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Some on the Historic Preservation Commission don't think it's necessary to add “Lift Every Voice' above the music concourse in Golden Gate Park.
Schoonerfest, set to debut this summer, has landed a visit by the When and If. And the 1939, 63-foot vessel, which then-Col. George S. Patton had F.F. Pendleton of Wiscasset build, will give tours, Peter Wells told fellow Friends of...
Eleven months after the dramatic removal of a Confederate statue in downtown Jacksonville, Mayor Lenny Curry must decide what to do with others.
As part of the celebrations commemorating the 150th anniversary of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in 2020, a local artist group had proposed installing a lighted tribute to the late gay supervisor Harvey Milk along the top center of the Music Concourse Bandshell. It was to be in addition to the planned renovations of the performing space's lighting and sound equipment. Also known as the Spreckles Temple of Music, the bandshell structure is at the western edge of the Music Concourse, which sits above the underground parking garage that serves visitors to the California Academy of Sciences, t...
Namibia’s Rap Attack alleviates local hip-hop 2021-03-12 The genre Amapiano continues to dominate the airwaves with most artists tapping into it to make a stand. And hip-hop music, also known as rap, is holding its head high with a show dedicated to it called Rap Attack on NBC TV. Franklin Newman Shitaleni (31), the show’s host, said it is Namibia’s biggest hip-hop platform. He told Entertainment Now! that the show is designed to matriculate the value of Namibian hip-hop music and the culture, serving it in its full capacity to a global platform. “Rap Attack goes to the arti...