Heavy Hitterz Street Art & Graffiti Show
So these Speaker Fruits cats throw a pretty damned good party. This past Friday at Age Song gallery in San Francisco, SF along with Daniel Fleres, fabric8, and Phoneticontrol brought in around 80 artists from around the world for Heavy Hitterz, one of the best graffiti/street/comic art shows [...]
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Photos: Heavy Hitterz Street Art & Graffiti Show
Posted in Art, Graffiti, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco, Street Art, tagged , Art, Daniel Fleres, David Choong Lee, fabric8, Graffiti, Heavy Hitterz, Mildred, Phoneticontrol, Romanowski, San Francisco, Speaker Fruits, Street Art on November 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Blue Door to History
Posted in Reviews, Theater, tagged "The Blue Door" on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Blue Door to History
-Kwan Booth
Lineage can be a tricky thing. The need to understand where you come from sometimes contradicts the desire to fit in and be a part of the larger world. This can be especially true for black people, with our complicated relationship with this country. Some choose to [...]
Hurston’s “Spunk” Still Sings
Posted in Reviews, Theater on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Spunk Still Sings: Hurston’s blues tales shape performance
By Kwan Booth
Fiction writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston was one of the most celebrated and controversial black cultural figures of the 20th century. Her feminist stance and dedication to traditional black dialect and mythology won her praise and condemnation up until her death in 1960. In “Spunk, [...]
Passing Strange
Posted in Reviews, Theater, tagged "Passing Strange" "Stew and the Negro Problem" on September 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Passing Strangely Through Blackness
-Kwan Booth
For the last couple of weeks, downtown Berkeley has had a serious Negro Problem, and it’s name is Stew. Since mid October, Stew has been appearing in the play, “Passing Strange”, a coming of age travelogue that follows a young man’s search for self, art and “The Real” from Los [...]
Turn Off Channel Zero
Posted in Activism, Film, Media, Reviews on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Turn Off Channel Zero
By Kwan Booth ( April 12, 2007-Whatchusay.com)
It’s no secret that mainstream media’s coverage of African Americans is severely one- sided. From the nightly news to “reality shows” like “Cops” and “Flavor of Love” to almost every music video on BET, MTV and [...]
Dancing with Language: The Poems of Quincy Troupe
Posted in Books, Reviews, tagged "Quincy Troupe", "The Architecture of Language" on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dancing with Language: The Poems of Quincy Troupe
By Kwan Booth (April 15, 2007-Whatchusay.com)
For the over 30 years, the poet, professor, biographer and memoirist Quincy Troupe has been fooling around with words. From 1972’s “Embry” to the 1996’s “Avalanche” and up through his current volume, Troupe has made a career of reinterpreting the musicality in language. [...]
Open to Interpretation:Raymond Suanders Just Paints
Posted in Art, Reviews, tagged "Raymond Saunders", Art, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Open to Interpretation:Raymond Suanders Just Paints
By Kwan Booth (March 29, 2007-Novometro.com)
Ask painter Raymond Saunders anything about his life and he’ll give you rambling answers brimming with asides and anecdotes. He’ll talk freely about his childhood in Pittsburgh or attending the famed Carnegie Institute. He’ll gladly divulge details of his travels through Paris, Tokyo and Berlin, [...]
