A Guide to African-American Culture

June 3-9, 1991 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER VOL. I NO. 3

LISTINGS: ART • CABARETS • CONCERTS • DANCE RESTAURANTS • FREE-FOR-ALL • THEATER

DANCE Jelom Viera’s Dance Bradley’s 17 Brazil University Pl./11th Dance Theater of June 5, 7:30pm St. 228-6440 Harlem The troupe will Michael Carvin • Tones, Ginastera, perform a variety of Quintet Traditional dances Firebird June 7, 8pm from Brazil. Tickets are distributed on Roger Byam June 8, 2pm & Calton Holmes 8pm June 9, 3pm first come first served basis. Mickey bass • Serenade, June 4-9 Dialogues, American Museum Condon’s 117 E. 15th Dougla of Natural History St. 254-0960 June 14, 8pm Central June 15, 2pm & Park • Rock n’ Zydeco 8pm with Lucky 7 June 16, 3pm June 8, 10pm • Flower Festival • Sunday Gospel in Genzano, West /79th Brunch with The St. Sensational Gospel 769-5315 Specials June 9, 1pm Delta 88 332 8th Avenue/26th St. 924-3499 Kenny Burrell with The Trio June 4-9 Fat Tuesday’s 190 3rd Ave.Avenue/17th St. 533-7902 The Virginia Mayhew Quartet June 4 CABARETS Gold Coast Restaurant 489 West • Modern St./12th St. 206-8790 Quartet Adagietto, No. 5, Jorma Kaukonen June 4-9 June 6 Voluntaries, Fet Noire • Houston Person Lone Star Roadhouse June 21, 8pm, June Etta Jones 240 W. 52nd St. 22, 2pm & 8pm, Every Saturday 245-2950 June 23, 3pm The Blue Note 131 W. The Mannes Jazz 3rd St. 475-8592 Special: Round-trip Ensemble concert bus will be • Kenny Barron, June 4, 9:30pm available from piano Mondo Perso Blues Columbus Circle one , piano Club 167 Bleecker hour before June 3-9 St./Thompson & performance • Chico Freeman, Sullivan Sts. 477-3770 (Evening saxophone performances only). • Rebirth Brass , Band Aaron Davis Hall W. piano June 5 135th St./Convent Kenny Davis, bass Average White Avenue 650-7100 • June 10-16 Band June 6 S.O.B's 204 Varick •New Jersey• Gloria's Country St/. W. Houston St. Kitchen French-Southern Style 243-4940 Dakota Staton June 7, 7 & 9pm Informal. Sunday McCoy Tyner Gospel Brunch Avery Sharpe The Peppermint Aaron Scott Ballroom 175 Central 273 Church Street/ June 4-9 & June 11-16 Ave. Orange Franklin Street Sweet Basil 8 7th (201)624-8880 274-1814 Ave./Bleecker Doc Cheatham Jerk Paradise 242-1785 June 7-8 British West Indian Jerk preparation Benefit for Veritas Struggles 10 Therapeutic Dempsey Ave., 252 W. 29th St., Community, Inc. Edgewater (201) 268-7020 • 224-2244 Jezebel Max Roach Southern/American Jimmy Heath RESTAURANTS Cuisine Lee Konitz Scarfs, swings and A Taste Of Soul Sophistication Walter Bishop Jr. Southern and Creole Clark Terry Cuisines, New Orleans 630 9th Avenue/ 45th Paquito D’Rivera motif St. 582-1045 Al Grey Abyssinia La Famille Ron Carter Traditional Ethiopian Large and informal cooking, very informal environment June 5 35 Grand St./ 2017 5th Ave./125th • Larry Goldings Thompson 226-5959 Street 534-9909 Trio B. Smith’s Livi's Restaurant June 5-9 Southern & American Caribbean & Southern cuisine, Sophisticated cuisine • Salsa Meets Jazz Every Monday night 771 8th Ave. 247-2222 Brownstone setting, Informal Village Gate Bleecker Cacique Jamaican & Thompson Sts Restaurant 29 E. 126th St./ 475-5120 British West Indian Madison & Fifth Cuisine Avenues 831-4931 Bernie Kessel Trio • Primarily lunch Lola’s June 4-9 Hour. American & Caribbean • Mel Lewis with the 106 Greenwich St., cuisines Vanguard Jazz Richter & Carlyle Famous for her Fried Orchestra Streets 791-0510 chicken, Monday nights Sophisticated Caribe Village Vanguard 178 British West Indian 38 W. 22nd St./Fifth 7th Ave. S. 255-4037 Cuisine Avenue 675-6700 Charles Gayle, sax Pleasant and Mr. Leo William Parker bass informal. Southern Cuisine Milford Graves, Cash only Authentic Southern drums 177 Perry St./ cuisine June 8, 9pm Greenwich Street 17 W. 27th St. Bet. WEBO 317 E. 255-9191 B’way and Fifth Houston/one block Copeland's Avenue, 532-6673 east of Avenue B Southern cuisine Enter on Attorney Omjavi Street 677-3937 A Harlem institution British West Indian cuisine Kirk Lightsey, piano 547 W. 145th St. Cecil McBee, bass 234-2457 Primarily lunch hour June 2-8 take out. Zeno 126 W. 13th St. 122 Chambers St. 924-5182 Between Church &

