Jazz critic Stanley Crouch visited Onondaga Community College about a decade ago. Crouch’s biography of sax player Charlie Parker (vol 1) is also great history of Kansas City, once called the Paris of the Plains.
Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Throwback Thursday: Sense of Place
Thursday, June 26th, 2014Positivity
Wednesday, May 14th, 2014Here’s part one of our conversation with Arel Moodie.
Dreaming Big is Required
Monday, February 24th, 2014
We all like a good story about overcoming odds and transforming misfortune into triumph. That’s the story Rosie Perez talked about during an interview today (publicizing her book on NPR). Perez went from Soul Train dancer to actor, to victim rights advocate and motivational speaker. She is pictured above during a visit to the Southwest Community Center, where she was a keynote speaker (2011).
What’s Cooking
Friday, December 6th, 2013
Vegetable Delight (Kitchen Series)
Thanks to the customer service department of the Dewitt Barnes & Noble for unveiling for us the newly arrived The Photography of the Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold recently. The coffee-table book, which may be more dense and than a coffee table itself, features the perfect blend of science, photography and gastronomy. The macro shots, microscopic shots and high-speed shots are captured in Myhrvold’s lab/kitchen using a variety of cameras puts a new-school, almost Gladwellian spin on previous a previous work by Charles Jones. Here is a clip of Myhrvold talking to Charlie Rose this week about the project. The book is a great gift idea for all you photographers, scientists or body builders.
Found in Translation
Friday, June 21st, 2013We know the semester is over, but how cool is it that historian/cultural critic Greg Tate, a professor at Brown University, used two Syracusans as a reference for his course this Spring on Afro-futurism? Tate gives the Cuse an indirect shout-out by talking about singer Grace Jones and writer George S. Schuyler. And speaking of academics, we wonder how many students know that Schuyler’s papers are housed at Bird Library at Syracuse University (special collections).
Strolling Toward Wanderkammer
Friday, April 12th, 2013
Poet Cynthia Cruz gave a reading at the Point of Contact Gallery on Thursday.
As a continuation of the Cruel April series, the Point of Contact hosted California-raised, Brooklyn-based writer Cynthia Cruz yesterday. She read from four of her books with poems that featured themes such as religion, love, and loss. During the Q+A session , the soft-spoken Cruz shared part of her writing and editing process.
Silver Box
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
Free Check-out at the SYR LFL
Click here to find out about book donation to the Syracuse Little Free Libraries.
Beyond ESL
Friday, April 5th, 2013
Author, educator, photographer and performance artist Josefina Baez came to the Point of Contact Gallery on East Genesee Street on Thursday. She read from her acclaimed collection Dominicanish (with a prologue written by SU professor Silvio Torres-Saillant). The reading alternated between Spanish and English and featured themes such as cultural identity and relationships. I don’t wait to be inspired, I just live, Baez told one of the students.
Community Ecology
Saturday, February 16th, 2013
SU Press recently published a book by environmental activist Dr. K. Animashaun Ducre titled A Place Called Home.
The book examines cycles of disruption and dislocation in Syracuse. It began with a study Dr. Ducre conducted using a blended methodology of photo voice (visual story-telling) and mapping (geographic analysis). Dr. Ducre talks in this interview about the characters in the book (women from Syracuse’s South side) and her efforts to bear witness to social injustice.
Throwback Thursday: Taye Diggs
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Actor Taye Diggs, who earlier this week fought off an intruder at his home, came to Syracuse a few years ago and read from his book Chocolate Me. The event was held at the Greater Evangelical COGIC. Fellow SU Alum Shane Evans provided the sounds.