Perhaps you read J.S. Marcus's fiction in the late 1980s, when his stories began to appear in Harper's Magazine and The New Yorker and elsewhere. Even if you didn't, chances are you read (or at least started to read) a dozen other stories...

Booker, Bobbi Philadelphia Tribune, The 08-13-2004 West Philadelphia native Omar Tyree wears a multitude of titles. He's a journalist, author, lecturer, poet, screenwriter, songwriter and publisher, and he's looking to create timeless African-American reading material and feature film ideas, while continuing community entrepreneurship....

Pirate films are almost as old as movies themselves. There was Douglas Fairbanks as "The Black Pirate" in 1926. Errol Flynn was "Captain Blood" in 1935. In 1952, Burt Lancaster became "The Crimson Pirate." Thirty years later, Kevin Kline was the Pirate King in 1983's...

Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart ... Korngold?Countless millions have at least heard of the classical masters associated with Vienna. Not only the titanic trio of Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johannes Brahms viewed the city at some point as their musical home.So did Anton Bruckner,...