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Walter’s World: Weekend Picks – Dance, Jazz and Art; May 10, 2013 (with video)

By Walter Rutledge

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There is enough variety this weekend, for you to share with that special lady in your life . This weekend there is dance in Brooklyn and Chelsea, Jazz in Harlem and art on Sugar Hill and the Westside. Here are a few of the many events taking place around the city and in our community.  Continue reading

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Walter’s World: Third Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival begins Monday

By Walter Rutledge 

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The Third Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival will take place throughout the Harlem community May 6 – 11. The festival will celebrate the legacy of jazz in Harlem featuring panel discussions, films and concerts by emerging and established artists. This year, the festival will pay tribute to The Alhambra Ballroom, the Apollo Theater, The Baby Grand, Minton’s Playhouse, Clark Monroe’s Uptown House, Showman’s Jazz Club, the Sugar Cane Club and the Cotton Club.  Continue reading

Ruby Dee, Ben Vereen, S. Epatha Merkerson And Others At The Museum of the Moving Image

Ruby Dee Ben Vereen S. Epatha Merkerson And Others At The Museum of the Moving Image

Tongues Untied Speaks

Museum of the Moving Image is pleased to announce two special programs in Changing the Picture, an ongoing series of screenings and discussions sponsored by Time Warner, Inc. Continue reading

Find Harlem’s S. Epatha Merkerson On TV One

S. Epatha Merkerson

African Americans make up about 12 percent of the U.S. population, but are almost one-third of all missing person cases reported each year. Continue reading

Stars Shine in Celebration Of Ruby Dee

They arrived to pay tribute to an icon of the Harlem community on Wednesday, November 14, Ruby Dee‘s 90th Birthday at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture! Continue reading

Harlem Celebs Hit ‘Sparkle’ Red Carpet Opening

135th Street Agency reports that is was a busy night in NYC last night! First, Tri Star Pictures hosted a red carpet screening of the upcoming ‘SPARKLE’ film at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in Soho. Continue reading

Harlem Resident S. Epatha Merkerson Hosts TV One Series Find Our Missing

As the centerpiece of an effort to draw attention to and help find missing Black Americans, whose stories are largely ignored in national media coverage of missing persons… Continue reading

Faison Firehouse Theatre in Harlem

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The Faison Firehouse Theater is home to the American Performing Arts Collaborative (APAC), Inc. a not-for-profit (501c3) organization co-founded by Tony Award Winner, George Faison  and Tad Schnugg in 1997.

For more than forty years, George Faison has been a driving force in the theater as well as film, video, television, concert dance, concert staging, television commercials and trade shows. George is internationally recognized as having achieved a preeminent place among the world’s most important directors, choreographers and writers and is known for his uncompromising pursuit of artistic excellence and the production and nourishment of socially relevant art and artist. Continue reading

Mojo Restaurant in Harlem (video)

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Here’s the Mojo Restaurant in Harlem commercial featuring Law & Order actress S. Epatha Merkerson.

Check out the extended version of their popular NBC/Amex commercial from WeHarlem.

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