A Guide to African-American Culture
JULY 1-7, 1991 (212) 627-5241 VOL. I NO. 6
LISTINGS INSIDE: ART • CABARETS • CONCERTS • DANCE DINING • FREE-FOR-ALL • THEATER
PUTTING IT ANOTHER WAY
ee Leagiton, president of L. Cee Enterprises and his wife and vice- L president, Connie Rose-Leagiton, have certainly not “advanced upon an appendage”* with their new game: Paraphrase…put another way. They have rather “struck the spike on the noggin”.* Paraphrase... is a unique and exciting word game that challenges players to recognize cleverly reworded phrases, cliches and other idiomatic expressions. (Read below to see how well you recognized the two Connie Rose-Leagiton & Lee Leagiton “paraphrases” in the preceding paragraph.) According to Connie and Lee, the seeds from which Paraphrase... sprung were planted during a “long and boring, seven hour drive from New Jersey to Virginia. It was spontaneous and fun...just something to break the monotony.” But long after the Leagiton’s returned home, they found themselves still playing this game they'd made up on the road, "It was almost obsessive. We played it all the time. When we were alone...when we had friends over...” One night while relaxing in bed, it struck them: maybe what they had come up with was a valid, viable and marketable game idea. Why wouldn’t others have as much fun with their paraphrase game as they and their friends were having? Months of research and plain, hard work followed. Finally, about a year ago, after several versions and refinements Paraphrase...put another way was born. In addition to providing hours of good, old fashioned— sometimes boisterous—fun for families and friends. Paraphrase... also provides a vigorous cerebral workout and exercise of one’s English language skills.
* gone out on a limb/hit the nail on the head Paraphrase... is much more than parlor fun. And the Leagitons, quick to recognize the game's inherent value as an educational and language arts tool, have included the educational community in their marketing efforts. As a result, Paraphrase... has already stirred interest among secondary and college level educators; and fraternal and sororal organizations. Much of Connie and Lee's marketing activities have thus far been concentrated in the Central New Jersey and Baltimore areas. However, they will be introducing the competitively priced word game to retail and wholesale buyers in the New York community, June 28 through July 1, at Black Expo USA. the Javitz Center, New York City. L. Cee Enterprises also markets the game through direct sales, the Paraphrase House Party Plan and selected retail outlets. Address inquiries to: L. Cee Enterprises, 500 Auten Road, Somerville, New Jersey 08876. Telephone (908) 874-4510. —Toni Roberts
