Author: mick

HAIR final show Sunday 2-10-19 2pm matinee Mixed Blood Theater-Minneapolis Music by Stephen Houtz, JD Lee and mick laBriola

“Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.”  Liu Xiaobo

This attractive, nearly face-on barred spiral galaxy glows at magnitude 10.1 and measures 12.0′ by 7.4′. To find it, point your telescope 2° east of Gamma (γ) Trianguli. Through a small scope, NGC 925’s figure appears indistinct, but an 8-inch or larger instrument reveals the spiral arms that fold back abruptly from a long bar….

Emmanuel N’Djoké Dibango (born 12 December 1933) is a Cameroonian musician and song-writer who plays saxophone and vibraphone. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. His father was a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, though his mother was a Duala. He is best known for his 1972 single “Soul…

Walter “Baby Sweets” Perkins (February 10, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois – February 14, 2004 in Queens, New York) was an American jazz drummer. Starting out in Chicago, Perkins began his professional career with Ahmad Jamal in 1956–57. He recorded for Argo Records in 1957 as a leader under the name MJT+3 with Paul Serrano [de] on…

William Henry “Chick” Webb (February 10, 1905 – June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader. Webb was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to William H. and Marie Webb. From childhood, he suffered from tuberculosis of the spine, leaving him with short stature and a badly deformed…

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/theater/hair-theater-55-minneapolis.html