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The Pitch Tavern is back on the mound (and on Georgia Avenue!) — Petworth News
by Kenji Jasper With less than 50 minutes before opening, the energy inside The Pitch Tavern is electric. Nas’s Magic 3 thumps through the sound system behind the mirrored bar with black framing. A bearded man in the rear talks on the phone while examining the walk-in refrigerator, and co-owner/manager Dwane Reid is wiping down the bar. “Our family is West Indian: Guyanese and Trinidadian.
Home is where the beats are: HR Records — Petworth News
by Kenji Jasper “There’s a hustle to selling records,” says Charvis Campbell, co-owner of HR Records on Kennedy Street NW. “People treat their records like their children. Once you sell that $250 Eric Dolphy record it’s gone. You might get 20 reissues in, but they’re never going to sell for what that first printing did.” Campbell first hooked up with his now business partner, Michael Bernstein, a decade ago when he was getting married. “Mike came to my house to buy some records.
Enter to Win an Afrofuturism Book Bundle Featuring Octavia Butler
Sweepstakes: Enter to Win a Powerful Afrofuturism Book Bundle! Take home transformative works from Octavia Butler, Damian Duffy and John Jennings, and Kenji Jasper. By The Portalist Staff | Published Feb 8, 2021 Enter your email address to win! Parable of the Sower By Octavia E. Butler Parable of the Talents By Octavia E. Butler Nostrand Ave. By Kenji Jasper Kindred By Octavia E. Butler Parable of the Sower Graphic Novel By Octavia Butler, Damian Duffy, and John Jennings
Aaliyah at 40: Reminiscing On Baby Girl After A Random New York Run-In
The singer, who died in 2001, would've been 40 years old this year. I forgot that it was Aaliyah’s birthday yesterday. And when the radio told me that she would have been 40 this year, I realized just how much time had passed since the night I got that phone call in August of 2001, when two of my homeboys and I emptied a plastic bottle with a cheap label that said “Puerto Rican Rum” on it in the name of losing our “Baby Girl,” and then staggered across Bed-Stuy to make our way home.
We Like New Blood
Katie and Rincey talk about the Sharp Objects adaptation and celebrate women in translation month with some mystery books in translation. This episode is sponsored by Sadie by Courtney Summers from Macmillan Audio, Trust Me By Hank Phillippi Ryan and Tear Me Apart by J.T. Ellison. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcast here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. Dim Sum of All Fears by Vivien Chien
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