Volume 1. Number 3. Published by OCR for Publishers, Inc. 521 W. 23rd St. New York, NY 10011. Subscription rate US$36. Send subscriptions to ROUTES, Guide to African American Culture, P.O. Box 20103, Old Chelsea Station, New York, NY 10011. ROUTES is published 48 times per year. For advertising rates call 212 527 5241. !2—Routes, A Guide to African-American Culture, June 3-9, 1991 West Broadway, The Cinque Gallery •Brooklyn• 732-1949 560 Broadway/ Sylvia's Prince Street Room ACCA–Caribbean & Southern cuisine 504 373-2707 African-American Artists Relaxed and Essie Green informal. Galleries (718) 462-7569 328 Lenox Ave. Romare Bearden Ade Gallery (126 & 127th Sts) Prints Nigerian Art 966-0660 419A Convent Ave. 260 State St. 643-3072 368-9635 The Blue Nile Alexian Fine Arts Traditional Ethiopian Miles Davis cooking Through June 8 African-American painters, sculptors 103 W. 77th St./ Abstract paintings and photographers Columbus Avenue with figuration are a large part of the 580-3232 Nerlino 96 Greene St. collection The Shark Bar 966-1661 25 Flatbush Ave. Southern cuisine June Kelly Gallery (718) 638-4773 Trendy 591 Broadway Artmen Sextet 467 Amsterdam Ave. 266-1660 June 5-21 874-8500 Kince Gallery J.P. Dillard Third World Café Open September Luther Freeman Third world cuisine through February. Jacques Goode A diverse roster of Louis Mims Spices used are from artists Robert Norman west Africa. A very Scott Joseph Selsey special little café 415 W. 146th St. 281-7493 Generations Gallery 700 W. 125th St./ 966 Fulton St. (718) Westside Highway Manhattan East 638-6910 749-8199 Gallery Dorsey Gallery Wilson's Restaurant 202 E. 76th St. 988-5802 553 Rogers Ave. & Bakery 718-771-3803 Southern cuisine By appointment only A Harlem institution Gallery Obiagali Robertson’s African African American 1980 Amsterdam Arts Art Ave./145th St. Small gallery of African artifacts 296 New York Ave. 923-9821 (718) 467-3882 Zeet Peabody Sugar By appointment only Spiral Gallery Reef 36 W. 22nd St. Fourth West Indian cuisine Floor 675-4045 637 Vanderbilt Ave. 93 2nd Ave. 47- Maps and Madness •Long Island• SUGAR Through the summer AfricanArt RT GALLERIES Whitfield Lovell, A Algemon Millet, Here Comes the Fred Wilson Dawn 303 Front St. Alternative Museum Hempstead 14 White St. 966-4444 The exhibit 516-486-0447 represents an array of Art information ways Art, through •Queens• center(AIC) the use of maps, can AIC services include chart political Discoveries VI The cataloging solutions, ecological City’s Unknown information on over dilemmas and the Older Artists 65,000 artists and 750 inner self. Through June 29, galleries and Tuesday through exhibition spaces in Marine Midland Bank 599 Broadway/ Saturday, 10am to 5pm New York, An exhibition of maintaining a slide Houston Street 219-9213 work by artists, 55 file, and providing and older… low cost consultancy on how to break into 161-04 Jamaica Ave. the 718-658-7400 Gallery network. Dan Concholar 280 Broadway/ Chambers Street Room 413 227-0282

