by Kevin Amos Jones x Two, the musical event to benefit Child Literacy programs at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library in Carnegie was an extraordinary evening with a thrilling blend of Jazz, Pop and Reggae. SEAN JONES Opening up the festivities was Caroline Jones. A New York City based singer songwriter, Jones did songs from her recently released CD, “Fallen Flowers” and her very popular version of “Moon River.” Jones, performing in Pittsburgh for the first time, thoroughly impressed the attendees with her musicianship.
Thursday 25 So You Think They Can’t Dance The August Wilson Center for African American Culture presents the 3rd Annual So You Think They Can’t Dance at 7 p.m. at 980 Liberty Ave., Cultural District. This year’s participants will be Holly Frazier, Dwayne Fulton, Saleem Ghubril, Jennifer Gold, David Hillman, Davie Huddleston, Aradhna Malhotra Oliphant, K. Chase Patterson and the August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble. Voting ballots will be available. Tickets are $25. For more information, call 412-338-8742 or visit www.culturaldistrict.org.
This week I visited Wesley Center A.M.E. Zion Church in the Hill District, Tim’s Bar in the Hill District, Mitchell’s Bar in Oakland, Shadow Lounge in East Liberty and the Black Beauty Lounge in the Hill District. The ladies came out to celebrate Pitt’s Homecoming at the Shadow Lounge in East Liberty.
Soulful R&B singer Yolanda Barber says she will return to audition for “The Voice” next season, despite not being chosen as a contestant for the current Season 3. YOLANDA BARBER 0N ‘THE VOICE’ “I think at least one judge should have turned around for me, but it wasn’t in God’s plan for me right now,” said Barber a 55-year-old Highland Park resident who has more than 40 years of singing experience to her credit. She worked as a singer on Carnival Cruise ships for 10 years before being laid off in 2010.
Nothing in life is ever as it seems. The package of potato chips feels full, but you find twelve chips inside when you open it up. It appears that you’ve got plenty of money for vacation, then you actually get there. The party sure seemed fun, until the next morning. Your new co-worker was nice, before his first temper tantrum. Things—and sometimes people—can be something they’re not. They “pass” for various reasons and in the new book “Clearly Invisible” by Marcia Alesan Dawkins, you’ll find out why it happens and how multiracialism will change that.
Thanks to a grant from the Aims C. and Betty Lee Coney Memorial Fund of the Pittsburgh Foundation, emerging African-American poets in the Pittsburgh area finally have a chance to have their writing voices heard. “We’ve had a relationship with the Pittsburgh Foundation for two years and our organization has roots in Pittsburgh. There’s a demand in Pittsburgh for what we do,” said Cave Canem Foundation, Inc. Executive Director Alison Meyers.
(NNPA)—Dear Gwendolyn: Late one afternoon last summer, a man came to my house asking the whereabouts of a family by the name of Jones. I told him my maiden name was Jones. He then told me he was a lost relative. He said his family was in the van parked in my driveway. He explained he had just discovered he was to inherit some of my grandparents’ wealth.
by Mesfin Fekadu NEW YORK (AP)—A day after earning his high school diploma, an excited Drake performed hit songs for a few hundred people at an event for Tyra Banks. The 25-year-old told the crowd Thursday night that he took a small break from music and "spent some time going back to high school." DRAKE "I got my high school diploma," he said with excitement as the crowd roared.
by Jonathan Landrum Jr. It's tough to improve a video game that has been so excellent for the past several years, but 2K Sports has found ways to make "NBA 2K13" (for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, $59.99) even better—with some help from the league's most famous owner. NBA 2K13--This video game image released by 2K Sports shows an animated image portraying Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin in a scene from "NBA 2K13." (AP Photo/2K Sports) Along with fluid gameplay, enhanced graphics and a smoother control scheme, this year's edition of the best-selling basketball franchise welcomes rapper—and minority owner of the Brooklyn Nets—Jay-Z as executive producer.
Roy·al·ty: Royal status, dignity, or power; sovereignty: to be elevated to royalty. Jazz is described as a style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom. ROY HAYNES Let’s break it down for you further as we talk about Roy Haynes. Thelonious Monk once described Roy Haynes’ drumming as “an eight ball right in the side pocket.” Jack DeJohnette calls Haynes’ provocative percussion “a rare combination of street education, high sophistication and soul.”
