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Thursday, May 15, 2008 AestheticsA-Quil: Original and compelling By Dwight Hobbes A-Quil. Remember the name 'cause more than likely you'll hear it again: talent this strong generally refuses to be denied. Think The Last Poets. Think Twin Cities names like Truthmaze, Dessa, Toki Wright and Indigo in a wave of innovative Minneapolis and St. Paul artists who do things truly old school just with their own twist on it. More The Pact documents Newark kids' paths to success  By Kam Williams Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis and George Jenkins grew up in a Newark ghetto where only about 3% of the kids went on to college. And their own prospects probably weren't any better, given that they were each raised by a single mom in a broken home in a neighborhood blighted by gang violence, drugs, poverty, unemployment and crime. More DVD Examines Drive to Dance in the Midst of Ugandan Civil War  By Kam Williams In much the way that Amandla! (2002) paid tribute to the freedom songs that helped inspire Black South Africans topple the oppressive Apartheid regime, War Dance is a documentary about how the children of Uganda have turned to music and dance to take their minds off the intractable civil war which has ravaged the divided African nation for close to 20 years. More Gem of the Ocean By Dwight Hobbes When August Wilson's plays are good (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Two Trains Running, King Hedley II) they are very good. When they are not (Jitney, Seven Guitars, The Piano Lesson), they're a ponderous bore. Gem of the Ocean, running in its area premiere at The Guthrie Theater is an insufferable example of the latter. More |
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