Mahalia Jackson News

Amid a boldly invigorating score, a kinetic cast that pulsates with energy, and a multilayered, gut-wrenching plot, sits Celie, the quiet and courageous heroine of "The Color Purple." Her struggle is the very heart and soul of this powerful musical, now playing at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts.

What happens when you mix African-American music tradition with the Jewish faith? You get kosher gospel - a blending of Hebrew and Jewish music with soul.

Stihophone.ru, or the Virtual Theater of Poetry, offers mp3 recordings of poets reading themselves and actors reading poets.

General critical consensus holds Mahalia Jackson as the greatest gospel singer ever to live; a major crossover success whose popularity extended across racial divides, she was gospel's first superstar, and even decades after her death remains for many listeners a defining symbol of the music's transcendent power.

The Rev. Thomas H. Brown Sr., nearly 80 and suffering from emphysema and arthritis, got the bad word from the doctor recently.

Tickets for the Opera House Theatre Players encore production of "Mahalia!" are beginning to move steadily, according to theatre director Marcia Thomas.

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After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Charley Humbard began looking for something more meaningful in his life.

The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Neptune, Jupiter and Uranus.

Some people try to sneak under the radar when they reach 40; others make it a public affair, celebrating achievements, savoring the moment and looking toward the future.

Even for a jaded movie hound like myself, it's been a revelation to experience both the quality and range of feature-length documentaries now available for home viewing.

If you're interested in hearing some superb gospel singing, don't miss Sharon E. Scott in Just As I Am: The Life, the Times, The Voice of Mahalia Jackson .

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Business and city leaders gathered in Progress Plaza yesterday to hail an investment by one of the city's prominent black churches in a black-owned bank that serves North Philadelphia and other parts of the city.

'Mahalia' musical opens Thursday at Studio@620 The premiere of the new musical, Mahalia, Just As I Am , by Sharon Scott opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Studio@620. The musical focuses on the life and times of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, considered by many to be the greatest gospel singer of all time.

Victoria Thomas Poller Michael Jackson's new song release "This Is It" www.michaeljackson.com/us/music/it-0 contains the 'Passion' that Michael Jackson had which we all have come to know and love.

Betsy Salkind was a bank examiner with the U.S. Federal Reserve. Thankfully, she chose to give up that high-risk career and instead enter the safe, sound world of stand-up comedy.

The Studio@620 produces the world premiere of Sharon Scott's new musical,"Mahalia, Just As I Am," running Oct.

The academic journal Project Muse, published in collaboration with John Hopkins Univ Press, has devoted its fall issue to New Orleans.