How good are you putting it another way? Answers Fish out of water of out Fish
1. Obese opportunity 10. Kangaroo court Kangaroo
2. 24 hours late and 100 cents unpaid 9. Walk on air on Walk
3. Wager in your weejuns 8. Whole hog Whole
4. Ill and weary 7. All over but the shouting the but over All
5. A Tootsie in the tomb 6. One foot in the grave the in foot One
6. Complete except for the cheers 5. Sick and tired and Sick
7. The entire pig 4. Bet your boots your Bet
8. Struck on the O-Zone 3. Day Late and a dollar short dollar a and Late Day
9. Marsupial tribunal 2. Fat Chance Fat
10. Trout on the beach 1.
LISTINGS
CABARETS Louis Hayes Quintet The Hank Crawford Quartet July 2-7 July 2-7 Eddie Palmieri Band & Condon’s, 117 E. 15th St. Fat Tuesday's 190 3rd Ave. Hilton Ruiz Trio 254-0960 17th St. 533-7902 July 2-7, 9 & 11pm The Iguanas Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Blue Note 131 W 3rd St. July 2 475-8592 The Decoding Society Preston Smith Every Monday Pete, Malenverni, piano July 5 Knitting Factory 47 East Ralph, Lalama, sax Houston St. 219-3055 Vernel Fournier, drums Delta 88 332 8th Ave. /26th Robert Hurst, bass St. 924-3499 Carol Woods Remembers Bradley's University Place/ Pearl Bailey 11th St. 228-6440 Through July 6
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!2—ROUTES, A Guide to African-American Culture, July 1-7 1991 Michael's Pub 211 E. 55th St. Honeysuckle Wilson's Restaurant & 758-2272 Southern cuisine Bakery Southern cuisine • Jean Carne Trendy July 4-6 507 Columbus Ave. A Harlem institution • Chitlin’ Circuit R & B Columbus Avenue 496-8095 1980 Amsterdam Ave. /145th Musical Review Jamaican Hot Pot St. 923-9821 Saturdays, 3pm Zeet Peabody Sugar Reef David Jennings, Mable Restaurant of 7-8 tables West Indian cuisine Lee, Dennis Legree, inside and 3 outside—but Boncella Lewis,Tunde has a large reputation for 93 2nd Ave. 47-SUGAR Samuel, Jan Mickens good food at bargain prices. •Brooklyn• Sweetwater’s 170 2060 Adam Clayton Powell, Amsterdam Ave./ 68th St. Junior boulevard/133rd St. McDonald's Dining Room 873-4100 491-5270 Country home cooking - Tues- The Main Ingredient Jerk Paradise Sun. July 2-6 Jamaican cuisine, Jerk preparation of meats. 327 Stuyvesant Ave.(718) The Ballroom 253 W. 28th St. 574-3728 244-3005 252 W. 29th St. 268-7020 Wynton Marsalis Septet Jezebel •Queens• Southern/American cuisine July 2-7 La Detente Village Vanguard 178 7th Scarfs, swings and Continental and Caribbean Ave. S. 255-4037 sophistication. cuisines Ebony Jo-Ann 630 9th Ave./ 45th St. 23-04 94th St. E., Elmhurst July 2, 10pm 582-1045 (718) 458-2172 Wilson's 201 W. 79th St. La Famille Restaurant Manhattan Proper Cafe 769-0100 Southern cuisine Southern cuisine 2017 5th Ave./125th St. 217-01 Linden Blvd/ •New Jersey• 534-9909 Springfield Blvd (718) 341- CAFE Houston Person & Etta Jones Livi's Restaurant July 5 & 6 Caribbean & Southern cuisine ART GALLERIES Trumpets 6 Depot Sq., Informal Montclair 201-746-6100 Multi-Cultural Expressions 29 E. 126th St./Madison & July 10 through August 18 Fifth Avenues 831-4931 Seven artists, associated with Omjavi the Art Students League RESTAURANTS Jamaican cuisine representing France, Latin Abyssinia Primarily lunch hour take America and the United Ethiopian cooking, very out. States. Prints, drawings, oil informal and acrylic paintings and 122 Chambers St. Between sculpture. 