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Your Letters: Feb. 24, 2021 Reader Submissions Freedom of speech in Barstow Mayor Paul Courtney, Mayor Pro Tem Barbara Rose and Councilwoman Marilyn Dyer-Kruse: How could you have asked us to vote for you and then refuse to hear our voices? Prior to the Jan. 19, 2021, Barstow City Council meeting, public comments were read out loud by the city clerk. On Jan. 19, that all changed. For the first time in my 40 years of attending meetings that did not happen. No comments of any kind, whether genera...

John Mayall and the Eric Clapton Connection John Mayall recruited the then unknown Eric Clapton to join his influential group John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers in 1965. Over the years, the band featured the likes of the late Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie of Fleetwood Mac and former Rolling Stones strummer Mick Taylor and inspired a whole generation of blues and rock legends. Mayall, dubbed ‘The Godfather of British Blues’, insists the most important thing to him is being an authe...

Discussed in this essay: Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, by Alexander Nemerov. Penguin Press. 288 pages. $28. Imagine, if you will, that it’s the year 1990, and you are flipping through the magazine Art & Antiques. (Why you are doing this, I don’t know—maybe you’re an art collector? Just imagine it.) You come across a photograph of a middle-aged white woman in a lemon-yellow sweater and low wedges. She’s perched inside some kind of gigantic wheeled frame, dark e...

British blues legend John Mayall hasnt ever compared his success to that of his former Bluesbreakers bandmate Eric Clapton and instead has always been focused on his own musical journey.

Editorial: Aaron great on field, even better in hard game of life Express-News Editorial Board FacebookTwitterEmail Atlanta Braves great Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruths record for career home runs in 1974. For many fans, the anticipation was delicious. But Aaron also received hate mail and death threats. Aaron was one of the greatest baseball players — and an even better human being./Associated Press When he wielded a bat, the first things you noticed were the wrists, flicking with the speed and...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Kamala Harris became not only the first Black woman to be vice president but also the first Indian American. "If you dream about something here and if you work for it, you can achieve your dream, and thats what happened with Kamala Harris., and its such a proud moment, sad Usha Kamaria, Indian immigrant. Usha is a longtime leader in Chicagos Indian community. Like Vice President Harris mother, Kamaria and her husband came to America from India to provide a better life and more ...

Father Solanus Casey, a first-generation Irish American Capuchin priest, was beatified in Detroit in November, creating the possibility that he may become the first American-born male to become a saint. Casey is only the third person born in the U.S. to receive the title of “blessed,” the level below sainthood. Casey’s beatification comes after a Panamanian woman was cured of a genetic skin disease following prayers she said over his tomb in Detroit earlier this year. “The beatificatio...

This month John Mayall:The First Generation - a stupendous 35 CD record set - will be released worldwide by Madfish Records.

(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon plans to invest XAF375.49 billion for the implementation of “major projects” (known as first-generation projects) announced in the Strategic Document for Growth and Employment (DSCE) 2010-2020, according to the 2021 state budget. According to the DSCE 2010-2020, the projects would have been completed by 2020, but this is not the case. The current execution rate is 47% and looking at the state of some of the projects, one can rightfully say that the completi...

First Generation is an ode to his fellow immigrant kids. Photo: Supplied Dominos pizza franchise owner Rishi Sharma was on his way to work one day when he saw a man using a pizza box to ask for spare change. Instead of giving him a few coins, he ended up giving Brian Sooty Wallace a job. Rishi Sharma (R) and Brian "Sooty" Wallace Photo: supplied