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“When the Saints Go Marching in” – Louis Armstrong
“Long Live New Orleans” – Godfathers of Groove
“Reaching One” – Wendy and Lisa
“Come Running to Me” – Herbie Hancock
“Estrella Del Mar” – Adonis Rose
“Grownup Boy” – Matthew Flowers
“The Moment” – Adama
“Recordame” – Josh Anderson
“Don’t Call Me Wally” – Orrin Evans
“Circle of Seasons” – Karen Young, Eric Auclair
“Down By the Riverside” – Joe Edwards
Just a note to catch my Twitter updates at @MandrakeAM while at the Creating Change conference. Connect!
Five years ago, when this podcast journey began on this site, I conducted my first interviews at an ice cream shop in the Bishop Arts District owned and operated by Rosa Lopez, called Suenos Sabrosos. While working at the ice cream shop and since its closure in 2007, she also serves at the executive director of Vecinos Unidos, a neigborhood based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1992 that helps individuals and families who earn 80% or below the area median income become first time homeowners as well as address neighborhood security, public services (streets, animal protection, parks, garbage, and postal service), education, health, and economic development.
Tonight, Tuesday, February 2nd from 7pm to 10pm, our neighborhood is coming together to help raise funds for Vecinos Unidos at the site of Rosa Lopez’s old store, now occupied by the equally wonderful Cafe Espumuso, 408 N. Bishop Avenue in Dallas. Hosting tonight’s event will be Tommie Kearney and among the features will be Oak Cliff literary rock star and co-owner of Cliff Notes Prolonged Media, Opalina Herebia-Salas. Stop by to listen or perform, learn more and donate to Vecinos Unidos, and grab some very tasty empanadas and a smoothie.
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“Feel Like Makin’ Love” – Izit
“Lagos Blues” – Antonio Ciacca
“New York Vibe” – Sean Nowell
“The Villain” – Birds & Batteries
“Wallflower Blues” – Somi
“I Got Your Back” – Rick Braun
“Summerheat” – Bill King
“Something More” – Erin Bode
“Bahian Smiles” – Raydience
“Beauty On a Grey Day” – Mike Lindup
“Que Sensacion” – Tito Puente
Shop for guitars, basses, keyboards, percussion, amps, as well as recording, mixing, lighting, and DJ gear at Musician’s Friend
Since Dallas is hosting the Creating Change event at the downtown Sheraton hotel, a lot of my energy has been focused on that here at the blog. However, John Meyer and the gang at Pegasus News grabbed some great trailers for this year’s Texas Black Film Festival screenings happening February 4 – 6 at the Studio Movie Grill. This year’s theme is “Peace through Independent Film” and unlike my concern with last year’s film festival, this year’s late night shorts at least holds some same-gender loving intrigue with the film, Nobody Has to Know, screening as a part of the Late Night Short Film Series at 10pm on Friday, February 5th. The film features music by American classical musician, Paul Sayed. From the way the trailer is set up though, it looks as if it’s back to the “down low” from mainstream Black film audiences. Or is it?
Another film that is catching my eye is, “Herskovits: at the Heart of Blackness”. The film is about Jewish anthopologist, Melville Herskovits, and his founding research into the field of African-American studies. The trailer is below the flyer.
More information on this year’s screenings, times, and cost at the Texas Black Film Festival website.
Here’s a note from my friends in Equality March Texas:
The First Annual Holocaust Candelight March will be this January 27th, 2010 at 7:00pm. We will walk on the sidewalks from the Fountain at Oak Lawn/Armstrong to the Oak Lawn/Cedar Spring’s Memorial.
The event will then move inside the Melrose Hotel where free Hot Chocolate, Hot Apple Cider and Desserts will be served while we hear from featured speakers.
Honoring the 63,000 gay men and women who were killed during the Holocaust has never been more important, especially with the potential genocide of GLBT people in Uganda.
Please join us for what is sure to be a moving event that we hope will bring together the larger community’s focus on remembering the Holocaust itself, as well as educating them about how it began in part with targeting the German gay community.
For more info, visit Equality March Texas website.
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This week, I discuss past and present activism within the Dallas LGBT and African-American communities with Alpha Thomas. A long-time activist, mother, and breast cancer survivor, Alpha recalls her cross-coalition work towards HIV awareness and gay adoptions, as well as discussing her intent to re-start Umoja Hermanos, a poetry and support circle for lesbians of color.
I’m also talking with Mark Anthony Lord, founder and director of the Bodhi Spiritual Center in Chicago, Illinois, and central visionary for the Liberation 2010, a new conference focusing on Spirituality and LGBTQ people. Liberation 2010 will be in Los Angeles, California, April 8 -11, 2010. I’m speaking with Mark by phone about his spiritual background, and what exactly sparked this conference. Register for the conference at http://www.liberation2010.com
Music in the show from producer, Aspect.One’s project, Vibe Over. Grab while you can at Bandcamp.
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“You’ve Got it Bad Girl” – Gene Dunlap
“Too Close” – Pete Belasco
“Big Brother” – Larry Goldings
“Hold On” – Nathan Gaines
“Another Star” – Dee Daniels
“Blues For Isaiah” – James Vincent
“Visions” – Indigone Trio & Strings
“Parkdale” – Elizabeth Shepherd
“Berimbau-Consolacao” – Sergio Mendes
“High Pockets and a Fanny Pack” – Charlie Hunter
“Heaven is Ten Zillion Light Years Away” – Stevie Wonder
