The reality is, that America’s wealthy land and business owners kept the poor white working class busy, and subservient, by engaging them in enforcing Jim Crow laws, starting immediately after the abolition of chattel slavery.
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It was while writing a check to an indigenous people’s organization, that I was struck by the notion that it was our native brothers and sisters who, through kindness, an intimate relationship with the land, and a practical knowledge of the wild, provided for the original European settlers' survival.
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Best wishes and many thanks to the lovely and dedicated Jenna Juredine, for keeping our living room alive, and filled with Art, and to Brent Kirby for being the musical & magical man, who won her ever expanding heart!
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The US market for fentanyl is worth well over $1 billion a year, in "legitimate" neighborhood drug store sales. Fentanyl's wide spread popularity is nothing short of Big Pharma's brash and direct entry into the lucrative $27 Billion US Heroin Market.
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While many slept peacefully, a violent, homophobic, Islamic terrorist wannabe killed 50 people and wounded more than 50 others with a legally purchased AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle at a gay dance club late on a Saturday night.
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Djapo packed the house for a delightful evening of traditional drumming and dancing that featured a bright, passionate and incredibly polished intergenerational ensemble.
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As Thanksgiving is increasingly sold as “thanks getting,” and we are urged to get the ritualistic overeating of convenience foods out of the way so we can do more shopping, it is ever more important to support your locally owned businesses, bars and restaurants.
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John Barr, who passed away November 28 at the age of 87, changed the face of restaurants in Cleveland with antiques and paintings that recreated Dublin’s Red Light District.
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We had dinner at Phnom Penh on Monday night, and then drank Koffie Cafe coffee outside at the Market Avenue Wine Bar until they closed. John’s eyes sparkled as he filled me in on his recent sabbatical to Arizona.
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Cleveland’s music community has lost a great artist, teacher and friend with the passing of 75-year- old master conguero Bess Taylor. Bess was also a prolific teacher, whose grateful students are almost all working as professional musicians today.
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The transition from a brutal winter to a welcome spring is marred annually by the arduous process of data collection, tedious forms, ever changing rules, and the sinking feeling that we will, once again, owe more than we have saved for that much needed vacation.
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