Download or read book Orange Lips and the Barbecue People and Other Plays written by Robert Reichardt and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains six fascinating comedies by the avant-garde playwright, Robert Reichardt. Each is unique in its subject matter, and dazzling in originality. ORANGE LIPS AND THE BARBECUE PEOPLE answers the question about what happens to people when they wind up in Purgatory -- that in-between place described by Dante. Do they just sit and wait? No, they barbecue and run the lives of selected people still on Earth. A group of obnoxious barbecue people get involved with the family of Kenny "Orange Lips" Jung, and this leads to riotous conflict. ECHO AND THE CAMOUFLAGE, is set in modern Chicago, and is loosely based on the Greek Myth of Echo, Narcissus, and Queen Hera. A young blind girl, Echo Seltsam, is suddenly cured and transformed by a miracle into The Blue Lady -- a person of unlimited power. What she does with it, and how it effects her narcissistic, camouflage-wearing Father, Jerry, and others provides the comic structure of the play. The short play, KAREN, THE FUSE LADY, describes a bizarre Summer "romance" in a cheap Chicago tenement, as a young renter becomes involved with his neurotic neighbor. He battles to save his electricity (and sanity) from a woman who has other ideas about how he should live his life. HAT-P-1, OR A BIG CRUNCH. After scientists predict the Universe will soon end in a "Big Crunch," a group gathers in an affluent Chicago suburb for a black-tie party to comfort one another. It doesn't work out that way. The guests soon discover a lot about one another (not much of it good), and engage in various forms of escapism -- primarily focused on unrealistic thoughts about going to HAT-P-1, a newly discovered gigantic planet so light and fluffy it would float on water.
Download or read book Smokelore written by Jim Auchmutey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbecue: It’s America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, the colonial era, slavery, the Civil War, the settling of the West, the coming of immigrants, the Great Migration, the rise of the automobile, the expansion of suburbia, the rejiggering of gender roles. It encompasses every region and demographic group. It is entwined with our politics and tangled up with our race relations. Jim Auchmutey follows the delicious and contentious history of barbecue in America from the ox roast that celebrated the groundbreaking for the U.S. Capitol building to the first barbecue launched into space almost two hundred years later. The narrative covers the golden age of political barbecues, the evolution of the barbecue restaurant, the development of backyard cooking, and the recent rediscovery of traditional barbecue craft. Along the way, Auchmutey considers the mystique of barbecue sauces, the spectacle of barbecue contests, the global influences on American barbecue, the roles of race and gender in barbecue culture, and the many ways barbecue has been portrayed in our art and literature. It’s a spicy story that involves noted Americans from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama.
Download or read book CMJ New Music Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-09-13 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.
Download or read book Denzel s Lips written by Anita Doreen Diggs and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Hercsville, Long Island, where four women find that temptation has its price. Asha Mitchell Seabrook's husband may be rich, but he can't seem to satisfy her insatiable appetite for money - or sex. Dr Penelope Brewster is a successful psychologist who tries to keep the children of Hercsville's power elite out of trouble, while battling her own demons. Glamorous soap actress Nancy St Bart is nursing some dangerous obsessions and Denzel is just one of them. Shareeka Ellison's millionaire husband, though, might just destroy everything...
Download or read book Dust Grooves written by Eilon Paz and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.
Download or read book A Texas Crossroads Bar Grill written by Trish Butte Varner and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I own a small town bar and grill in the heart of Nowhere, Texas. My name is Mac McIntyre. My bar and I play host to the numerous characters passing through. First there's Hank, a well-known country and western star, who employs Jerry, a highly skilled and just as highly paid chauffeur. I've always wondered why a chauffeur would study Zen philosophy and every form of martial arts, but then again, I guess it's none of my business. Then there's Hank's sister, Sam, who just moved in, much to the disdain of Noreen, the resident air-head with a knack for sleeping around and hating girls prettier than her. Of course, I have no complaints against Sam, I owed Hank one. Besides, it's been a while and I needed a new waitress anyway, not that I'm trying anything. And Juan, the young boy living just over the border, can't be here every day to help. His English isn't even that great. Then there are the rest of the residents of my bar here at the crossroads, all just trying to enjoy a drink without having to kill each other, or maybe just Noreen, first. I've already been to Vietnam. I don't want to fight in any other wars. Author Bio: I was born in West Palm Beach in the same hospital six years after Burt Reynolds. Raised in Miami until I was 18, I then relocated to Cape Canaveral in '61-62. I studied engineering, but became an entertainer during the folk music craze. I don't know how, but the Original Seven astronauts sort of adopted me and before I knew it, I was an entertainer for the next 25 years. No matter where I was singing, my boss would receive a call from one of the astronauts to let me off long enough to be booked into the Cocoa Beach Ramada Inn lounge, where I appeared for every flight from Mercury through the last Apollo mission. I've lived in Los Angeles for almost 20 years, while on the road most of that time, and played in clubs from San Diego to Prince Albert, Sask. Canada (in the dead of winter, I might add.) I've been married 27 years and now reside in my husband's hometown of Jackson, Ms. keywords: Ghost Town, Saloon, Old West Opera House, Harley Davidson, Mystery, Love Story Texas, Dallas, Country Entertainer, Country Music
Download or read book CMJ New Music Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-08-30 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.
Download or read book CMJ New Music Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-09-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.
