Magic Map Studio’s remastered soundtrack, King’s Quest VI – An Ode to the Isles, is available now on digital or vinyl.
Art by Bruce Brenneise and Say Mistage.
The Circus Saints and Sinners Club, formed to help aged and ailing circus performers, held a shindig on February 25, 1938. The gang, from left to right, are Ham Fisher, cartoonist; Gene Buck, novelist; McClelland Barclay, artist; Dudley Field Malone, lawyer; Renade Arnold, International Club President; Bill Egan, Pennsylvania stationmaster; Lewis E. Lawes, warden of Sing Sing, and "Jolly Bill" Steincke, cartoonist and radio and television performer.
“Old Sparky” was first used at Sing Sing prison for a mass execution on July 7, 1891. The chair was situated in a purpose-built building known as the Death House within the high-security Sing Sing prison. The chair performed its last execution in 963.
I’m doing SXSW Film again and my feelings are complicated about that fact 😂 Filter SXSW if you don’t wanna see random shit about it.
I saw this premiere
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
It was so good. Like SO fucking good. I love Coleman Domingo and most of the rest of the cast are from the very program for theatre in Sing Sing it depicts. It is so beautiful and real and the movie and the Q&A w/ the men who lived it and made the film of it WRECKED ME in the best way.
I have never in my life experienced a film so powerful, joyful, and moving. Sing Sing focuses on the Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) progam at Sing Sing Prison and features many alumni of the program in it's heart-achingly beautiful retelling of John "Devine" G Whitfield's experience.
The crowd at it's world premier last night at TIFF stood and cried and laughed and cheered as 5 of the 13 alumni and the founder of the RTA joined the director on the stage.
How the electric chair was used by Thomas Edison in 1890 to discredit a commercial rival while sending a murderer up in smoke
The 1880s saw intense competition between two electricity giants to convince millions of Americans that their version of the electric current was the safest. In what has to be one of the dirtiest tricks in corporate history, the industrial magnate and inventor Thomas Edison made sure his competitor’s current was used to power the new fangled electric chair. A means of execution intended to be…
Bandcamp highlighted Reminder Records (Brooklyn, New York) - another reissue label, this one rising from the ashes of Sing Sing.
I've enjoyed nearly every highlight from the article, sounds that recall The Jam, Shoes, and Television Personalities populate the releases.
The Jacks (Tulsa, Oklahama), however, get the post. This is power-pop in the vein of The Who, The Replacements (Tommy Stinson was a session player for crying out loud), Hüsker Dü (Bob Mould was a session player for crying out loud). And somehow, all of that is fit into the fact that band started as as protegees of Dwight Twilley.
poetry and musical theater get similar accusations leveled at them in terms of not being realistic, i.e. “no one fucking talks like that” or “people don’t randomly burst into song in real life” and sometimes i just want to take people by the shoulders and say. there are forms of art that are not aiming for perfect realism. are you capable of handling that
The world is oftentimes such an ugly place, but sometimes it can be so beautiful.
Like, when two choirs, one from Croatia and the other from Zimbabwe, met on the opposite sides of a Lisbon subway station and both sang to each other.
I unfortunately do not know what the Zimbabwe children choir sang to them (although it was so beautiful), but the Croatian klapa Kastav sang 'Kuća puna naroda' (a house full of people).
And let my reward be a house full of people,
my life, give me a voice, so I can embrace you with songs.