!3—Routes, A Guide to African-American Culture, June 3-9, 1991 •Westchester• •Brooklyn• The Mazur Theater 555 E. 90th St./York AC-BAW Gallery The Studio of Mr. and E. End Aves 128 S. 4th Ave., Roland Washington: 307-7171 Mount Vernon A Voice Recital Six Degrees of 914-667-7278 June 9, 3pm Separation Major. Matthews et Courtney B. Vance •New Jersey• al Set in Manhattan, about a mugger who A Ray of Sunshine The Brooklyn Music School 122 Saint Felix seeks refuge at an Alonzo Adams St. 638-5660 elegant dinner party. Verna Heart Vivian Beaumont Melvin Clark THEATER Until June 5 Theater/Lincoln Center Broad/65th St Living Room 68 Once on This Island 239-6200 Mercer St. Jersey City A musical set in the (201)309-0499 Caribbean, about a The Goat poor girl’s passion A reflective comedy, CONCERTS for the son of a set in the Brooklyn wealthy landowner. waterfront home of an African-American Robert Townsend & Booth Theatre W.45th the Dells nurse who, with the St/Broadway aid of an exotic June 8, 7:30pm & 239-6200 11:30pm African god, enriches Lincoln Theater 2124 Our Young Black the lives of lost Broadway/74th St. Men Are Dying And young people. 496-7070 Nobody Seems To Directed by Beatrice Care Winde. Cole Porter’s 100th An original music Birthday Celebration Perry Street Theater play by James 255-7190 June 9, 8pm Chapman about the The Way of the • Bobby Short destruction of young men by drug abuse, World • Leslie Uggams crime, police Opens May 21 • & more brutality, alcoholism, “A classic comedy of Carnegie Hall poverty and AIDS. deception and Broadway/57th St. Castillo Cultural domination, power 247-7800 Center 500 imbalance, getting screwed for money Roy Hargrove Greenwich St. 941-5800 and getting screwed Quintet out of money.” June 4, 7pm Thoughts of A Andre Braugher, one The Harry DeJur Confused Black Man of the leading actors June 8, 3pm & 8pm Henry St., Playhouse Casanova 466 Grand Street The experience of an “An astonishing 598-0400 African immigrant in picture of life and America times of the world's A one-man play. most famous

