Meanwhile, Back in Wisconsin: Madison’s Snuggle House Goes Out of Business Amid Fear…and Loathing
• December 11, 2013 • Comments Off on Meanwhile, Back in Wisconsin: Madison’s Snuggle House Goes Out of Business Amid Fear…and LoathingPosted in Class, Crime, Cultural History, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, Rape/Sex Crimes, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Associated Press, Boulder Colorado, Business, California, City of Madison, Common Sense, Constables on Patrol, Cuddle Party, Governor Walker, Healing Touch, Hurtado, Jennifer Zilavy, Lt. David McCaw, Madison, Madison WI, Masseur, Masseuse, Matthew Hurtado, Montgomery Alabama, New Age, Non-Sexual, Prostitution, Rochester New York, Samantha Hess, San Francisco, Sex, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Snuggle House, The Bay Area, The Midwest, The Snuggery, The Snuggle House, Touch Therapy, Wisconsin
Jack and Renée: The Swirl Enters John McCain’s Family
• June 4, 2013 • Comments Off on Jack and Renée: The Swirl Enters John McCain’s FamilyPosted in African American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Love, Race, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin, Women
Tags: 2008 GOP Presidential Nominee, 2008 Presidential Campaign, African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, California, California Academy of Sciences, Captain, Gov. Scott Walker, Grace Cathedral San Francisco, Guam, Interracial Couples, Interracial Love, Interracial Marriage, Jack McCain, John McCain, John McCain IV, Lieutenant, Love, Marriage, McCain, Meghan McCain, Mitt Romney, Navy, Reserves, San Francisco, Senator John McCain, The Eighties, The Swirl, Wedding, Wisconsin
Because Melissa Harris-Perry is That Good, Limbaugh and Palin Are Attacking Her
• April 10, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Democrats, Education, History, Melissa Harris-Perry, Mental Health/Psychology, MSNBC, Television, Women
Tags: China, Communists, Communities, Cultural Revolution, Fear, Fearmongering, Harris-Perry, It Takes a Village, Mao, Melissa Harris-Perry, MHP, MSNBC, Reds, Right Wing Loons, Right Wing Punditry, San Francisco, Sunday Pundit Shows, Tulane University
Rick Stevens and Tower of Power Reunite at Yoshi’s Oakland, Thursday, January 31, 2013
• February 2, 2013 • Comments Off on Rick Stevens and Tower of Power Reunite at Yoshi’s Oakland, Thursday, January 31, 2013Posted in Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, People of Color, Protestant Denominations, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Tower of Power
Tags: African Americans, Antioch, Blacks, California, Comeback, David Garibaldi, Drama, Drugs, Emilio Castillo, Francis "Rocco" Prestia, Funk Music, Joel Selvin, Larry Braggs, Latin Rock, Love, Michael Carabello, Murder, Music, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Chronicle, Santana, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sheila E., Stephen Kupka, Stevens, The Seventies, Tower, Tower of Power, United States, Yoshi's Oakland
Rick Stevens, Early Tower of Power Lead Singer, Appearing Thursday, January 24, at Concert for Autism Awareness in San Francisco (w/ Video Update)
• January 21, 2013 • Comments Off on Rick Stevens, Early Tower of Power Lead Singer, Appearing Thursday, January 24, at Concert for Autism Awareness in San Francisco (w/ Video Update)Posted in Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Education, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Music, People of Color, Protestant Denominations, Religion, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Tower of Power
Tags: Antioch, Autism, Autism Spectrum, Castillo, Donald Stevenson, Emilio Castillo, Latin Rock, Prison, Prison Release, Rick Stevens, San Francisco, San Jose Mercury News, Singer, Stevens, The Seventies, Thursday, Tower of Power, Voices of Latin Rock
