Cabaret @ Mixed Blood
Thursday February 8th 2024 7pm. Cabaret by Theatre 55 at the Mixed Blood Theater on the West Bank. Music with Shirley Mier, Lyra Olson, Jeff Ruhnke, Brian Handeland, Bebe Keith and mick laBriola!
Author: mick
Cosmos NGC 104
Globular star cluster 47 Tucanae is a jewel of the southern sky. Also known as NGC 104, it roams the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy along with some 200 other globular star clusters. The second brightest globular cluster (after Omega Centauri) as seen from planet Earth, 47 Tuc lies about 13,000 light-years away. It…
Floyd Dixon
Floyd Dixon (February 8, 1929 – July 26, 2006) was an American rhythm-and-blues pianist and singer. Dixon was born in Marshall, Texas. Some sources give his birth name as Jay Riggins Jr., although Dixon himself stated that Floyd Dixon was his real name and that his parents were Velma and Ford Dixon. Growing up, he was…
John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer and conductor. In a career that has spanned seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable and critically acclaimed film scores in cinema history. He has a very distinct sound that mixes romanticism, impressionism and atonal music with complex orchestration. He…
Lonnie Johnson
Alonzo “Lonnie” Johnson (February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazzsinger, guitarist, violinist and songwriter. He was a pioneer of jazz guitar and jazz violin and is recognized as the first to play an electrically amplified violin. Johnson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in a family of…
Bob Marley Interview by Martin Keller 1978?
Thanks to Alan Freed, Mick LaBriola and the many others who reminded us what would have been Bob Marley’s 76th birthday yesterday. Here’s a telling excerpt about interviewing him for 2+ hours the day after the Northrop concert, from my account in HIJINX & HEARSAY – and 2 of Greg Helgeson’s wonderful photos of Marley….
Cosmos NGC 4038
Pictured is the pair of galaxies cataloged as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039,known as the Antennae Galaxies. Because they are only 60 million light years away, close by intergalactic standards, the pair is one of the best studied interacting galaxies on the night sky. Their strong attraction began about a billion years ago when they…
Earl King
Earl Silas Johnson IV (February 7, 1934 – April 17, 2003), known as Earl King, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most active in blues music. A composer of blues standards such as “Come On” (covered by Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King, Stevie Ray Vaughan) and “Big Chief” (recorded by Professor Longhair), he was an…
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