Bluebird Blues Festival September 22nd

The Bluebird Blues Festival is today, and it’s free. Hear the Legendary Orioles, Bobby Parker, Clarence Carter, Bobby Blue Bland, Darryl Davis,Yahzarah, the Phil Wiggins Trio, Little Bit A Blues, and The Jewels. Activities for the kids. and more.

20th Annual Bluebird Blues Festival
September 22, 2012 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Prince George’s Community College
301 Largo Road
Landover, MD 20774 (Map)

Event website.

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Potomac Casino: Snake Eyes

The deal for a huge casino 5 miles outside DC at Maryland’s National Harbor has gone sour. A state government working group advised against granting a license for the $800 million gambling joint on the banks of the Potomac in Prince Georges County. Five casinos have already been licensed by the state, and of them three are currently relieving customers of their cash.

National Harbor offers many advantages to a casino operation. It has water taxi service to Old Town Alexandria, a bunch of mediocre eateries and sufficient hotel rooms to accomodate high rollers and the hookers who love them. Casinos are 24/7 enterprises, and National Harbor’s Children Museum can provide daytime daycare for the kids of bored housewives busy gambling away the grocery money.

More:

“O’Malley slams delegates for backing out of casino deal,” Ben Giles, Washington Examiner

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Bluebird Blues Festival September 26th

There’s no website for Sunday’s free Bluebird Blues Festival, but Culturemob’s Michael Rugel provides a superb summary. Two stages, eight great acts including Clarence Carter, Phil Wiggins  & Rick Franklin, Charles “Big Daddy” Stallings, Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy, Warner Williams & Jay Summerour, and a Blues workshop with Dr. Barry Lee Pearson.  Kids’ activities and food, too.

18th Annual Bluebird Blues Festival
Sunday, September 26, 2010 12:30 PM – 6 PM
Prince George’s Community College
301 Largo Road
Landover, MD 20774 (Map)

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Exposure

Photographer Roy Lewis began his professional career in 1964 when Jet magazine published his photo of Thelonius Monk.  Mr. Lewis was with Jet and Ebony before leaving Chicago for Washington in the 1970s to work for the Afro-American Newspapers, the Washington Informer, and as a freelance photographer. 

Roy Lewis has captured images of the African-American experience for a half century, across the country and beyond. In 1974, when Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman in Zaire, Roy Lewis was there with a camera.  No wonder his current exhibit at Gallery 110 is called “Everywhere with Roy Lewis.”

Everywhere with Roy Lewis
Gallery 110, Gateway Arts Center
3901 Rhode Island Avenue Brentwood, MD. 20722 (map)
Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm & Thursday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Free. For more information call (301) 209-0592

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DC Government: What Snow?

While Federal offices and suburban schools will open two hours late today, DC Schools and government started on time. How do we know? The Mayor and School Chancellor proclaimed it.

The thousands of DC workers and students you saw stranded in snowbanks, huddled at bus stops, stuck in traffic, and crushed together on subway platforms are obviously products of your imagination. Many District Government employees live in “Ward 9,” suburban Prince Georges County, and can’t stroll in to work.

 

 

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Save the Kids and Horsies!

Only one thing can save Maryland’s education system and the futures of innocent children. Remarkably, the very same thing will save the state’s strategic Equine Industry — you know, racing, the track, the ponies, Sport of Kings And Guys Named Lefty.

The solution: License corporations to take money from Maryland’s poor, one quarter at a time, rake off half and give the rest to the state government. Slot machines are the only salvation for education and the impoverished owners of Thoroughbred horses.

Picture the Blues

Picture this: performance and backstage photographs of B. B. King, Bukka White, Eddie “Son” House, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Buddy Guy,Sam “Lightnin'” Hopkins, Arthur Crudup, Junior Wells, J.B. Hutto, and practically every other master of the Blues, taken from the 60s to the Millennium. 

The photographer: music authority Dick Waterman. See the photos yourself in the exhibit Between Midnight and Day at the new Govinda Gallery at National Harbor (189 Waterfront St. National Harbor, MD).

Wok n’ Roll Rebel

Mary Surratt: “You want rice with that?”

Today’s Washington Examiner reminds us that history is all around us. Scott McCabe interviews Laurie Verge, Director of Clinton, Maryland’s Surratt House Museum, which tells the story of Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt, convicted and executed as a conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

The Surratts ran a tavern and boardinghouse near her parent’s land, now part of Andrews Air Force Base. When her husband died, the Widow Surratt rented out the Clinton property, moved to the District of Columbia, and ran a boardinghouse at the family-owned building at what is today 604 H Street, NW, home of the Wok and Roll Restaurant.

Sad Facts of Accokeek

By now you have heard about the tragic accident Saturday morning on Route 210, Indian Head Highway, where a sedan struck 15 of the 50 spectators of an illegal road race, killing eight of them. Here is what you haven’t heard.

The point missed by the media so far: late-night illegal drag racers actually shut down public roads for the duration of races, blocking them with parked cars or flashlight-wielding conspirators. On a divided highway, like Route 210 at the point in question, it is not surprising that oncoming traffic suddenly confronted by such a roadblock would go up on the shoulder where we are told the accident victims, participating as spectators in the illegal racing event, were standing.

A Man Who Loves Children?

 

The Chief Operating Officer of the National Children’s Museum was arrested today on charges of distributing child pornography. Charges were filed in a federal court in New York City.

The executive, Robert A. Singer, of Falls Church, VA, is accused of using his computers at the museum offices and at home to transmit 80 images depicting sexual acts between minors and adults. He was arrested by Federal agents in a sting operation involving New York detectives.