35 Grand St./ Thompson St. Church & West Broadway, 732-1949 The Cinque Gallery 560 226-5959 Broadway/Prince St. Room B. Smith's Sylvia's 504 373-2707 Southern cuisine Southern & American cuisine Hollingsworth, Greene, Trendy Relaxed and informal. Bearden, Lawrence, Olugbefola, Ramen 771 Eighth Ave.247-2222 328 Lenox Ave. (126 & 127th Sts) 966-0660 Design Masters Intergroup Caribe Gallerie 301 Cathedral Jamaican cuisine The Blue Nile Parkway 666-8440 Traditional Ethiopian cooking Pleasant and informal, cash Romare Bearden Prints,, only. 103 W. 77th St./ Columbus Stringfellow, William Ave.580-3232 Carter, Fred Jones and Lester 117 Perry St./ Greenwich St. Gunter 255-9191 The Shark Bar Southern cuisine By appointment only Cacique Jamaican Restaurant Trendy Essie Green Galleries 419A British West Indian Cuisine 467 Amsterdam Ave. Convent Ave. 368-9635 Primarily lunch Hour. 874-8500 In Search of Freedom African-American Abstract 106 Greenwich St., Richter & Third World Café Third world cuisine Paintings 1945 to 1975 Carlyle Streets 791-0510 Through July 14 Copeland’s Spices are from west Africa. C. Alston R. Bearden, •B. Southern cuisine A very special little café. Blayton-Taylor, F. Bowling, 700 W. 125th St./Westside V. Browne, E. Clark, A.W. A Harlem institution. Highway 749-8199 Cowans, B. Delaney, S. 547 W. 145th St. 234-2457 Gilliam, R. Grist, B. Hutson,
!3—ROUTES, A Guide to African-American Culture, July 1-7 1991 Z. Ingram, G. Jackson, D.L. Maxi Priest, Shinehead The Dinizulu African Johnson, R. Joseph, L.G Carlen Davis, Dennis Dancers, Drummers & Kolawole, N. Lewis, A. Brown, Andrew Tosh, Little Singers Oscar Brown, Jr. Lenny, A Team Band Loving, R. Mayhew, A. July 1, 8:30pm and Company Fashions by Miller, M.L. O’Neal, J. Tents of Kedar. Beacon Theatre 2124 Overstreet, H. Pindell, R. Reggae Music Festival Piper, R. Reid, H.B. Rivera, Broadway/74th St. 496-7070 T. Sills, T.J. Streat, A. Louie Rankin Mighty Thomas, M. Thompson, W. •Brooklyn• Sparrow Freddie McGregor White, J. Whitten, W.T. & Frankie Paul Super Cat Williams, F. Wimberley, H. African Street Festival Barrington Levy Michigan Woodruff • Stage 1 & Smiley• Rev. Badoo July 3, 6pm July 6 Kenkeleba Gallery 214 E. 2nd St. 674-3939 Third World, Phyllis Steeple Chase Park Coney Yvonne, humorist Island African-American Artists By appointment only. • Stage 1 THEATER July 4, 6pm Manhattan East Gallery 202 E. 76th St. 988-5802 Black Stalin, Soca King Once on This Island ’91, The Village Drums of A musical set in the Maps and Madness Freedom, Carlos Garnett Caribbean, about a poor Through the Summer, Mon.-Fri. Cosmos Nucleus girl’s passion for the son of a 9 am-3 pm wealthy landowner. • Stage 2 Whitfield Lovell July 4, 6pm Booth Theatre W.45th St./ Algernon Millet Broadway 239-6200. Fred Wilson The Sisters’ Club, The The work of fourteen artists Calabash Dance Theater, Our Young Black Men Are in this exhibition represents Chinafrica Dying And Nobody Seems an array of ways art, through •Stage 1 To Care the use of maps, can chart July 5, 6pm An original music play by political solutions, ecological Sister Carol, Reggae James Chapman about the dilemmas and the inner self. Kairaba Dance Company destruction of young men by The Rapthologist drug abuse, crime, police Marine Midland Bank. SoHo brutality, alcoholism, poverty Branch 599 Broad way/ • Stage 2 and AIDS. Houston St. 219-9213 July 5, 6pm Kimati Dinizulu and The Castillo Cultural Center 500 Robertson’s African Arts Greenwich St. 941-5800 By appointment only. Kotoko Society James Spaulding Septet, Passin' Small gallery of African performs: The Song of artifacts Thur., 7pm, Fri.-Sat., 8pm, Sat.