The Howard. Just mention the legendary theater in a room full of Washingtonians old enough to remember the place in its heyday and listen. Everyone has a story. For decades, the Howard Theatre was a mecca for black entertainers such as Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, James Brown, the Supremes, the Drifters. Then the lights went out. It's been years since the theater went...
I'm sure the title refers to a James Bond film; I'm swiping this from SamauraiFrog . List 10 musical artists (or bands) you like, in no specific order (do this before reading the questions below). Really, don’t read the questions below until you pick your ten artists!!! There is something to be said for following the instructions in this case. 1. The Beatles 2. The Beach Boys 3. David Bowie 4....
By: Cleo Brown On Friday Evening, November 20th, 2009 I attended a performance of Dreamgirls at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York with my publisher and the founder of HipHopRepublican.com, named Richard Ivory. Richard, who had said that there would be only a handful of people in the audience, made all of the arrangements for the event from securing the tickets to the play to arranging the transportation....
I have occasionally on these pages wondered whether there are, or at least should be, two sets of the provisions of the Bill of Rights: one that is applied against the federal government, another against the states. Here's how I expressed it in a post entitled Are There Two Sets of Constitutional Amendments? : Here's something I don't get. Can the same constitutional amendment mean one thing when applied...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit effectively overturns the assembly clause of the First Amendment as well as the Fourth Amendment freedom from arrest without probable cause. It would be nice to think the Supremes will overrule, but I suspect Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia will vote to uphold. I suspect Stevens, Breyer, [...]
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Not only can you censor student newspapers , but when you forget your purse at a restaurant as Sonia Sotomayor did at Brooklyn's Po last night you can have your security detail go and retrieve it for you. [ Plank/New Republic ] Read more posts by Dan Amira Filed Under: the supremes , po , sonia sotomayor , supreme court
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Read our last post. The picture will make more sense. It also happened to student journalists at George Washington University last month, where Kennedy also gave a speech, according to The Wall Street Journal . Kennedy says the request was made by a new assistant who didn't understand his policy. That said, when the GW student newspaper sent along their drafts to him, he made a few changes. [ WSJ...
On Jonah's point , I would just add that Obama has been playing this game from the first, and he gave the game away by overruling Holder when the blowback got bad over DOJ's effort to disclose classified photos of prisoner abuse. (See here and here .) On that, note that Holder plays the same game -- he (and Obama) claimed that they were simply complying with court orders. As I've explained a few times,...
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a group of Native Americans who find the Washington Redskins team name offensive. According to Reuters , "The appeal was supported by more than 30 law professors, 13 psychology professors who are experts on stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination[,] and by the Social Justice Advocacy Group, a coalition of non-profit and religious organizations...
The City of San Clemente agrees with me and is willing to go to the Supreme Court to enforce it: Handbills under windshield wipers count as litter, not free speech, San Clemente officials say, and they plan to go to the Supreme Court to prove it. A group opposed to illegal immigration recently sued the city over its ban on leafleting parked cars. At first, the Central District Court of California sided...
Divas of Motown at the Apollo Hammersmith last night brought together some of the (mostly) lesser known female stars of the great Motown sound in what proved to be a great celebration of the label's 50 years. Excellently supported by Jack Ashford's Funk Brothers Band, the show kicked off with 79 year old Mable John who was billed as the First Lady of Motown but who is better known for her Stax material,...
Nadine Allen wasn't sure anything could beat her winning Thursday's talent contest at the Hamilton County Bar Foundation function for attorneys. Friday's news did.
Bearotic reports today that BearForce1, the world's most popular "bear band" (and there are a few) has broken up . Oh well, even with more cast changes than the Supremes, they were good for a laugh. I even saw them in "concert" at NYC's Splash Bar and can still do the silly Bearforce1 dance. Here's their first and biggest hit from two years ago, which actually did OK in Europe and...
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The Boat That Rocked (retitled Pirate Radio for US release) is an ensemble comedy film, released in the UK on April 1st 2009 and currently scheduled for a US release on November 13th 2009. Set in 1966, it tells a story about a fictitious pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship to the United Kingdom. The film was written and directed by Richard Curtis and made by Working Title Films for Universal
Download The Dark Backward in DVD, DivX, PDA quality! Genres: Comedy Countries: USA Actors: Nelson, Judd Marty Malt Paxton, Bill Gus Newton, Wayne Jackie Chrome Boyle, Lara Flynn Rosarita Caan, James Doctor Scurvy Lowe, Rob Dirk Delta Moody, King Twinkee Doodle Christian, Claudia Kitty Dayton, Danny Syd Lynn, Carrie Nicolette Berger, Anna Mrs. Malt Cheshier, Lydell M. Dexter Hodges, Tom Marjorie Zipp...