by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 20, 2024 | 12 years a slave, jazz, Julia Keefe, Lily Gladstone, Nez Perce Tribe, Nezpercians
What a treat! What a performance! On Saturday, wrapping up what looks like it will become an annual “Josephy Fest,” Julia Keefe, the Nez Perce jazz singer, brought her quartet to the Josephy Center, and closed the show. She and her New York drummer, Adam Benham, U of...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 14, 2014 | 12 years a slave, fagan, hispaniola, hobbes, las casas, nasty brutish and short, pope francis, slavery, torture
I’ve not yet seen the Academy Award winning “12 Years a Slave,” but the clips and conversation about slavery and brutality are visceral. Writer John Ridley said in a radio interview that he hoped the film would promote continuing conversations about these difficult...
