Reports Haaretz, Australian Jewish artist Jane Korman filmed her three children and her father, 89-year-old Holocaust survivor Adolk, in the video clip “I Will Survive: Dancing Auschwitz.” Originally released in December 2009, the video has been the source of some controversy. Dancing at Auschwitz and other memorialized sites of the Holocaust? How profane. But it […]
Writers Write
“One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.” Salman Rushdie Photo by Mariusz Kubik
Eating Poetry (XVIII) – Wait
Wait by C. K. Williams Chop, hack, slash; chop, hack, slash; cleaver, boning knife, ax— not even the clumsiest clod of a butcher could do this so crudely, time, as do you, dismember me, render me, leave me slop in a pail, one part of my body a hundred years old, one not even there […]
Jazz Is 5: Duke Ellington and “C Jam Blues”
Hey, you cats, dig the scene and the players. And check out who gets them baby vamps. ———- Related articles by Zemanta 3 reviews of Duke Ellington (rateitall.com) Book Review – Duke Ellington’s America – By Harvey G. Cohen (nytimes.com) Duke Ellington Jukebox (slideshare.net) D. C. Jazz Fest Honors Tradition, Culture and History (ybpguide.com) Wynton […]
Happy 4th of July, 2010
Jimmy Cagney, in his Oscar winning performance, as an older George M. Cohan leaving his meeting with FDR at the White House, in Yankee Doodle Dandy.