Mad Love: The Ballad of Fred & Allie
The sin was not so much the taking of the throat as the wanting of it in the first place. And what a fine throat it was, the way it captured those who saw it: men loitering at the Customs House; boys down by the river, who stretched their own necks to catch a glimpse of its fine whiteness; eventually the entire nation. But Alice Mitchell was the first to be lassoed by Frederica Ward’s charms, becoming hooked while they were still schoolgirls.
It must have been the way Frederica walked into the music room at The Higbee School for Young Ladies. The Higbee School took only the best girls, from the best families in Memphis not always the first families, those with places at the Cotton Exchange on Front Street, mind, but always the most respectable families, which is how Frederica’s people were set, a touch heavier on the respectability than the money. But my God, how that girl could twirl her hips like the women selling their wares down on Ponto
Coquille Fine Seafood Exterior (Hanna McLean/Daily Hive)
The 100-seat Gastown restaurant came to us from L’Abattoir Chefs Lee Cooper and Jack Chen. Daily Hive reached out for a reason for the closure but did not hear back.
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Musette Caffé was a licensed, bike-friendly cafe and bar located at 1325 Burrard Street that had been open since Spring 2016.
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YEW seafood + bar officially closed its doors in January, just ahead of the Four Seasons Vancouver shuttering its doors for good as well.
Who Is Ma Rainey? How the Mother of the Blues Became an Icon Author: Latifah Muhammad Updated: 9:00 AM MST December 18, 2020
Ma Rainey’s title as the “mother of the blues” is an ode to her unremitted genius in transforming the genre despite a relatively short recording career. Now streaming on Netflix,
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, starring Viola Davis as the brazen blues legend and Chadwick Boseman in his final film role, has brought new attention to Rainey’s mystifying story.
Adapted from August Wilson’s Broadway play of the same name, the film explores an intense 1927 Chicago recording session between Rainey and her band members, with Davis delivering an unapologetic portrayal of the singer.
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