Category: Arts

  • The Rock Obama Cold Open – SNL Saturday Night Live National Broadcasting Company (NBC) 2015-03-28 After the actions of Rep. John Boehner (Taran Killam), Sen. Ted Cruz (Bobby Moynihan) and Sen. Tom Cotton (Kyle Mooney) make him lose his cool, President Obama (Jay Pharoah) turns into The Rock Obama (Dwayne Johnson).

  • Lives of Afro-German men and women are focus of Canisius College exhibit The Buffalo News Buffalo, New York 2015-03-12 An exhibit that provides a look at the lives of Afro-German men and women living in Germany during the past three centuries will open March 24 in Alumni Hall, between the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library and…

  • Amherst Together asking for poems about identity, presenting 1-woman performance on notion of race MassLive 2015-03-24 Diane Lederman, Reporter The Springfield Republican Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni is bringing her one-woman show “One Drop of Love” to Amherst Middle School April 15 as part of the Amherst Together initiative. (Submitted) AMHERST, [Massachusetts] – Since July, Carol Ross has…

  • Meet Elizabeth Liang from Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey Culture Shock Toolbox 2015-03-23 H. E. Rybol Elizabeth acts on stage, film, and television. A graduate of Wesleyan (after transferring from Wellesley), she is a published essayist (“Checked Baggage: Writing Unpacked,” “Transforming Three Sisters”) and has a column about creative adult TCKs at TheDisplacedNation.com. She is also…

  • If you haven’t heard of Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes, the 24-year-old is making jaws drop in the music industry. Armed with ferocious vocals, passionate lyrics and a dynamic presence — on and off stage — Howard as the front woman of the Alabama Shakes is bringing rock and blues back from the grave…

  • Fifteen Projects Selected for Tribeca Film Institute All Access Grants Filmaker 2015-03-19 Scott Macaulay, Editor-in-chief Fifteen works — scripted, documentary and interactive — were selected today for the Tribeca Film Institute‘s All Access program, which offers grant monies and other non-monetary support to projects by creators from statistically underrepresented communities. The projects were chosen from…

  • Miss Universe Japan — spectacle, race, and dreams Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, militarization, and blackness 2015-03-19 Mitzi Uehara Carter The newly crowned Miss Universe Japan is Blackanese. No, she’s Japanese. No, she’s Haafu. Multiracial? Mixed? Japanese enough to represent Japan in a silly beauty contest? Ariana Miyamoto is from Nagasaki, Japan…

  • Chicago’s Jazz Age still lives in Archibald Motley’s art The Chicago Tribune 2015-03-20 Howard Reich Where does Chicago’s Jazz Age still live? In the paintings of Archibald Motley, on view in a new exhibition Trumpets blared, saxophones thundered, singers belted and dancers swayed from nighttime to past sunup. Walk along “the Stroll” — a very…

  • Alabama Shakes’s Soul-Stirring, Shape-Shifting New Sound The New York Times Magazine 2015-03-18 Joe Rhodes With its highly anticipated second album, this band of small-town misfits finally has a ticket out — not that they would ever leave. In the upstairs dressing room at the Georgia Theater in Athens, Ga., in January, Alabama Shakes was getting…

  • The First Multiracial Miss Universe Japan Has Been Crowned NBC News 2015-03-17 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang The stunning Miss Nagasaki, Ariana Miyamoto, is the first multiracial contestant ever to be crowned Miss Universe Japan and will represent Japan in the 2015 Miss Universe pageant. Born in Japan to a Japanese mother and African American father, Miyamoto…