For those celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday, have a lovely one. For those not celebrating the holiday, have a nice Thursday, wherever you are. If you are celebrating Thanksgiving, you’re going to get sick of turkey pretty soon and need an alternative. And if you’re not celebrating Thanksgiving, you’ll need something to eat anyway. That’s why […]

Listening to Cab Calloway’s daughter a few nights ago— look here for details— brought to mind the night, some time back, when we went to Pat and Scott’s place and took in the classic all-black 1943 film Stormy Weather. The film was a sort of who’s who of black talent for the period. Fats Waller […]

This weekend we sojourned once again to Socorro, the Athens of the Southwest, to check out Chris Calloway. This isn’t the football player, or the wrestler, but the niece of pioneering band leader Blanche Calloway, the daughter of Cab Calloway, and the god-daughter of Lena Horne. “Chris,” by the way, is short for “Christopher.” By […]

I used to hang out with a shockingly talented group of people. (Not that I don’t now, of course.)But over the years people move or fade away or just lose touch. In the old days that would pretty much be that, but nowadays there’s Google to help you keep up with the old gang.Every so […]