- Courage Suite A.I.M. Sun., 4pm 36 W. 22nd St. 4th Fl. Clothes by Odiya. Written & directed by Bonnie 675-4045 • Stage 1 Wright, featuring Dan Lorge, •Brooklyn• July 6, 6pm Judy Alvarez, Debra Wilson, • Randy Weston African Bernadette Jones, Rashida Bedford Stuyvesant Center Rhythms Ensemble Turner & David Lomas for Art and Culture Orquestra Broadway American Theatre of Actors • Wood Talk, Sculpture by Tulani Kinard 314 W. 54th St. (Bet 8th & 9th James McCoy • Stage 2 Aves) 993-0070/ 926-9416 • To Tell You the Truth July 6, 6pm paintings by Pat Bradley 1368 Fulton St. (718) 636-6948 Cheryl Hanna & Willie Carter Through July 7 ROUTES, A Guide Tuesday-Friday 1pm-8pm to African-American Culture Sunday 1-5pm Spiral Gallery 637 Vanderbilt Ave. (718) 783-2891 CONCERTS A Quiet Storm Dianne Reeves, George Duke, Najee July 5 Apollo Theater 253 W. 125th St. 864-0372 Reggae Sun splash
!4—ROUTES, A Guide to African-American Culture, July 1-7 1991 Ms. Hazel’s House of Costumes from the American Life in American Heavenly Rest permanent collection, Art: Selections from the Through Sept. 1, Sun, 3pm including Ann Low: In Permanent Collection A Comedy by Hazel Smith. Memoriam; TV, Films, Theatre. Through Nov 10 Featuring, Jimmy Hayeson, Daily 12:30pm to 8pm, By Jacob Lawrence appointment only, adults Louise Mike, Jerry Love, Lee The War Series, 1946- 1947 Kirk, Kim Yancy, Boysie $1.50 children $.50 White & James Smith. Harlem Fashion Museum 155 Whitney Museum of W. 120th St. Bet. Lenox and American Art 945 Madison Harlem School of The Arts Adam Clayton Powell Ave/75th St. 570-3600 645 St. Nicholas Ave. Boulevard 660-1320 362-3681 Joan Logue: Video Portrait •Bronx• Church It, Please! Gallery James Buxton, Painted A musical comedy about to Through July 28 Wood & Sculpture Puerto Rican women who Focuses on important Through October 31 discover the wonderful women in history. Buxton's work involves such world of credit cards. By International Center of personally significant issues Carlos Gorbea, starring Fred Photography 1130 Fifth Ave. as religion and motherhood. Barrows, Mel Gorham, 860-1777 Alberto Guzman, Joan Jaffe, The Bronx Museum of Art Iraida Polenco, Jeanette Barbara Chase-Riboud Satellite Gallery at Hebrew Toro. All That Rises Must Converge, Hospital for Chronic Sick 801 The Puerto Rican Traveling painting Co-Op City Boulevard Theater 304 W. 47th St. (Bet. Horace Pippen 379-5020 8th & 9th Aves. 354-1293 Victorian Parlor I, painting The Nearest Edge of the Six Degrees of Separation Martin Puryear World: Art and Cuba Now Through August 4 Courtney B. Vance Tango, sculpture Metropolitan Museum of Art This exhibition is comprises Set in Manhattan, about a of drawings, paintings, mugger who seeks refuge at Fifth Ave & 82nd St. 535-7710 collages, installations, an elegant dinner party. photography and sculpture Vivian Beaumont Theater/ Robert Colescott by nine Cuban artists. Lincoln Center Broadway/ Emergency Room (1990) The Bronx Museum of Art 65th St. 239-6200 presently on display. 1040 Grand Concourse MUSEUMS & Museum of Modern Art 681-6181 11 W. 53rd St. 708-9400 CULTURAL CENTERS •Queens• The African Presence in the Americas Langston Hughes The Caribbean Cultural Community Library and Center Through December African-Americans In Space Cultural Center The center serves as a The second largest collection meeting place for people of Science Through December of African-American history all ages and backgrounds and culture in New York City who share a common interest Guided Tours by appointment —20,000 volumes of in the cultural heritage of only. circulating and reference people of African descent. The Schomburg Center for materials. The cultural center 408 W. 58th St./ 9th Ave. Research in Black Culture is a community museum and 307-7420 515 Lenox Ave./135th St. a place for cultural activities 491-2000 Africa Explores: 20th Century —film screenings, art African Art Memory and Metaphor