In a Blink of an Eye: It’s Been Forty-Five Years Since Otis Redding’s “(Sitting On) The Dock of The Bay” Was Recorded
• January 9, 2013 • Comments Off on In a Blink of an Eye: It’s Been Forty-Five Years Since Otis Redding’s “(Sitting On) The Dock of The Bay” Was RecordedPosted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Love, Otis Redding, Suicide, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: "(Sitting On} The Dock of the Bay", 45th Anniversary, African Americans, Anniversary, Bay, Blacks, Death, Dock of the Bay, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Eric Clapton, Fillmore, Growing Up, Jimi Hendrix, Lake Monona, Madison, Madison WI, Monterey Pop Festival, Otis, Otis Redding, San Francisco, Steve Cropper, Summer of Love, The Bar Kays, The Mar-Kays, The Sixties, United States, Wisconsin
Those Posters from Facebook: Who They Really Are, What They Really Do
• February 20, 2012 • Comments Off on Those Posters from Facebook: Who They Really Are, What They Really DoPosted in American Politics, Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Democrats, Education, Facebook, Immigration, National Issues, People of Color, Race, The Economy
Tags: Advocacy Organizations, African Americans, Blacks, Divisiveness, Facebook, Faux Noise, Fox News Channel, Fox Noise, Human Rights, Human Rights and Liberties, Ignorance, Latinos, Mexican Americans, Ministry of Propaganda, Misunderstandings, Occupy The Hood, Occupy Wall Street, Perception, Posters, Propaganda, Racism, Reality, San Francisco, Self Image, Self-Worth, Shit, Shopping, Truth, Twitter, United States
Sending Etta James Home
• January 29, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in Uncategorized
Tags: "At Last", "Shelter in the Rain", "Tell Mama", "The Lord's Prayer", A Time to Love, African Americans, Al Sharpton, Artis Mills, Barack Obama, Billiards, Black Women, Blacks, California, Child Abuse, Children, Christina Aguilera, Common Sense, Donto James, Drama, Drugs, Etta James, First Lady, Growing Up, Harmonica, James, Janis Joplin, LGBT, Los Angeles, Lower Haight, Marriage, Memorial Service, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Sametto James, San Francisco, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Stevie, Stevie Wonder, Street Culture, Streets, The Creolettes, The Fillmore, The Harlem of the West, Tribute, United States
Meanwhile, Back in Madison, WI: The Murder of R Place on Park
• October 7, 2011 • Comments Off on Meanwhile, Back in Madison, WI: The Murder of R Place on ParkPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Discrimination, Drug Culture/Industry, Gang Violence, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Who I Am, Wisconsin
Tags: African Americans, ALRC, Annie Weatherby-Flowers, Blacks, Business, California, City Council, Constables on Patrol, Crime, Derrell Connor, Drugs, Fillmore District San Francisco, Funk, Gangbangers, Ignoble Wray, Improvisation, Jazz, Louisiana, Madison, Madison City Council, Madison WI, Madison Wisconsin, Madisonians, New Orleans, Noble Wray, R Place on Park, Racism, Rick Flowers, San Francisco, Shootings, Small Businessman, Soul Music, The Madison Police Department, The Sixties, Wisconsin
BOMBSHELL: SFPD Now Says Kenneth Harding Shot Himself to Death; Gun Retrieved Not Harding’s Gun
• July 22, 2011 • Comments Off on BOMBSHELL: SFPD Now Says Kenneth Harding Shot Himself to Death; Gun Retrieved Not Harding’s GunPosted in Black People, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Police Misconduct/Killings
Tags: Bayview-Hunters Point San Francisco, Caliber, Charlie Walker, Medical Examiner, Police, Police Department, San Francisco, San Francisco Municipal Railway, San Francisco Police Department, Seattle
Update on Kenneth Harding, Who Was Shot Saturday in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters’ Point District: The Guy Was a Convicted Pimp
