Jim Bessman
Mar 23, 20213 min read
Nellie McKay turns pop standard 'Lazybones' into antinuke video
Nellie McKay has paired her songs with whimsical videos before, as she did for her cover of The Beatles’ “If I Fell,” from her 2015 album...
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Jim Bessman
Oct 1, 20203 min read
Disastrous debate evokes the time when the non-partisan League of Women Voters ran the show
The League of Women Voters and the presidential debates After last night’s presidential debate disaster, and today’s announcement by the...
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Jim Bessman
Sep 22, 20208 min read
'Mr. SOUL!' documentary recounts timely story of historic PBS Black arts/culture series
As the poster says, before Oprah and Arsenio, there was Ellis Haizlip. Haizlip, who died in 1991 at 61, is the “Mr. SOUL!” of the new...
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Jim Bessman
Aug 21, 20202 min read
'Alaska's fiddling poet' Ken Waldman readies fifth and sixth volumes of his acclaimed &#
Ken Waldman performs his "Trump Sonnets" prior to his 2019 appearances at the PortFringe festival in Portland, Maine. The coronavirus...
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