The 2011 Dance of the Giglio Feast once again returns to East Harlem. It will be held on Pleasant Avenue between 114^th and 116^th Streets. Continue reading

Harlemites have had enough of a local pastor posting signs at his prominently-located church spewing hateful messages about President Obama.Continue reading

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW72tn9Hd5M&w=640&h=390] The kids at FC Harlem got a taste of what it is like to train like Rooney, Chicharito and Giggs as Manchester United ...Continue reading

"Hampton tenor man is now killing 'em on his own. Just a coincidence that the Apollo record star was caught at the Apollo theater here. Continue reading

From the from "Views of America" portfolio by James Augustus Van Der Zee in the 1920's. Continue reading

Portrait of Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill (far left is Melba Moore's father who managed Mintons Playhouse for many years), in front of Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947. Continue reading

By Walter Rutledge The forces of nature are categorized as hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and volcanos; unstoppable events that create change to the natural landscape. Continue reading

By Marc "The Raz" Rasbury For nearly four months, Football fans had to endure the ever changing outlooks stemming from various media outlets regarding the status of the NFL Lookout situation. Continue reading

The July 7^th ArtCrawl Harlem fund raising performance of an excerpt from On The Block was a very special and rewarding evening. The excerpt entitled Intimate Strangers was the first sections choreographed for what would evolve into an eighty-minute one-act production. When Artistic Director Sheila Rohan and I embarked on the production for the Nanette Bearden Contemporary Dance Theatre, we decided to create a modern day story ballet.Continue reading

By Yolande Brener Globetrippin’s chandelier, bookshelves and offer of cookie painting enticed me in to try a Chinese floral tea. Continue reading

I don’t know how many times I heard my aunt, Eartha, after whom I am named, tell this one particular story. According to her, I was three years old—telling everybody’s business—outside in front of her building with pen and paper, writing “a book.” I don’t remember that. Or even if I was able to write my own name at the age of three. Continue reading

I don’t know how many times I heard my aunt, Eartha, after whom I am named, tell this one particular story. According to her, I was three years old—telling everybody’s business—outside in front of her building with pen and paper, writing “a book.” I don’t remember that. Or even if I was able to write my own name at the age of three. Continue reading