In Black American folklore, music and poetry share the same soul. The poets of the Black Arts movement, particularly Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde and Amiri Baraka, were in touch with jazz as if it were of the same coterie, and they opened the door for the more music-driven spoken-word artists of the 1970s — Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets and The Watts Prophets, jazzmen who inspired hip-hop. All understood that poems not only could be music, but had an inherent musicality: that performance merely brought its natural rhythm and voice to the ear, and that poetry could " Read More...
Explain it to me quicklyFashionThe Sun sent a reporter on a horrifying assignment. For our series Explain It To Me Quickly, one Guardian Australia staffer asked another to explain why … quickly
There seem to be only three topics animating our colleagues today: the Australian election, Game of Thrones and duct tape fashion. I’ve read too much about the first two. Please explain the third.
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Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary may be known as Mr. Wonderful on the show, but he also embraces his Chef Wonderful alter-ego who insists he has the secret for cooking the perfect Thanksgiving turkey.
“Less is more with turkey,” he explained to Showbiz Cheat Sheet. “Number one is trussing. People think they can use paper string to truss the wings. That never works because once you get in the oven at 325, 10, 12, 15, or 13 minutes a pound, that burns off at about 20 minutes. Read More...