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...honored twice with Grammy Award nominations for Best Album Liner Notes in 2001 for “Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words of the Harlem Renaissance,” and in 2000 for “Yes I Can: The Sammy Davis, Jr. Story...
...insomniacs who have enjoyed a little post-SNL “It’s Showtime at the Apollo,” this one’s for you. Based on the show originating in Harlem, N.Y., Apollo Night offers student performances that run the full entertainment gamut from song to dance to comedy. The talent show competition will be almost entirely judged by the audience, so remember your two-finger golf claps. The Black Students Association host and will donate all the proceeds to charity. Tickets $8, BSA members $5. 8 p.m. Lowell Lecture Hall...
...live in the Drew Hamilton Houses in Harlem, you learn to mind your own business. The run-down brick towers and surrounding streets are plagued with crime. Meddle in someone else's affairs and you never know what might happen. So when Valerie Tompkins opened her windows one day last summer and breathed in the foul stench of urine, she was not inclined to investigate. She knew that her upstairs neighbor, Antoine Yates, 37, kept exotic pets, but why ask for trouble? She just closed the window again. Darryl Carter, whose girlfriend lives down the hall from Yates, knew about...
Davis was born in 1925 in Harlem, the child of a chorus girl and a hardened vaudeville hoofer; that would be Sammy Davis Sr. Sr. took Jr. along on tour, and one afternoon little Sammy wandered onstage during a gig. Disaster loomed--but the audience laughed. A star was born. Davis...
...Yorker is attacked by the tiger he keeps as a pet in his Harlem apartment. Animal trainer and illusionist Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy is mauled onstage. Back in 1981 in a cover story CATS: LOVE 'EM! HATE 'EM! TIME warned that these furry felines may look placid but are hardly tame...