Alvin Ailey Dance Theater

Our nation is not known for celebrating cultural and artistic or political and social achievements. A notable exception is The Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of which was recently awarded posthumously to the legendary choreographer, Alvin Ailey. 

The First Great Novel and 74 more

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.” – Barbara Tuchman

i thank You God for this most amazing e.e.cummings

Edwards Estlin (e.e.) Cummings (1894-1962) wrote 2,900 poems in his lifetime.

To the Book of Faces I Return

50 Great Song Lyrics; First Line Division

From "Row, Row, Row your boat" to Notorious B.I.G.'s "You're nobody until somebody kills you" every hit song needs a melody and a lyric that grabs you by the ear within seconds and won't let go - that stay with you for the rest of the day, that delivers plenty of "plop, plop, fizz, fizz." 
Then there are the great songs that quicken the mind and pulse; that linger as long as there is memory. These are songs that remind us that no matter the time or place, somewhere, another's heart understood your own. When the music is wedded to a great lyric, the understanding is apparent within the very first words. 

The First Line Champs

The Rumble in the Jungle

FORTY YEARS AGO, ON OCTOBER 30, 1974, THE GREATEST ATHLETE MANY OF US  HAVE EVER SEEN,USING HIS FISTS, WITS AND COURAGE, BEAT GEORGE FOREMAN, THE MOST FEARSOME HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF HIS TIME IN THE RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE,  

HERE IS HOW HE DID IT,