• July 20, 2011 • 9 CommentsPosted in African American History, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Gang Violence, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: Advocacy, African Americans, Bay Area, Black Girls, Black Women, Blacks, California Public Records Act, Chief of Police, Child Abuse, Child Prostitute, Child Sexual Abuse, Dolores Park, George Gascón, Kenneth Harding, Market Streets, Mesha Irizarry, Murder, Paramedics, Pimp, Pimping, Police Killings, Racism, Rape, Rodney King, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Municipal Railway, San Francisco Police Department, Seattle, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Slavery, SFPD, Tanaya Gilbert, The Crime Scene, United States, Washington State, YouTube
Here We Go Again: San Francisco Cops Shoot Black Teenager Over A $2 Unpaid MUNI Bus Fare, BUT…
• July 18, 2011 • 8 CommentsPosted in Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Police Misconduct/Killings, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: BART Cops, BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant, Bayview-Hunters Point San Francisco, Black Males, Black Men, Black Teens, Black Youth, Buena Vista Park, Bus Fare, Constables on Patrol, Cops, Death by Cops, KTVU, MUNI, Police, Pregnant, Racism, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Municipal Railway, San Francisco Police Department, Seattle WA, Tanaya Gilbert, Washington, YouTube
A Big One Hit Japan (w/Updates)
• March 11, 2011 • 4 CommentsPosted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Class, Japan, Natural Disasters, People of Color, The Mainstream Media (MSM), World History
Tags: 1998 Winter Olympics, 8.9, Asia, California, Canada, Crescent City California, Earthquake, English Language, Hawaii, Japan, Japan Earthquake, Japanese, Japanese Language, Japanese People, Left Coast, Live Streaming, Los Angeles, Nagano, New Guinea, New Zealand, PC World, Richter Scale, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Sendai, Soka Gakkai Japan, The Philippines, Tokyo, Tsunami Warning System, Tsunami Warnings, Tsunamis, United States, West Coast, West Coast of the United States
You “Quiero” Taco Bell Now?
• January 26, 2011 • Comments Off on You “Quiero” Taco Bell Now?Posted in Barack and Michelle Obama, Cultural History, Food, Health, Love, Memoir
Tags: African Americans, Beef, Blacks, Chicken McNuggets, Fake Food, Fast Food, Garlic, Growing Up, Homemade Fast Food, Ingredients, Meat Truck, Onion, PepsiCo, Redevelopment, San Francisco, Soy Products, Steve Raichlen, Taco Bell, The Fillmore, The Sixties, United States Department of Agriculture, What's In It?, Yeast Extract
Well, I’m Not a Packer Fan, But I’m Rooting for Them
• January 23, 2011 • Comments Off on Well, I’m Not a Packer Fan, But I’m Rooting for ThemPosted in Barack and Michelle Obama, Brett Favre, Class, Sports, Television, The Green Bay Packers, The San Francisco 49ers, The Super Bowl, Wisconsin
Tags: 'Niners, Aaron Rodgers, Badger State, Badgers, Bears, Brett Favre, Butte County, Championship Game, Cheeseheads, Chicago Bears, Chico California, Football, Forty Niner Faithful, Green Bay Packers, Green Bay WI, Herb Caen, Mad City, Madison WI, Market Street, Morabito Family, National Football League, President Barack Obama, Rose Bowl, San Francisco, San Francisco 49ers, Sweetness, Texas Christian University, UW, UW-Madison, Velveeta, Velveeta Cheese, Walter Payton, Wisconsin
Christmas Songs: “Christmas Time Is Here,” from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”
• December 21, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Education, Film, Holidays, Love, Music, Public Intellectualism, Spirituality, Television
Tags: "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", A Charlie Brown Christmas, Burl Ives, Charlie Brown, Children, Christmas, Christmas Songs, Growing Up, Lee Mendelson, Linus, Linus and Lucy, Linus and Lucy Van Pelt, Linus Van Pelt, Love, Peanuts, Popular Culture, San Francisco, Skating Rink, The Sixties, Vince Guaraldi, Winter
