by Toni McNaron | Nov 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
A friend just sent me an article about Janis Joplin because a new biography is just out about her. She was a blazing comet on the rock music scene in the 1960’s, but, like all comets, vanished too quickly to be taken in fully. The new biography talks about how...
by Toni McNaron | Oct 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
If “Carla Hayden” is not a household name, I understand. And, if you don’t know a lot about our Librarian of Congress, I understand that as well. But in these days of dangerous mayhem and destructive hate speech, Ms. Hayden and her title give me...
by Toni McNaron | Oct 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
This past week, TV stations across the country showed us an amazing scene: Brandt Jean, the 18 year old brother of Both Jean who was shot and killed by a white female police person who went home to the wrong apartment after her night shift was over, asked the trial...
by Toni McNaron | Sep 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
There aren’t many in this country, but I’ve been deciding to enter as many as I can. A couple of years ago I accepted an invitation from a good friend to travel to Washington D.C. to visit the Museum of African American History and Culture and the...
by Toni McNaron | Aug 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
In 2004, Richard Eyre directed the movie, “Stage Beauty,” written by Jeffrey Hatcher and starring Billy Cudrup and Claire Danes. Recently I watched this amazingly beautiful and haunting movie for the third time. A good friend who’d never seen it...
