MONEY & BUSINESS Rashomon in Blue Memory versus truth in a police brutality case.
Stacked above the two inflatable air chambers were a blue memory foam, another proprietary foam called Intralux and a thin white scrim with a honeycomb pattern on it.
Now the ball is somewhere on Staten Island, he said, or wherever the waters carried it — a red, white and blue memory that he can no longer touch.
(Cotter) Galleries: Uptown Yishai Jusidman: 'Prussian Blue — Memory After Representation' (through March 23) These well-made, photo-based paintings render various gas chambers built at Nazi concentration camps in shades of Prussian blue.
A new play, "No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks," stresses the poet's radicalism.
They wrote "No Blue Memories" together after forming a partnership that they named Crescendo Literary, after a line in Brooks's poem "To the Diaspora".
By Doreen St. Félix March 3, 2018 A new play, "No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks," stresses the poet's radicalism.
In "No Blue Memories," Brooks, played by N. LaQuis Harkins, reads some of the letters she wrote to her admirers of all ages, including a character based on Etheridge Knight, a Black Arts Movement poet who wrote "Poems from Prison".
"There is a Midwestern cultural aspect to it — a cultural norm of sharing and abundance, rather than scarcity and competition," Ewing told me, shortly before the last production of "No Blue Memories".
In "No Blue Memories," Brooks, played by N. LaQuis Harkins, reads some of the letters she wrote to her admirers of all ages, including a character based on Etheridge Knight, a Black Arts Movement poet who wrote "Poems from Prison". With "Annie Allen,'' a poetry collection published in 1949, when she was just thirty-two, became became the first black person to win the Pulitzer Prize.
I thought of West's anecdote last November, when I visited Chicago to see "No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks," a shadow-box play written by the Chicago poets Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall and staged by the local theatre troupe Manual Cinema at the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium in the Harold Washington Library Center.
