UPDATE (5:40 p.m.): Twelfth Street NW has reopened and traffic is returning to normal. Police officials said the suspicious package was a flowerpot placed on a sidewalk. Twelfth Street NW between Pennsylvania and Constitution avenues is closed this afternoon, while authorities investigate a report of a suspicious package, The Post's Clarence Williams reports from the scene. The closure is causing backups...
The Imperial Roman Jazz, 1923King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Chimes Blues.King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Snake Rag.Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Joys.Jelly Roll Morton, Wolverine Blues.Clarence Williams' Blue Five, Kansas City Man Blues.Mamie Smith and the Harlem Trio, Lady Luck Blues.James P. Johnson, Scouting Around.Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, The Dicty Blues.Bessie Smith, Jail House
This evening we went to the Berrylands Hotel in Surbiton to see and hear Brian White's Magna Jazz Band . Special guests (pictured) were Ken Reece (cornet) and Graham Barton (keyboard). Our favourite numbers were: 1. Brian's vocal Everybody Loves My Baby , composed by Spencer Williams in 1924 with lyrics by Jack Palmer. This link is to a version by Clarence Williams' Hot Five. We gave Brian the traditional...
A source tells FBDC that just moments after WaPo 's Marissa Newhall said "Why do I hear running water," drops of water began hitting Clarence Williams 's desk, computer and about 50 big cardboard boxes of various reporters' files. Then suddenly it was just straight-up raining in the WaPo newsroom. Our source says that that there was a huge, concerted effort to get everything moved out of...
stultify \STUHL-tuh-fahy\, verb: To render useless or ineffectual; cripple. To cause to appear stupid, inconsistent, or ridiculous. Law To allege or prove insane and so not legally responsible. Stultify is from Late Latin stultificre, "to make foolish." bag pipe Screwing a chick in her arm pit. Similar to a titty fuck. Damn I wish she had done a better job of shaving before I bag piped her....
Actor-filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles is 77. Singer Kenny Rogers is 71. Actor Clarence Williams III (The Mod Squad) is 70. Newsman Harry Smith is 58. Actress Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City) is 53. Actress Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) is 39. Singer Kelis is 30. Actor Cody Kasch (Desperate Housewives) is 22. Actress Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) is 20. Actor RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad) is 17.
Garsh ! Summer break, folks, summer break !!! Yep people, here's the legendary STGW summer break/mix ! (Officially, this is the 4974th break of this very blog) Rev. Frost's on holidays, again ! Beach ! Sharks ! Sun burns ! Surf ! Enjoy your summer (and this mix), I'll see y'all in September for more adventures !!! Yeeeeeeha ! Rev. Frost Presents…A Bloody Summer Mix, ’09 ! (56 :20) (via...
I never knew my maternal grandfather, Clarence Williams. He died when I was two or three years old. But my mother didn't really know her father as well as she ought to have, either. Apparently, my grandmother's mother Lillian had a whole lot more control on her kids, even as adults, than she should have, and somehow essentially caused the breakup of Clarence with my grandmother Gertrude, though my...
A Day in the Life is not only the first hip-hop musical but is also the first hip-hop musical in which most of the dialogue is delivered in rhyme. In fact, even this trailer's voice-over narration is rapped. The Lionsgate film, which is written and directed by actor-rapper Sticky Fingaz (who accidentally shot a fellow rapper recently), came out on DVD yesterday and stars Mekhi Phifer, Fredro Starr,...
Eva Taylor, as a child, performed with the Gassman Pickaninnies and was a popular singer in the 1920s and ’30s. She teamed up, musically and maritally, with Clarence Williams in 1921, cutting her first record for the Black Swan label in 1922. Actor Clarence Williams III (”Link” on the TV show Mod Squad [...]
We continue our series on African-American horror films that we recommend for Halloween. Director Rusty Cundieff and producer Spike Lee combined for a multi-story urban horror classic with 1995’s “Tales from the Hood.” The film tells the story of a strange funeral director (Clarence Williams III) who tells four strange tales of horror with an African [...]
WOW @ this shit. Directed by Sticky Fingaz and featuring Mekhi Pfifer, Omar Epps, Bokeem Woodbine, Michael Rapaport, Faizon Love, Malinda Williams, Treach, Tyrin Turner, Drena De Niro (Robert De Niro’s daughter), Clarence Williams III, Ray J, Sticky Fingaz, Fredro Starr. While it might be considered a “movie musical or a hip-hop opera,” Sticky Fingaz [...]
My maternal grandfather, Clarence Williams, played in the Negro Leagues in 1930s. I’ve never been able to track down any statistics or even exactly what team he played for, though my grandmother thought he played for some team called the Giants. There were several "Giants" teams in the day. The person I knew as my paternal grandfather, McKinley Green, I’ve mentioned before in...
The Post's Clarence Williams alerts us to the new ad campaign from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments 's Street Smart program, which aims to scare the bejeezus out of drivers and pedestrians in the hopes that we'll all be a lot more careful out on the road. A new study shows that on average more than 80 people die and 2,000 people are injured a year in pedestrian accidents in the Washington...
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