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In 1964, Lucille Ball was starring in her second hit CBS sitcom, "The Lucy Show," while serving as chief executive of Desilu, one of the largest
'I Turned Shakespeare Into an R&B Opera' Steve Wallace On 3/9/21 at 5:00 AM EST I am a hip hop, soulful, beat-making composer and opera singer, and I began singing opera by accident. Being from the south side of Chicago, classical music wasn't the world that was around me. My dad would have the Lyric Opera on PBS from time to time—rarely—and, of course, it was often on cartoons like Bugs Bunny, but there was no reason for me to ever be authentically interested in opera. R&B, Soul, Jazz, Gospel and Hip Hop were around me in a visceral way. I mean, I know it, like I know ...
*NEW YORK, NY – It’s being called groundbreaking. It’s the new feature-length hip-hop/R&B musical Hal Kingand it’s scheduled to be released by Gravitas Ventures and it will premiere across platforms on Tuesday (02-09-21). Set in a late-1950s jazz-era Midwestern town, Hal King brilliantly modernizes and musicalizes William Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Henry V, and the iconic character of Young Hal. Hal King opens in a speakeasy, where the jazz is smooth and the good times flow. Young Hal revels at the center of it all, a cool cat with a posse of pals and a standing invite to the ch...
Black- ish“ tells the story of Rainbow (Bow) Johnson’s childhood of growing up in a biracial family in the ’80s. In the first season, Rainbow and her family are adjusting to their new life in the suburbs which isn’t quite comfortable with interracial marriage. In the second season, the Jonson’s are a bit more acclimated to their new environment but there are things that come up that make the Johnson’s still question their identity. Our correspondent L.Marie sat down with Tika Sumpter, who plays Bow’s mother Alica Johnson, to talk about what fans ...
He played for the San Antonio Spurs (1973–74) and Kentucky Colonels (1974–76) in the American Basketball Association for 236 games, winning the 1975 ABA championship with the Colonels. After the Colonels were disbanded as part of the ABA–NBA merger, Averitt joined the Buffalo Braves through the 1976 ABA dispersal draft, playing with that team for the 1976–77 season until joining the New Jersey Nets for the 1977–78 season, playing 130 games in the NBA with those two teams. Former WHOP Sportscaster Hal King put this feature together on Bird Everitt in March of 1969. King starts out th...