My Big Night Out With Fats Waller

The inimitable Fats Waller gave it to me. In 1943, if you couldn’t get a ticket to the new Broadway hit “Oklahoma!” one show ...

Race, music, strong women at heart of movie 'Ma Rainey'

Film drama "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" may be set in the racially divided United States of the 1920s and was written almost 40 ...
The Big Issue

The brass band bringing the cracking tunes of Wallace & Gromit to life

The Fairey Band have been British brass band champions nine times, now they're bringing the soundtrack of Wallace & Gromit to ...

Film, concert honoring iconic Bay Area singer Barbara Dane comes to Oakland

Starting with the 2018 double album “Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs,” an anthology released by Smithsonian Folkways spanning six decades of Dane’s music-making, Menendez also oversaw her ...
GV Wire

Fresno Celebrates Central Valley Honor Flight With Special Day

Fresno city officials declared Oct. 30th as Central Valley Honor Flight Day, celebrating 12 years of honoring veterans.

'Middlesbrough we are different': 1920s speakeasy bar prepares to open - but it's for over 35s only

Combining opulence and the elegant glamour of the 1920s The Prohibition Bar is aiming for something a little different ...