This full length performance, recorded at Estival Jazz Lugano in 2009, features Hugh Masekela and his sextet performing eight numbers including his famous hit Grazing In The Grass.
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8/25/25 O&A NYC THE MORNING FUNNIES: JD Vance Rushed To Walter Reed After Inner Hillbilly Returns
After decades in remission, vice president JD Vance abruptly began slurring his speech and blowing on a “hootin’ jug” during a Cabinet meeting this morning. Continue reading
8/24/25 O&A NYC GOSPEL SUNDAY: Shirley Caesar, Dorthy Norwood, Inez Andrews, & Albertina Walker – Mary Don’t You Weep and More
The Caravans (Inez Andrews, Dorthy Norwood, Shirley Caesar, Albertina Walker, Delores Washington) singing at the 2007 BET Gospel Celebration. Continue reading
8/24/25 O&A NYC THE SUNDAY MORNING FUNNIES: Bedtime Bible Story Time With Betty Bowers America’s Best Christian
Join me–won’t you?–while I regale my family with the charming story in 2 Kings 2:23-24, wherein the Lord sicced a pair of voracious bears on 42 kids. Glory! –Mrs.Betty Bowers (America’s Best Christian).
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8/23/25 O&A NYC SATURDAY MORNING CONCERT: Chaka Khan Live in Chicago (2019)
Celebrate the legendary career of Chaka Khan, the multi-genre vocalist at a concert at the Harris Theater in her hometown of Chicago. Performances include Khan’s greatest R&B, pop, funk and jazz hits, including I Feel For You’ and ‘Tell Me Something Good. Continue reading
8/23/25 O&A NYC THE MORNING FUNNIES: South Park – Trump’s DC Military Deployment
In a South Park August 2025 episode titled Sickofancy, South Park brutally parodied President Donald Trump‘s federal takeover of the D.C. police and his broader administration. The episode continued the 27th season’s theme of satirizing the Trump presidency, with the most recent plot focusing on his deployment of military forces in Washington, D.C., under the pretense of a crime crackdown
8/23/25 O&A NYC MEET THE ARTIST: Sekou Tepaka Lunda Conde – Muntu Dance Theater
By Walter Rutledge
Lights! Camera! Action! The Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project’s Unbound: Shattered Frames, Endless Visions is finally here. This Black dance extravaganza will that place tonight, August 23, 6pm at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. Continue reading
8/22/25 O&A NYC IRIE FRIDAY: Bob Marley & The Wailers – Could You Be Loved
Could You Be Loved is a song by Jamaican- born Reggae band Bob Marley and the Wailers. It was released in 1980 as the first single from their twelfth and last album, Uprising and is also included on their greatest-hits album Legend (1984). Continue reading
8/22/25 O&A NYC SHALL WE DANCE FRIDAY: Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project’s Artists Speak
By Walter Rutledge
The Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project (CBDLP) 2025 presentation, Unbound: Shattered Frames, Endless Visions will grace the stage of the Harris Theater for Music and Dance this Saturday, August 23, 6pm. This unprecedented dance/theatre event showcases ten of Chicago’s most dynamic and diverse dance companies. The event is more than a dance concert. The production is a collective of Chicago-based artists celebrating the continued historic contributions of the Black dance community on the city’s cultural landscape. Continue reading
8/21/25 O&A NYC DANCE: O&A NYC Embeds With CBDLP for Chicago Dance Event
By Walter Rutledge
Out and About NYC Magazine (O&A NYC) will embed with the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project (CBDLP) for the Unbound: Shattered Frames, Endless Visions performance on Saturday, August 23, 6pm at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. The magazine has begun to document the artists from the ten dance companies performing in this unprecedented evening of Black dance excellence. The event is being documented with written commentary, video interviews and a review of the performance. The historic and cultural importance of this “consortium of the creative” needs to be brought to the attention of the theater going public. Not just in the great city of Chicago but to our international audience. Continue reading
