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Gaslighting Another Black Community For Fun & Profit

Scratch beneath any story in Coconut Grove and you’ll discover the issue of race lurking. We’ll get to that eventually, but this true fable — with a twist on the race issue — starts with the approval of a Wawa gas station in the City of Coral Gables. So what? Cities approve gas stations all the time. However, this approval didn’t have any public consultation with the community, nor public hearings, both of which would normally have taken place. And, that’s ...

Aunty Em Ericann’s Bun Fight With James Rosen of Fox “News”

Pic: Fair use I didn’t start it, but those who know me, or those who have grown to know and love Aunty Em Ericann, know that I won’t walk ...

Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra ► Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be

Dateline: May 12, 1960 – Elvis Presley, newly returned from the U.S. Army, serving Uncle Sam, makes his first network tee vee appearance with Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra: And ...

Sick Joke of the Day

While perusing the Fox News facebook page to see if I liked any of the people it liked, I came across the following that still has me laughing out loud. Unretouched ...

Day In History ► May 7 ► The Beatles’ Last U.S. Single

Dateline 1970 – The Beatles released “The Long and Winding Road” on this day. It would turn out to be the last single The Beatles ever released in ‘Merka. A month earlier, ...

Happy Birthday Dennis Cowan ► Bonzo Dog Band ► May 6

The Bonzo Dog Band Happy Birthday to Dennis Cowan, celebrating the big Six Five today. Dennis was bassist for the Bonzo Dog Band, originally The Bonzo Dog Dada Band, then The ...

R.I.P. ► Lloyd Brevett ► Skatalites Bassist

Jamaica mourns one of her native sons in the passing of Lloyd Brevett, original bassist for The Skatalites, at the age of 80. Brevett was there at the beginning. It ...

Happy Birthday Willie Nelson – Still Crazy After All These Years

Willie Nelson turns 79 today and he’s still going strong, dropping his new CD “Heroes” next month, featuring Merle Haggard, Snoop Dogg, Kris Kristofferson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Sheryl Crow, among ...

It’s Duke Ellington Day in NYC!!!

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has declared today Duke Ellington Day, on what would have been the 110th birthday of the musical legend. Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington died in ...

Musical Interlude – The Beach Boys – Heroes and Villains

This is such a great video. The SMiLE Sessions is hours and hours of tape from the never-released masterpiece SMiLE by The Beach Boys, who are celebrating their 50th Anniversary ...

Stephen Colbert at the Time 100’s Most Influential Dinner

Time Magazine held its annual 100 Most Influential chicken dinner. As usual Stephen Colbert was the most influential, delivering some hard truthinesswith his bon mots. “Of course, all of us should ...

Jon Stewart Does It Again – The Rupert Murdoch Edition

The writers at the Daily Show have a way of taking rather a complex story and boiling it down to its essence and humorous possibilities. This week I watched the ...

Unpacking My Detroit – Part One

This is the first in a continuing series about Detroit, Michigan, my home town. I believe Detroit is emblematic of everything wrong with ‘Merka. At one time Detroit was the ...

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