Category: Projects

Steps of PittsburghExplore Pittsburgh’s Many Steps & Staircases By Albrecht Powell, About.com Guide (pittsburgh.about.com/od/about_pittsburgh/a/steps.htm) While located at the point of three intersecting rivers, the city of Pittsburgh is also uniquely surrounded by hills – and lots of them. The city, in the words of newspaper […]

Busboys and Poets is a community gathering place. First established in 2005 Busboys and Poets was created by owner Anas “Andy” Shallal, an Iraqi-American artist, activist and restaurateur. After opening, the flagship location at 14th and V Streets, NW (Washington DC), the neighboring residents and […]

We were so elated to find out we were big winners at the LA Web Fest. I treat project like a proof of life. I have to go out, pretty much every day and explore everything around me and this is the result of that […]

Paige Hernandez-Funn is one of the most talented people I have ever met. She is a renaissance woman of the highest degree. While she was at the studio doing a recordings for The Angle, I thought it might be nice to deliver a poem and […]

Spent a few days in Pittsburgh with a production partner and we filmed a whole lot of wonder folks. Spending a few hours with Vanessa German seemed like the culminating production of that journey. She is an amazing creative and multidisciplinary originally from California who […]

In the early 1800’s Rose Nicaud became the first known coffee vendor in New Orleans. Rose, a slave, saw the opportunity to provide a service to French Market vendors, workers and shoppers by providing them with fresh, hot coffee. Rose created a portable cart which […]

Carolyn Matachi stopped by the studio in 2010 and delivered several spoken-word pieces.

It was such a surprise to meet a young’ from Andre and my neck of the woods while filming in Nola. Shannon is a bright young lady attending Loyola University, where we were filming a series of interviews, performances and just people talking. She brought […]

My friend Raquel is a writer, poet and performer of the highest order. So with that I asked her stop by the studio and perform one of her pieces for my web series, The Angle. The poem is titled “I Am”.

Reuben Jackson was born in Augusta, Georgia and grew up in Washington, DC. A music scholar and critic of national reputation, he was archivist and curator with the Smithsonian’s Duke Ellington Collection from 1989 to 2009; his music reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, Washington City […]