Earlier this month we lost innovative jazz and soul keyboardist George Duke and ever since tributes have been pouring in from every corner of the music world. The latest comes from Dweezil Zappa, ...

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When the burglar alarm sounds at the Wren's Nest, Marshall Thomas sometimes forgets to warn police about the shadowy figure lurking in the attic. "Why didn't you tell me there was somebody up there?" ...

Georgia last week began raising $100,000 to build a monument to one of its two great literary heroes, the late Joel Chandler Harris, author of the “Uncle Remus” stories.* Throughout the State’s public ...

They do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but a longtime Chicago fried chicken institution said imitation went too far after a new business opened with a very similar name. The owners ...

Click to open image viewer. Walt Disney's Uncle Remus featuring music from the soundtrack of "Song of the South." Record cover is yellow with color illustrations of the actor James Baskett, who played ...

Final installment in an eight-part series. See the earlier profiles here. Throughout the pandemic, and a summer of protests triggered by the killing of George Floyd, and now the scramble for vaccines, ...

— Six years ago, a frantic Tony Mack called Trenton Central High School history teacher Jack Washington and said he needed immediate help. Mack had just been declared the loser of the 2006 mayor’s ...

Like a lot of people in a lot of families, playwright Aaron Coleman grew up hearing the stories of Brer Rabbit, the cunning character from African folklore who outsmarted his animal adversaries. These ...

As the Weekly’s Scott Foundas has noted, the newly minted Disney cartoon feature The Princess and the Frog is meant to be taken as “symbolic reparation” for the presumed insult of the studio’s 1946 ...