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November 6, 2009
- National Bookstore Day, November 7, 2009, has to be one of the best ideas anybody has come up with to help celebrate and preserve literary culture in our digitally-revolutionized age in a very long time. It gives me a perfect excuse to scrape up a few bucks and splurge on books other than those needed for research. But now that I think about it a bit more, it also should have been a good excuse ...
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November 1, 2009
- What movies are you watching for the holidays? Most people are more likely to think along the lines of movie classics like It's a Wonderful Life (1947) or the more modern The Preacher's Wife (1996) and megastar Jim Carrey's forthcoming Walt Disney blockbuster, A Christmas Carol when it comes to considering films to enjoy with one's family during the holidays. However, a number of films do a ...
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October 26, 2009
- The ancient stories told through the work of Savannah, Georgia, artist Phil Starks unfolded in a very modern setting with the opening of his Gaia Earth Goddess and Her 7 Matriarchal Daughters exhibition, scheduled to run from October 23 to November 19, 2009, at the Savannah State University (SSU) Art Gallery. Starks has participated in a number of group shows over the past few years, including ...
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October 22, 2009
- For years I have been telling myself and my friends that my favorite city is Paris, France, but the fact is I have never been there. Yet I have this strange memory--as false as a five-dollar bill with a grinning jack-o-lantern where Abraham Lincoln's noble beard should be--that likes to surface every now and then and insist it is real. The memory is of a cool day early in May 1946. ...
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October 11, 2009
- The celebration of one literary laureate kicked off when the Swedish Academy in Stockholm awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature to German-Romanian Herta Mϋller October 8, 2009. The celebration of another literary laureate got underway October 7, when Amiri Baraka, one of African America's greatest statesmen of letters, turned 75, and plans were announced to honor the venerable author ...
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September 24, 2009
- On the same day that Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died, my Uncle Lendward Griffin, Sr., also left this world for greener spiritual pastures. Once the news of his death sunk all the way in, I thought to myself, Wow, he left this world in some really fantastic company. Uncle Len was not a public megastar like Fawcett and Jackson but in his own way he was as unique and worthy of ...
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September 17, 2009
- I have watched a number of friends, family members, and public officials over the past few years argue with themselves about how much they do or do not believe in love because they, in some terrified hour, had reached the conclusion that without forgiveness there can be no love and forgiveness is not always an easy thing to give. What, after all, does one do with the pain as yet lingering ...
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September 12, 2009
- Popular media references to the 1960s musical British Invasion headed by history-changing acts like the Beatles and Rolling Stones are far more common--at least on the U.S. side of the planet--than references to the corresponding African America's Rhythm and Blues invasion of the United Kingdom that took place during the same period. That was when classic giants of the genre--think Otis ...
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September 12, 2009
- "The lovers crawl in and out of your alley,They bathe in drips of blood; and not finding you, they give up and leave.I am forever stationed at your door like the earth,While others come and go like the wind."--Jelaluddin Rumi Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual Jelaluddin Rumi during the early ...
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September 6, 2009
- When considering that an artist for the past twenty years has been producing and selling more than 100 original paintings per year, it becomes difficult to think of the individual as one of the South's best kept brilliant secrets. Yet, despite the fact that he was selected one of the "top five collectible artists in the region" by Coastal Arts and Antiques Magazine and that ...
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September 5, 2009
- While investigations surrounding the death of Michael Jackson steadily progressed and media frenzy over different facets of his life continued, the great entertainer and philanthropist himself was laid to rest September 3, 2009, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Jackson's funeral came just over two months, and two unsettling autopsies, after his death on June 25, 2009. ...
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September 1, 2009
- Before the hours of insanity and annihilation that changed world history on September 11, 2001, the month of September was noted by members of my family primarily as the birth month for at least a half dozen individuals. It remained, of course, their month after 9/11, but the shadow of that event tends to lessen the glow of birthday candles and soften the volume of songs and laughter. ...
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August 27, 2009
- As what would have been the beloved iconic entertainer's 51st birthday approaches (August 29, 2009) the world community once again finds itself engaged in rediscovering, redefining, and re-devouring Michael Jackson. Some are feasting as they have been for years on continuous disclosures about aspects of his life (and now death) considered unconventional and mysterious largely because the man in ...
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August 24, 2009
- "And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace." --Michael Jackson from Heal the World Your lungs must have been two harps for the way they flowed music through your skin. By Aberjhani© August 2009To ...
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August 24, 2009
- "This world we live in is the dance of the Creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on." --Michael Jackson, The Dance The black star zooms gold.Wings of white flame torch his throat.His voice has arrived. A nest of brothersand sisters...mother...fathercradle your dream's tears. First comes time, ...
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