The Beaver’s Mom, Barbara Billingsley, Dies at 94
• October 16, 2010 • Comments Off on The Beaver’s Mom, Barbara Billingsley, Dies at 94Posted in Acting, American History, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Fashion, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Airplane", "Leave It to Beaver", "Ward, Barbara Billingsley, Eddie Haskell, Embarrassment, Fred Rutherford, Hollywood, Hugh Beaumont, I'm Worried About the Beaver", I. Magnin, I. Magnin's, Jerry Mathers, Jive, June Cleaver, Los Angeles Times, Lumpy, Memoir, Middle Class White America, Mom, Mother, Pearls, Pre-Feminism, San Francisco, Santa Monica California, Shame, Sherman Billingsley, Suburbia, The Beaver, The Fifties, The Middle Class, The Stork Club, Theodore Cleaver, Tony Dow, United States, Wally Cleaver, Ward Cleaver, White American Boyhood, White Suburbia, Wikipedia
UPDATE: Bishop Eddie Long Rumored To Be Stepping Down After Those Muscle Shots and A Fourth Litigant Surface
• September 24, 2010 • 10 CommentsPosted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Mental Health/Psychology, Protestant Denominations, Rape/Sex Crimes, Religion, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Kingdom Relationships", "Spiritual Sons", "Traditional Family Values", Abs, Age of Consent, ATL, Atlanta, Atlanta GA, B.J. Bernstein, Bisexual, Bishop Earl Paulk, Bishop Eddie Long, Bishop Long, Black Gays, Bossip, Built, Charlotte NC, Child Molestation, Civil Suits, Conservative, Cut, Dating, Evangelical Christians, Gay, Gay Romeo, Gays, George Alan Rekers, Georgia, Heterosexual, Homophobe, Homophobia, Homophobia in the Black Church, Homophobia in the Black Community, Homosexuality, Jail, Jasmyne Cannick, Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Karma, Keith Boykin, Kenya, Lavalife, Lesbians, LGBT, Long Fellows Youth Academy, Married Clergy, Match.com, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, North Carolina, Parishioners, Professionalism, Republican, Rigid, San Francisco, Scripture, Sex, Sex Predator, Sexual Invitation, Sexual Relationship, Six Pack, Spencer LeGrande, Ted Haggard, The Bible, The Down Low, The Downlow, The Nineties, Tight, Traditional, Trinity Foundation, Yahoo Dating, Youth Ministers
Peter Fernandez, the English Voice of the Original Speed Racer and His Brother Racer X, Passes
• July 15, 2010 • Comments Off on Peter Fernandez, the English Voice of the Original Speed Racer and His Brother Racer X, PassesPosted in Acting, Anime Cartoons, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Fiction Writing, Film, Japan, Memoir, Sports, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Astro Boy", "City Across the River", "Courage the Cowardly Dog", "Mr. District Attorney", "Speed Racer", Actor, Anime, Broadway, Cartoon, Channel 44, Children, Chim-Chim, Corinne Orr, Director, Drama, Growing Up, Hollywood, Japan, Japanese, KBHK TV, NBC, Peter Fernandez, Pops Racer, Pulp Fiction, Radio, Rex Racer, San Francisco, Sprytle, The Galaxy Rangers, The Seventies, The Sixties, Trixie, Voice, Voice Actor, Voice Overs, Voices, Writer
Bobby McFerrin is Back
• March 17, 2010 • Comments Off on Bobby McFerrin is BackPosted in Black People, Bobby McFerrin, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Documentary, Film, Germany, Love, Music, Music Videos, Race, Spirituality, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom
Tags: "The Power of the Pentatonic Scale", African Americans, Blacks, Bobby McFerrin, Britain, Cabaret, California, Choral Blend, Germany, Janis Siegel, Jazz, Jr., Linda Goldstein, Lisa Fischer, Luciana Souza, Musical Collaboration, New Album, Opera, Performance Art, R&B, Robert McFerrin, Rock, San Francisco, The Barbican, The Masonic Center, Touring, Tribal Chants, UK, VOCAbuLarieS, Voices, Voicestra, World Science Festival
UPDATE: Only in Mad City: Why There Are So Few Black Bars and Entertainment in Town?
