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Frank Gehry, public artist: a year after its opening, Disney Hall is a huge popular success, a spectacular icon that draws crowds to downtown Los Angeles.
Now that the Walt Disney Concert Hall has passed its acoustics tests, revealing a bright and detailed yet blended, mellow sound and a democratic reach ......(Continue Reading) Blood money: Gettysburg's status as a national symbol is inseparable from its commercial success
Gettysburg: Memory, Market; and an American Shrine, by Jim Weeks, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 288 pages, $29.95 IN JULY 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee and...(Continue Reading)Culinary professionals and their favorite recipes: today, more than ever, African-Americans are entering into unique culinary professions—from winemaking
ROCHELLE Brown has helped to bring elements of the culinary world into the lives and living rooms of million of viewers around the world. She has played ......(Continue Reading)Polygram exec. demoted after racial statement; Motown chairman receives historic appointment - Eric Kronfeld slanders African American males and is demoted
A top PolyGram executive, who suggested in a court deposition that if record companies were prevented from hiring people with criminal records. no Blacks would be working in the music industry, ha...(Continue Reading)Auctioning off yesterday - protest against the sale of African American historical artifacts and documents
Black museum professionals and collectors are strongly opposed on the increasing trend of auctioning African American historical artifacts and documents ......(Continue Reading)
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