place for artists to express themselves with various media. They provide easels, tables, and drawing boards—you bring the rest! Volunteer monitors run the three-hour sessions and for a
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One of my favorite things to do in this season is to watch the Oscar nominated short films- documentary, live action and animated. Last week I saw the documentaries, each one a powerhouse in its own way. I don’t think I breathed at all through Incident, the riveting film about a Chicago police shooting told
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