Month of May, 2008
Blurt!
As reported by Jason Gross at PopMatters, Blurt Magazine online will take the place of the recently finished Harp Magazine. That certainly good news, and well-reported feature writing online is certainly welcome to the party!
Skope RIP
This just in from the GirlGroup list - Skope Magazine is closing its print edition:
Dear Subscriber, I know that many of you are shocked at the news of Skope Magazine closing up the print edition. We appreciate all the emails & phone calls of support & luv. It means so much! We just wanted to let you know that we will continue on with Skopemag.com & Skope Live! Skopemag.com currently receives over 1 million hits/month & over 80K visits/month. Content on the site is updated hourly and the site offers a full
Bert Williams - A Silent Theater Speaking
Camille Forbes's new book on early black pop musician/actor/comedian Bert Williams is finally out on the stands, and today MoMA did a showing of Williams films to go with the book (and Feb. MoMA talk). The three films, Fish, A Natural Born Gambler, and fragments of a third romantic narrative were in amazing high quality - so much so that it was eerie to watch them, as Williams appears in blackface in all three (as he always did, even when everyone else in the film is not in blackface) but the resolution was such that the films could have been from some much more recent past.