my friend Margo has a veritable smorgasbord of short-legged dogs in her family, and I did these cartoons as a present for her mom. Canine stylings featuring Joey, Pickles, Charles, Chubbs and Frank
Ace is a lively 2 year old who just wants to have fun. He loves to play with other dogs and is always ready to wrestle or race around the yard. He also loves being with people and his happy, vibrant personality will light up a room. He’s house-trained and well-mannered indoors. Ace is a high energy clown who will require a patient, experienced Northern-breed owner and a very playful canine companion in his forever home. If interested in adopting Ace, please submit an online adoption application. For more information, call Kirt at 505-967-6949. The adoption fee for Ace is $150.
“He was described as a black Wagner in the late 19th century, went on to write more than 20 operas and formed the Negro Grand Opera Company, which he once conducted at Carnegie Hall. But after the pioneering African-American composer H. Lawrence Freeman died in 1954, he fell into obscurity, with his works unpublished, unrecorded and, for decades, unperformed.
Until now. Mr. Freeman’s opera “Voodoo,” about a love triangle on a plantation in post-Civil War Louisiana, will be given its first performances since 1928 on Friday and Saturday at the Miller Theater at Columbia University. The revival offers a glimpse of a nearly forgotten chapter of African-American operatic achievement, and another chance for Mr. Freeman to claim the place in musical history he had always sought against long odds, lengthened by discrimination.
“Voodoo” might have remained an unheard and unperformed historical footnote had Mr. Freeman’s family not placed his papers and scores in Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 2007. The collection interested scholars, who were drawn to his accounts of the Harlem Renaissance, and also came to fascinate Annie Holt, a graduate student who cataloged it. A year later she helped start a small opera company of her own, Morningside Opera, with the vague idea of someday mounting one of Mr. Freeman’s forgotten operas.
That is how the strains of “Voodoo,” in which passages of Wagnerian grandeur alternate with spirituals and a cakewalk, came to be heard again for the first time in decades last week in practice rooms at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem, where Morningside Opera and its partners in the production, Harlem Opera Theater and the Harlem Chamber Players, ran through the work.”
Me every time I’m about to clock in: One Day The Communists Will Come And Reclaim What Was Stolen From The Workers All These Years. Soon The Proletariat Shall Rise And Gut The Capitalist Pigs As They Have Gutted Our Life Chances. Until Then I Will Try Very Hard Not To Think About Surplus Value While I’m Clocked In.
