| DANNY HOCH IS A HIP HOP IDEALIST
Along with being a playwright, an actor, and a director, Danny Hoch is a hip hop idealist. “I kinda feel about it [hip hop] the same way I |
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GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME YA’LL: MAX ROACH
Regarding “Percussion Discussion”, dialogue is unnecessary when giving the drummer, Max Roach some. Activist, architect of percussive sound and sentiment, jazz composer and educator, Roach, created a place |
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Watt's Up at the CAAM
Created and nurtured by numerous luminaries, the dichotomies of Negro/Black music lie in two camps from the latter part of the last century: Motown, representing the Motor City |
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Harris in Atlanta
We've noted that the collage form--nothing new in the history of black visual culture--has in the past several years staged a resurgence on the international scene. And we |
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BAM got (Afro)Punked!
Summer in New York City is when the sensory rages and reigns, and BAM serves samples of punk, progress, and sci-fi at the third annual Afro-Punk Festival. Through |
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Suzan-Lori Parks Center Stage
De La Soul and the Schoolhouse Rock crew knew exactly what they were talking about; three is indeed the magic number, but you don't have to take Code |
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Mixtape
Not that anyone can really do it, but we try to keep up with the global meanderings of DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, and though he has turned |
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Sweat It Out
Sweat: to manipulate or produce by hard work or drudgery, or to excrete moisture in visible quantities through the openings of the sweat glands. Or perhaps, the process, |
| Step in the Name of Love
Although we doubt the King of R&B will grace the place, Sharon Bridgforth, an award-winning performance artist and writer, invites Austin massive to Sexy Sundays, to step in |
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How Can You Measure a Year?
A play a day keeps the creativity at play. And with no pun intended, Code Z rarely doubles back, but we were forced to return to 2002 and |
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Ascension: Alice Coltrane's Gospel
The Code Z family deems it imperative to pause for the cause to remember Alice Coltrane, jazz harpist, pianist, tamboura player, spiritual leader, and widow of bebop jazz |
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Eye & I
Since the days of the zip-coon, to the hardcore thug of present day, stereotypes continue to affect how we see and are seen--especially at a young age. And |
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If I Had a Dime for Every…
Opening this week at the Joyce Theatre, Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company opens their 2007 dance season with the New York premiere of two exciting works--the first installment of |
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Manhattan Transfer
We at Code Z had always wanted to peek in on the world of journalists and educators from time to time, so we couldn't resist covering the second |
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Fly By Theater
Leave it to the playwright with some of the most rousing titles--Fucking A, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World and Imperceptible Mutabilities-- |
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Poets House
"We're live from the Nuyorican Poets Café" are the famous words of Puerto Rican poet, educator, writer, and co-founder Miguel Algarín. Credited for offering a creative platform for |
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Black Box
As we sifted through New York's off-off-Broadway shows, we stumbled upon Jake Hooker's Pot-au-Noir at the Chocolate Factory Theater. Pot-au-Noir, or The Black Hole, is a modern remix |
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Make Some Noise
Speaking of Nigeria, there are those who by the mere mentioning of their name elicit wild responses. Crazy, genius, pioneer: Fela. This year, on World AIDS Day (December |
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Slam the Louvre
Quick, what do you think of when we say "Le musée du Louvre," or simply The Louvre, as the French-challenged among us call it? A few things usually |
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Mixed Media
We love it when we can address the interests of a number of readers with a single article. To wit, the Pangea World Theater in Minneapolis, USA is |
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A Family Affair
Though it feels much older, Cave Canem (CC) celebrated its 10th anniversary this past weekend. Founded in 1996 by poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, CC has become |
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Who the Cap Fit?
The moving memoir play, Who Killed Bob Marley? is now in full production at the new Gate House performance space in Harlem. The one-man play, conceived and written |
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Back in Da Day
Brian Hebert of the Fulton County Arts Council in Atlanta, Georgia says that the years '86 to '88 constitute two years; we say that's three years. We'll have |
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Peachy
Okay, so we let the cat out of the bag a few weeks back when we told you that Charles Huntley Nelson was one of the artists chosen |
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Sewn Up
We first caught wind of Kimberly Glennon when some photographs of her striking costume and makeup work for the Classical Theatre of Harlem's production of Macbeth showed up |
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Kat's Meow
Go ahead. Click on the thumbnails. And make sure someone happens to be walking by when you do it. It'll make you look cool. Vonetta Jenkins is a |
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To the Windows! To the Walls!
I can't believe we forgot to note Chicago's African Festival of the Arts on September 1st through 4th in Washington Park! We're just glad George Clinton and |
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The Return of Sex Choc
So I thought we would write a post about hip-hop expressionist painter Fahamu Pecou's new ventures in music production, but along the way we unpacked more than we |