exhibits, literature and Romare Bearden poetry readings and musical Exhibit explores the concerts. continuing vitality of Through August 11 traditional art which coexists Drawing Workshop 102-09 Northern Blvd today with a modem art that July 6 & 13, 2pm Corona-E. Elmhurst (718) is uniquely African. A two-part introduction to 651-1100 • The Center for African Art drawing techniques. $10 per •Staten Island• person. Reservations Through December '91 Black photographers: 54 E. 68th (Bet Mad. & Lex. required. Workshops for Groups 1840-1940 Aves.) 861-1200 Through September 2
• The New Museum for Mono-Printing Workshop Gordon Parks, James Van Contemporary Art July der Zee, Austin Hansen, and Through Aug. 18 Studio Museum of Harlem the Goodridge Brothers— The New Museum for 144 W. 125th St. 864-4500 nomads who roved in the Contemporary Art 583 Lorna Simpson, photographer late 1800s hundreds through Broadway/ Houston St. New York, Pennsylvania and 219-1222 Carrie Mae Weems, photographer Michigan shooting portraits. Designers to the Stars Glen Ligon, painter Staten Island Institute of Arts Through July 7 and Sciences 75 Stuyvesant Pl. (718) 727-1135
!5—ROUTES, A Guide to African-American Culture, July 1-7 1991 CRUISE Desperadoes Steel Orchestra Russell D. Clown, Emcee Concert Chief Bey, libation to Music Boat July 1, Noon-2pm ancestors Mama Kuuma, Jon Lucien The World Trade Center opening Winnie Wilson’s July 5, 7:30 PM and 10 PM Austin J. Tobin Plaza Church Puppet Theater Wizard of PS 81, 41st St./Hudson River St. (Bet. Vesey & Liberty Sts. Basketball Marie Brooks 941-1234 Maceo Parker Dance Theater FREE-FOR-ALL July 3 & 4 • Stage 1 South Street Seaport, July 4, 12:30pm Midsummer Night Swing Ambrose State, Pier 16 Russell D. Clown & Abike Through July 27 YOUTH Jotayo, M.C. Back-A-Yard Midsummer Night Swingers Theatre, Jamaican are moved to a different Summer Arts Exposure Folklore Mother Seize, dance band from big band to Sheroe songs Maimouna Summer Arts camp for Keita School of African salsa to swing—every Wed. Boys & Girls 6-12 thru Sat. Picturesque Dance Brewery Puppets July 8 through August 9, Wizard of Basketball Fountain Plaza becomes an Monday through Friday 8:30am outdoor dance club, to 5:30pm • Stage 1 complete with dance band July 5, 12:30pm and refreshments. Swing, Movement • Dance Music tango or fox trot the night Drama Ceramics Painting Russell D. Clown, Emcee away. ($6) Drawing Cultural trips Rome Neal, jump rope Henry Street Settlement extraordinaire Yekk Muzic • Rosco Gordon & Killing Louis Abrons arts Center 466 & Children of the Future Floor, R & B Grand Street 598-0400•Film Visions in Peace, dance July 3, 8:15pm company Abike Jotayo, • Peter Duchin and His Class Clown storyteller Wizard of Orchestra Through 28 - Tickets available Basketball July 4, 8:15pm 10am day of performance Groups must make reservations. • Stage 1 • Ed Polcer and the Condon July 6, 12:30pm Reunion Band Story about a 7th grader who July 5, 8:15pmLionel has a secret—he can’t read. Russell D. Clown, Emcee Kwame Nkrumah, Hampton, Swing Promenade Theatre 2162 July 6, 8:15pm storyteller Rome Neal, jump Broadway/76th St. 420-8202 rope extraordinaire Yekk Lincoln Center Fountain Music and Children of the Plaza Broadway/65th St. • Brooklyn • Future A Touch of 877-2011 Folklore & More Dance Macy's 4th of July Fireworks African Street Festival Company Wizard of on the East River • Stage 1 Basketball July 4. 9:20pm July 3, 12:30pm Boys & Girls High School FDR Southbound closed at 1700 Fulton St/Utica & 7:30pm. Best area FDR Schenectady Aves between 14th & 42nd Sts.
!6—ROUTES, A Guide to African-American Culture, July 1-7 1991