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    Sep 19, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Book review: 'The Warmth of Other Suns' by Isabel Wilkerson

    The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson Random House: 622 pp, $30 It was an all-too-familiar dispatch from a particular time and place. The Clarks, a young black family of four, were trying to improve...

    Tags: Toni Morrison, The New York Times, Minority Groups, Politics, Florida

    2. Dec 1, 2009 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  2. Is there room for Zora in Eatonville's transformation?

    Two decades ago, Eatonville used its link to Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston to get noticed by the world.
    Orlando Sentinel
    Two decades ago, Eatonville used its link to Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston to get noticed by the world. Now, as the community attempts to transform itself into a major African-American cultural destination, leaders are struggling to define...

    Tags: Interstate 4, Eatonville, Festive Events, Children, Marketing

    3. Nov 15, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 'Changing My Mind' by Zadie Smith

    Changing My Mind
    Changing My Mind Occasional Essays Zadie Smith The Penguin Press: 306 pp., $26.95 Reviewing Zadie Smith's 2001 debut, "White Teeth," the critic James Wood lumped the blazing hot young British writer with no less than Salman Rushdie, David Foster...

    Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Charles Dickens, Anxiety, Roland Barthes, Greta Garbo

    4. Oct 4, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. 'A New Literary History of America' by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors

    Daunting as it may be to assemble a centuries-spanning assessment of any country, even one with a fairly linear march through history, how does one approach a culture as unstable, contradictory and contested as ours? Where do you start? Where do you stop? And how, exactly, do you know when you're done?
    Daunting as it may be to assemble a centuries-spanning assessment of any country, even one with a fairly linear march through history, how does one approach a culture as unstable, contradictory and contested as ours? Where do you start? Where do you stop?...

    Tags: Barack Obama, Toni Morrison, Harvard University, Randy Newman, Elvis Presley

    5. Aug 28, 2009 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  5. Visuals arts offerings for 2009-2010

    <h2 style="listing_category">Current shows/events</h2><em class="b">1ST THURSDAYS: ECLECTIC KNIGHTS</em>: art gathering featuring works by UCF alumni and faculty: 6-9 p.m. Sept. 3; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., Orlando; $10.
    Sentinel staff
    Current shows/events 1ST THURSDAYS: ECLECTIC KNIGHTS: art gathering featuring works by UCF alumni and faculty: 6-9 p.m. Sept. 3; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., Orlando; $10. DR. SKETCHY: casual artist meetup with live model sketching: 8 p.m....

    Tags: Photography, Painting, Mennello Museum of American Art, Children, Halloween

    6. Jan 18, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Literary Haiti

    Jacket Copy
    Since last week's devastating earthquake in Haiti, the world's attention has turned to the country as it rarely has before. Yet it's been the focus of literary explorations for decades. In the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Jamaica and......
    7. Feb 26, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  7. The Smithsonian Channel honors Black History Month

    Exploring race
    "The Smithsonian Channel is honoring the legacy of African Americans throughout February with programming dedicated to Black History Month. Smithsonian Channel will shed light on some of the people who have helped shape our nation. "The documentary, "Soul...
    8. Mar 3, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  8. Dance review: Alvin Ailey at the Orange County Performing Arts Center

    Culture Monster
    “Celebration” happened to be the unofficial theme for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s opening night program Tuesday at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, the first of four different slates of mixed repertory being presented through...
    9. Feb 19, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Hart-felt statements about violence against women

    Opinion L.A.
    Comedian Kevin Hart was probably upset about not being invited to the UCSD-area Compton Cookout, where white college kids apparently had a ball acting out their ghetto fantasies. So Hart, who has had roles in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and other stuff,...
    10. Jun 10, 2008 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  10. Florida Beach Guide: Anastasia State Recreation Area, St. Augustine

    Thousands of years have washed over this slender sandbar of a barrier island called Anastasia. But only recently has man written his history on this coastline.
    Sentinel Staff Writer
    Thousands of years have washed over this slender sandbar of a barrier island called Anastasia. But only recently has man written his history on this coastline. As you stand along the park's barren, wind-swept beach, squinting inland over light-washed...

    Tags: Foods and Beverages, State Parks, Florida Gators, Lifestyle and Leisure, Spain

    11. Oct 31, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Obama's gospel mistake

    Politics have provided gay Americans like myself with no end of schadenfreude in recent years, what with the antics of Mark Foley, Larry Craig and other I'm-not-gay Republicans. But last weekend, a competing Democratic farce debuted: Barack Obama's...

    Tags: Christianity, Barack Obama, Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Sex

    12. Feb 15, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Elaine Showalter

    A Jury of Her Peers
    A Jury of Her Peers American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx Elaine Showalter Alfred A. Knopf: 608 pp., $30 The title of this, the "first literary history of American women writers ever written," explains Elaine Showalter, comes...

    Tags: The New York Times, Toni Morrison, Poetry, Erica Jong, Book

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