THE NEW “IT” MAN was how MGM publicists promoted professional boxerMax Baerin his film debut. Top right, Baer in a scene withMyrna Loy; bottom right, professional boxerPrimo Carnerawith Loy and Baer—Carnera was the world heavyweight boxing champion at the time of the film’s release, h...
who All About Jazz reports has “fully established himself in the forefront of jazz pianists.” A child prodigy who grew up playing in his father’s storefront Baptist Church, Reed has been one of the most important ambassadors of the music for over 30 years. Ah...
the past lives on within him, in everything that stands the Bartók's music also grew out of this stream of life, and as test of time, that is of lasting value. This notwithstanding, a result of the volcanic work of an extraordinarily creative in everyday musical education, the ...
Blacks formed Baptist and Methodist churches in the late 1860s. The initial church school gave way to a city school, then to a district system that in 1858 was incorporated with the New Braunfels Academy. Citizens voted unanimously to impose a tax for the support of a public school eighteen...
In today’s world of endless media options, it is hard to fathom the influence newspapers had over daily life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There was one news source that many New Yorkers simply could not live without:The New York World. ...
producing livestream shows on Facebook once a month, as it was previously planned to be, live in concert at the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena, California. With the closure of that venue in mid-March, all of these shows had to go online and we did so, including almost all of our...
ever-flowing stream. Nuff said. But what is a prophet, really? What is prophecy? What might it mean to be prophetic today? At one point or another, all of us have thought of the prophet as someone who predicts the future. Even the gospel writers point back to the Hebrew prophets to ...
The Whitney Houston Foundation has generously shared personal items of the artist reflecting her start as a soloist at age 11 in the choir of the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, the city of her birth. In the collection is her high school diploma. With such talent and natural teenage inc...
and bright stream glancing through the garden flowers, speak of inhabitants from the olden world. A frame building has been joined to the original log-house, and the dwelling thus made large enough to accommodate the household. Mrs. Gordon, the lady of the mansion, and the friend I have co...
There is one nominal presbytery in New England to-day doing duty only on the official records of the church, denominated " Boston," but it was utterly unrepresented in the General Assembly last week at Saratoga. It has a name to live, but it is dead. Something corresponding with what ...