This Week in History: 1966: A paint-in at the courthouse captivates Vancouver On April 1, Vancouver Mayor Bill Rathie had a brainwave: to hold a mural competition on the construction hoarding. He even put up $90 of his own money for prizes.
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Publishing date: Apr 09, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 3 minute read • B.C. s minister of works, William Neelands Chant, looks over a primitive painting at the paint-in on the construction hoarding outside the Vancouver courthouse on April 7, 1966. With Chant are his granddaughters Judy and Diana. Bill Cunningham/Province Photo by Bill Cunningham /PNG
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In 1966, the provincial government announced it was going to install a fountain on the lawn of the provincial courthouse at 800 West Georgia (now the site of the Vancouver Art Gallery).
Nat King Cole was beaten on a Birmingham stage 65 years ago today
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This photo, part of an archived series Alabama Media Group is donating to the Alabama Department of Archives, shows Cole backstage before the Birmingham show. It was shot by either Norman Dean, Eldred Perry or Robert Adams, all of The Birmingham News.
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In his mind, it should have been the next best thing to a hometown show.
Nat King Cole was a Montgomery native whose velvet voice propelled him to stardom with hits like “Unforgettable” and “Mona Lisa” and in a few months would launch his own NBC variety show (the first hosted by a Black man).
15 March 2021
Pianist and bandleader Jon Batiste is a near-perfect representative of what it means to be a millennial jazz musician in 2021. And that means that he is simultaneously a kind of jazz royalty from a famed New Orleans jazz family with deep roots, educated both at that city’s famed Center for Creative Arts
and at New York’s Julliard, and mentored by Wynton Marsalis, with two “Live at the Village Vanguard” albums under his belt and that his most recent recording is a genre-spanning mostly-non-jazz work of autobiography.
Batiste’s talents are multimedia powerful. Most prominently, perhaps, he is an on-air personality and bandleader for CBS’s
Nat King Cole with his daughter Natalie (Image: Getty)
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He received medical help, where a malignant tumour was found on his left lung.
The singer was told he had lung cancer and would not live much longer, but despite this devastating news, he continued recording, going into the studio in San Francisco to sing with an orchestra.
These recordings were released on the album L-O-V-E, named after one of his famous songs, before his death.
After working at the beginning of December, he went to Santa Monica to hospital to receive treatment, asking Frank Sinatra to perform in his place at an engagement days later.
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