Jammu, February 09 (Scoop News) The ongoing 7th Annual ‘SaMaPa Aalap Festival’ today presented a special concert at the Central Jail, Kotbhalwal, Jammu. SaMaPa along with its aim to revive the cultural scenario of the J&K State and its further promotion and propagation has an audience structure of more than 35000 people witnessing the festival […]
Book Review: Overcoming Speechlessness by Alice Walker
Alice Walker’s recent book Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel weaves a collection of horrific tales with the lifelong activist’s wisdom and words of hope. This thin 75 page book (or booklet) is published by Seven Stories Press in 2010. Walker (no relation to me) starts the reader […]
Radio: A Performance
I delivered the following speech on April 23 at the Inquiring Mind Bookstore and Café in Saugerties, New York: One of my largest intellectual influences is radio. Yes, you heard me right — I said "radio." Right now, I live deep in the Catskills Mountains, in the district where Boy Scouts go on hikes […]
Viomak to endorse Supreme Leader title with protest music album
By Harriet Chigege In July 2009 hopes that dictator Robert Mugabe would be retiring were thwarted after the party’s Midlands Province Coordinating Committee made a resolution that endorsed the 85 year old as ZANU PF’s Supreme Leader. Good enough as far as ZANU PF is concerned but Viomak has refused to be sidelined. To […]
For the Disabled Brain, the Best Medicine May be Low-tech and Musical
SAN RAFAEL, CALIF –– ‘What do you see, oh, Aiden, oh Aiden?’ sings a 37-year-old music therapist named Pierre Brennan, strumming his guitar. He and 6–year–old Aiden Stewart peer into ‘Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever.’ ‘Where’s the pig?’ ‘He’s right on the mud,’ Aiden says. For Aiden, who has autism, this appropriate answer is […]
Michael Jackson’s Most Underrated Songs
Why does it take someone’s death appreciate an artist’s genius? The Michael Jackson’s death has proven several things: 1.) We are not here forever 2.) While we are here, we should make an impact The King of Pop’s legacy ranges from music to videos to dance. With each, he left bits of pieces of himself […]