!4—Routes, A Guide to African-American Culture, June 3-9, 1991 philanderer, as Gallery Talk Apple that lasts for 23 drawn by himself, his Fragments of Selves: minutes. illegitimate daughter Searching for T The Museum of The and a transvestite Jun 8, 2pm City of New York named Bobo.” Erica Constructing 'the I' Fifth Avenue and Alexander and Nkiru Nzegwu, 104th St. 534-1672 LaTanya Richardson Assistant Professor of African-Americans among the leading Philosophy and Art actors In Space Science History at Through December The Public Theater SUNYBinghamton 425 Lafayette St. will address how Guided tours by 598-7150 colonization has appointment only affected 20th Century The Schomburg •Brooklyn• African artists, and Center for Research will discuss African in Black Culture 515 Satan Never Sleeps artists questioning Lenox Ave./135th St. Through June 30 who they are, what is 491-2000 Comedy-drama musical the relevance of their Memory and It's all about Satan art, and who is its Metaphor and how he significant audience. Through August 11 intervenes in our 583 Broadway/ Romare Bearden lives. Produced and Houston Street directed by Marjorie 219-1222 Studio Museum of Moon. Harlem 144 W. 125th The Caribbean St. 864-4500 The Billie Holiday Cultural Center Theater 1368 Fulton The center serves as a 1991 Biennial St. (718)-636-0918 meeting place for Exhibition people of all ages and Through June 16 MUSEUMS & backgrounds who • Lorna Simpson, CULTURAL share a common photographer CENTERS interest in the • Carrie Mae cultural heritage of Weems, Africa Explores: 20th people of African photographer Century African Art descent. Africa Explores • Glen Ligon, painter includes 133 works of 408 W. 58th St./ 9th Whitney Museum of art divided between Avenue 307-7420 American Art 945 The Center for African Harlem Fashion Madison Ave. /75th Art and The New Museum St. 570-3600 Museum for Daily 12:30pm to 8pm •Bronx• Contemporary Art. By appointment only The exhibit explores James Buxton, the continuing Designers for stars, Painted Wood & vitality of traditional costumes from the Sculpture art which coexists permanent collection Through October 31 today with a modern including Ann Low: Buxton's work art that is uniquely In Memoriam; TV, involves such African. The New Films, Theatre. personally significant Museum houses two 155 W. 120th St. Bet. issues as religion and large sculptures by Lenox and Adam motherhood. Sokari Douglas, Alali Clayton Powell The Bronx Museum Aru (Festival Boat)and Boulevard 660-1320 Church Ede of Art Satellite (Decorating Bed for New York Faces Gallery at Hebrew Christian Wake). The Within Bohemia’s Hospital for Chronic massiveness and Borders: Greenwich Sick 801 Co-Op City complexity of the Village, 1830–1930 Boulevard 379-5020 Through June 9 sculptures are • The Nearest Edge reasons enough to This exhibit offers a of the World: Art see the show. couple of surprises— and Cuba Now The Center for did you know there Through August 4 African Art, 54 E. was a section in New This exhibition 68th St. (bet. Madison York City known as comprises of and Lexington Aves) “Old Africa”? Visit drawings, 861-1200 the museum and find paintings, collages, out about “Old installations, The New Museum Africa”. The Museum photography and for Contemporary has a fine multi- sculpture by nine Art media show The Big Cuban artists. Through August 18 Making use of all !5—Routes, A Guide to African-American Culture, June 3-9, 1991 the cultural 1800s hundreds gospel inspired legacies of the through New York, music. island, especially Pennsylvania and Rumsey Field 72nd African-Cuban Michigan shooting religion, U.S. portraits. St. Mid Central Park 529-1955 inspired Kitsch, Staten Island and the Institute of Arts and Video Witnesses iconography of the Sciences 75 Runs daily 11am-6pm Revolution itself. Stuyvesant Pl. Staten —Suggest calling for • The Third Island 718-727-1135 screening time. Emerging • Festival of Expression FREE FOR ALL Journalism Biennial: The May-June 29 Third Dimension • Roy Hargrove This festival is a and Beyond Quintet series of short Through June 23 June 5, 5:30-7pm films. People: About An exhibition of • Jimmy Heath the U.S. Invasion sculpture, Clifford Jordan and domination of installations, and Grady Tate the Panama Canal. video by artists Peter Bernstein Colin Jessop & who utilize Larry Goldings Jose Martinez computer June 6, 5:30-7pm (1990, 27 min) technology as a Black celebration: tool to explore • Toshiko Akiyoshi • space and time. Jazz Orchestra Re-reads with special guests documentary The Bronx Museum John Faddis and images of the riots of Art 1040 Grand Jesse Davis that occurred in Concourse 681-6181 June 8, 5:30-7pm Watts, August, South St., Seaport,. 1965. Tony Cokes Black (1988, 17 minutes.) Photographers: Pier 16 Artists Space 223 W. 1840-1940 • City Lore: Through September 2 Tradition and Broadway between Innovation in the Franklin and White The photographers Sts 226-3970 represented reflect a Global City wide range of styles. June 8, 1-8pm YOUTH The subjects are Concert of African- equally diverse— American, Haitian, with images taken Summer Camp Latino & klezmer Camp Minisink, New from farming, music mixes. religion, politics, York's oldest Freshener accredited camp for education, Augustine/La architecture, the arts African-American Troupe Makandal youth, is now and social life. The and Sakal perform roster of artists on registering boys and Haitian "vodoun" & girls, ages 7-15. display: Gordon pop music. Parks, James Van der Session, June 27- Zee, Austin Hansen, • McCullough’s Sons August 16 and the Goodridge of Thunder and Brothers—nomads Hamiet Bluitte and Minisink Townhouse, who roved in the late Ensemble play 646 Lenox Ave. African-American 368-8400

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