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Kristen Wiig, left, and Annie Mumolo in “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.” (Cate Cameron/Lionsgate )
There’s a tiny oasis on the west coast of Florida where the men wear Tommy Bahama from head to toe and women of a certain age stroll around poolside in tube tops and full jewelry.
It’s a “middle-age nirvana” where crabs talk and you can eat veal-stuffed manatee while wearing your evening culottes and sip tropical drinks served in a mini-aquarium.
This oasis is called Vista Del Mar, and it’s the wacky invention of Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who co-wrote and co-star in “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” a gentle salute to women in their 40s getting their groove back.
W. Royal Stokes has lived a jazz life as unpredictable as the music
Chris Richards, The Washington Post
Feb. 26, 2021
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1of5Jazz critic W. Royal Stokes at a 2005 book reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D..C.Erika HartmannShow MoreShow Less
2of5 The Essential W. Royal Stokes Jazz, Blues and Beyond Reader is out now.W. Royal StokesShow MoreShow Less
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4of5W. Royal Stokes. a champion of women in jazz, wrote several profiles of female performers, including pianist Shirley Horn, photographed in 2004 with bassist Ed Howard.Washington Post photo by Dudley M. BrooksShow MoreShow Less
5of5 One foot back in the past, one foot into the future. That s how the critic W. Royal Stokes describes the way he hears jazz after living 90 years on this dizzy planet - and it makes for a pretty good description of how we experience life, too. It s a continuity, a perpetual improvisation, a negotiation between what we know and what we don