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chickpea means love
I love Chickpea, or حمّص, a new Middle Eastern Restaurant on Chicago Avenue (just West of Damen). Fly ambiance, great lunch prices, fresh food, A Die Hard movie poster in Arabic, and a Genie pinball game. The owner, Jerry Suqi, told Time Out Chicago in November, “I came from Palestine when I was two and…
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We the People (Who are Darker than Blue)
Curtis Mayfield performing “We the People” and “Gimme Your Love”, plus archival tape of folks vibin’ in various Chicago parks back-in-the-day. From the classic film “Save the Children” (1972). The film chronicled PUSH Expo ’72 (at the International Amphitheatre** in Chicago), touted as the biggest gathering of black business in history. When black power was…
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Immodest Proposals Wanted
This came to me from the good people at Lumpen, an Arts magazine based in Bridgeport. They want to get folks involved in their Alternate Arts Festival (and the deadline in fast approaching). Sky’s the limit on the level of creativity you can express here….. VERSION>09 IMMODEST PROPOSALS April 23 – MAY 2, 2009 Chicago,…
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Sonari is Mixed
This is an interview I conducted for Vocalo.org some time ago, in which a Black man (NPR’s Sonari Rhodes Glinton) concedes he is “mixed”: Half African and Half African-American. At first listen, the categorization sounds almost comical, but consider his viewpoint: one major factor in Ethnicity is culture… and no one can argue that Africans…
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This Love’s For Real
This is a Local Chicago record also recorded by The Impressions (and written by Leroy Hutson). Very obscure. Very Lincoln-Continental-with-the-suicide-doors Gangster. Enjoy.
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Danger, She’s a Stranger!
The Five can’t-say-too-much-good-stuff-about-them Stairsteps recorded this petite cherie in 1967.
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Coffee and Cigarettes
I’ve never smoked, but that song made me believe in the common luxury of both. Remember when, if visiting someone’s house, the cupboards may have been bare…but they’d still offer you some coffee (even instant).
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I am Not Sidney Poitier
“Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunate, a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation.
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The Break/s: a mixtape for the stage
the break/s: a mixtape for the stage Marc Bamuthi Joseph March 26th thru March 28th at the Museum of Contemporary Art I am really looking forward to this. NOTE: If you haven’t read Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation by Jeff Chang…..do. from the MCA website: “Poet and performer Marc…
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