Download or read book The Other Americans written by Laila Lalami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST*** Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction Finalist for the California Book Award Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize A Los Angeles Times bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, The Guardian, Variety, and Kirkus Reviews Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraoui—father, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrant—is hit and killed by a speeding car. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer returning to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; her mother, Maryam, who still pines for her life in the old country; Efraín, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora’s and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son’s secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself. As the characters—deeply divided by race, religion, and class—tell their stories, each in their own voice, connections among them emerge. Driss’s family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love—messy and unpredictable—is born. Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
Download or read book Fire Boll to the Moon written by Yuriy Skoverko and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is fiction proposal. In early age, he is chosen to be the joker in Ukrainian circus. As he got older, he was introduced to the heir secrets that the country has. At his young age, he received a gift after meeting with Big Jon. The motor had challengers to jokers, one about to be dropped in the Fan Shaft, the other is apprentice in the power fate. Finally he grows up, living in USA, staying popular omens his fronds the Russian Chamber. He won a lottery ticket, making him very rich. He chased his dreams until he went back to his country, becoming a living legend. The circus finds him, letting him understand thats the only time for saving the country to rays for the beast of the world, new joker makes a design of to Ducatis, going in to the earth scariest raises, staying lake, for the beast his promoted fast to the rays of the life time to the moon to protect what meters the most. Finally resaving magic powers setting his dream in the cores of his dreams he finally becomes the ultimate joker of the circus. Many victories many dying moments only he gets trod setting new baleens for the Ukraine the country he rays for. Merit living the bilinear life he stayed on top of the underworld. Saving more secrets at his position.
Download or read book Emma Who Saved My Life written by Wilton Barnhardt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gil Freeman, a midwestern aspiring actor, comes to the city in search of stardombut instead encounters the perils of Alphabet City, the desperation of off-off-off-Broadway theater...and the exhilarating, exasperating, absolutely unique Emma, around whom his life comes to turn.
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Download or read book Strange Jazz written by Steve Hermanos and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-01-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From plucking antique furniture from abandoned rural Kansas homes, to exploring the wild underbelly of New York, narrator Jack Pierce describes the decline of his hometown and the kaleidoscopic New York he's privy to as a music critic. Jack is troubled by the rising tension between his two younger brothers: Benji -- a quintessential Wall Street Yuppie bent on becoming the next Donald Trump -- and Archie -- an idealistic intern at the New York Times. Archie and Benji clash after the Tompkins Square Riots, when Archie turns Benji's largest building into a shelter for homeless people. When Benji finds out, he takes matters into his own hands. Jack tries to mediate, only to be kidnapped by a female Coca-Cola-addicted drug lord who develops a crush on Jack. Jazz, poetry, the wheat fields of Kansas, the colorful cast of characters from their dying home town, the edgiest and most beautiful New Yorkers, all are notes and chords in this wonderful symphony of a novel.
Download or read book Immortal Words written by Berenice Chavez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarlett Lutz decided to study in London. She expected Europe's customs different from her American ones to be her only worries. But little did she know she was stepping into an entirely different world. Sean Wenham swore to never fall in love with a girl. He was doing perfectly fine until his dead mother showed up and told him to save the only girl he eventually becomes susceptible to. Join Scarlett as she stumbles into the world of the Forsaken--the half angel-half demon breed--and makes new friends she then has to scrutinize closely to make sure one of them is not the cause of the evil lurking around.
Download or read book The Tie Is A Lie written by and published by Angelique Lionheart. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman teletransports to another dimension where her innate supernatural powers are ignited. She joins a secret society, with other supernatural beings, that are fighting off dominating forces from the world she came from. Have you ever wondered who those people are in your dreams that you do not know?THE TIE IS A LIE begins with the present day then flashes back and forth between the 1970s and the present. It takes place in Dreamtime and New Order Time, (N.O.T.), which are multi-dimensional worlds that exist simultaneously and are used interchangeably by those who can travel between the two; that co-exist in various places around the globe. An order was given in N.O.T. to destroy the environment and wild life motivated by a need for power to globalize and dictate the natural world including humans and immortals with special abilities. They are challenged by Awen, a secret society in Dreamtime, designed to eliminate powerful forces in N.O.T. and prevent them from colonizing Dreamtime. Vampires and shape-shifters, with extra special skills live with other humans and immortals in both worlds. Kino is an ancient Italian Vampire with advanced telekinetic powers and is a descendant from bloodlines of medicine men and Druid magic. He is honored yet feels cursed by his legacy to protect Dreamtime from the powerful forces that had taken parts of Dreamtime in the past and killed his mother and father. Executed with his cunning, methodical and merciless tactics he reclaimed what was taken from Dreamtime before. Meghan is his heart's desire but he must let go of a promise he made in order to love her completely. Meghan has been traveling to Dreamtime in her dreams where her latent powers ignited and have since been refined; she can literally write or draw her self to anywhere and eventually adds shape-shifting to her repertoire and becomes a spy and huntress of wildlife poachers. A deluge into Kino's world threatens its existence and the very thing that keeps his power strong which is Meghan. He was forewarned that if love broke his heart, it would weaken his powers; although faith and free will could set him free and release a promise he can no longer keep. Will the powerful individuals within Awen along with Kino and Meghan's power and love together be enough to sustain their future?
Download or read book The Negro Motorist Green Book written by Victor H. Green and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-04-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
