Academy celebrates Carmen Jones at 50
NEW YORK – The 1954 Academy Award-nominated musical “Carmen Jones” will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a screening here on March 1.
Red Scare didnt dampen their creativity Red Scare didnt dampen their creativity
Book Review Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950–2002 By Paul Buhle and David Wagner Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 Hardcover, 320 pp., $27.95
Maury Maverick Jr., civil rights attorney, dies
SAN ANTONIO – On January 28, Maury Maverick Jr., a veteran civil rights attorney, legislator, and progressive journalist, died Jan. 28, of kidney failure at the age of 82. During the McCarthy Era, Maverick, whose great grandfather’s free-ranging cattle made the Maverick name a metaphor and synonym for free thought, was one of few legislators fighting the intense red-baiting of that time.
We hate to see them go
I recently unearthed a copy of a folk song – from 1959 – by the very memorable Malvina Reynolds. I had lost track of it, but Pete Seeger very kindly found it and sent me a copy. It is most relevant now. Despite the technical advances in warfare that may make the reference to shovels obsolete, perhaps, the sentiment is alive and well and thriving!
Bush freezes families
CHICAGO – After more than six months, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) finally has some of the funding that freezing elderly and working-class people all across the country have been waiting for. On Jan. 24 President Bush released the $200 million of the remaining $300 million that was budgeted to the program. But for some the funding has come too late.
Critican mensaje Bush
George W. Bush estaba tratando de ganar apoyo para su agenda de recortes de impuestos para los ricos y guerra contra Irak en su discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión a una sesión de ambas cámaras del Congreso el 28 de enero. Pero alcaldes, gobernadores, miembros del Congreso y líderes de organizaciones de masas duramente criticaron y rechazaron su política.
Erdine Antonsen, 99, dies
Erdine Cathers Antonsen of New Paltz, died on Jan. 9. She was 99
Alfred Samter, 1922-2003
Alfred “Al” Samter, long-time activist in the Steelworkers Union, died January 12. He would have been 81 on Jan. 27.
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Reviews: New CDs highlight lush Latin grooves
Reviews: Rumba Flamenco Most North American music fans know of rumba flamenco through the Gypsy Kings. A fusion of Andalucian flamenco, AfroCuban and salsa rhythms, rumba flamenco is lighter and poppier, as opposed to traditional flamenco with its dramatic and heavy interpretation of the human experience.