• October 21, 2009 • 3 CommentsPosted in Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Drug Culture/Industry, Gang Violence, Gentrification, History, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: African American, Antisocial Behavior, Beld Street, Black Bars, Black Businesses, Black People, Blacks, California, Chicago IL, Clientele, Crime, DJs, Drug Dealing, Drugs, Fillmore Street, Gang Violence, Gangbangers, Guns, Hallowe'en Night, Kenosha, Kevin McGettigan, Madison, Madison WI, Madison Wisconsin, Maple Bluff, Maria Brown, Milwaukee, Native American, New Orleans, NIMBY, North Sherman Avenue, Not in My Back Yard, Park Street, Poverty, Priorities, R Place on Park, Racine, Sacramento, San Francisco, Schools, State Street, Stockton, The Capitol Times, The Madison Police Department, The Western Addition, Third Street, Tracy, WI, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Governor's Mansion, Wisconsin State Journal
The Sedona, AZ Sweat Lodge Tragedy: Why It Shouldn’t Have Happened
• October 12, 2009 • 9 CommentsPosted in Black People, Class, Education, Health, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, New Orleans, People of Color, Race, Religion, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "Spiritual Warrior", Abenaki, Africa, Africans, Ancestors, Angel Valley, Anger, Arizona, Asia, Asian American, Baron Samedi, Cow Hollow, Culture, Curios, Erzulie, Eucalyptus, Fasting, François Duvalier, French Quarter, George Harrison, Haiti, Haitians, Idols, Incense, James Arthur Ray, Joseph Bruchac, La Vieux Carre, Latino American, Legba, Loko Atison, Marie Laveau, Masks, Melanesia, Micronesia, Native American, Neighborhoods, New Age, New Orleans, Nichiren Buddhism, Noe Valley, Oshun, Pine Tar, Religion, Rituals, San Francisco, Sauna, Scandinavia, Sedona, Sioux, Sweat Lodge, The French Quarter, The Voodoo Museum, Turtle Island, Union Street, United States, Voudou, Voudou Flags, Yavapai County
Justice Sotomayor Sworn In
• August 8, 2009 • 3 CommentsPosted in American Politics, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, History, Obama Administration, People of Color, Race, Sonia Sotomayor, Women
Tags: "Wise Latina", Barack Obama, Blacks, Congress, Democrats, East Palo Alto, East Side San Jose, Florida, GOP, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Latinos, Mel Martinez, New York, Racialist Politics, Racism, Republican Party, Republicans, Reverse Discrimination, San Francisco, Sonia Sotomayor, The Potomac, The Supreme Court, Whites
“Agent of Change”? Harvey Milk To Be Given Posthumous Medal of Freedom
• July 30, 2009 • 1 CommentPosted in American Politics, Black People, Education, History, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Obama Administration, People of Color, Sexuality
Tags: 18th and Castro, African Americans, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Blacks, DADT, Dan White, don't tell", Ex-Clintonistas, Gays, Guyana, Harvey Milk, Homophobia, Jonestown, Lesbians, LGBT, Mayor George Moscone, Phoniness, President Barack Obama, San Francisco, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Supervisor Harvey Milk, The Castro District, The Seventies, The Sixties
Friday Night Music, June 19: The White Queen of Soul, Dusty Springfield, “The Look of Love”
• June 19, 2009 • 1 CommentPosted in Celebrities/Royals, Dusty Springfield, Film, Memoir, Music, Sexuality
Tags: "Casino Royale", "Dusty in Memphis", "I Only Want to Be with You", "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", Black Fillmore, Boob Tube, Burt Bacharach, California, Dusty Springfield, Geary Street, Hal David, Ian Fleming, Ike and Tina Turner, James Bond, Marilyn Monroe, MUNI, Orchestrations, S.F. Muni Railway, San Francisco, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Sex, The British Invasion, The Fillmore, The Four Seasons, The Oscars, The S.F. Municipal Railway
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