#muhammad-ali

#muhammad-ali

Over the last few years, I've been reading unappreciated and erased novels by Black artists from the twentieth century.They've helped me think about the idea of illegibility-about what the literary world has historically deemed too wild, complex, radical, experimental, or challenging to be included in the precarious and burgeoning Black canon.

Larry Mahan, an eight-time rodeo world champion and swashbuckling showman who was once called rodeo's first matinee idol, and who brokered that reputation into side careers as a Hollywood actor, a country singer and a purveyor of must-have cowboy boots, died on May 7 at his home in Valley View, Texas.

When Elvis Presley died in 1977, Lisa Marie Presley, his only child, inherited Graceland an eight-bedroom, eight-bath Colonial revival house in Memphis that became one of the most iconic pieces of real estate in American music history.Graceland was the personal home of the king of rock 'n' roll from 1957 until his death at the age of 42.

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It was a Tuesday, another sparring day for Seniesa Estrada.Her next fight, a title unification bout, was less than a month away.The lights brightened at 4:29 p.m.The flags for 12 nations hung above.Inspirational quotes were plastered on the walls.A canvas of Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston adorned the wall behind the ring.

Kyle Nolan Kyle Nolan Kyle Nolan Kyle Nolan Kyle Nolan Kyle Nolan Kyle Nolan Kyle Nolan Kyle Nolan Kyle Nolan Kyle Nolan Kyle Nolan WESTCHESTER | 7 PARKWAY Street, LARCHMONT, N.Y.A five-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath, renovated, 3,409-square-foot home with a living room that has an original brick fireplace and a secret door to an office behind a bookshelf; a bright eat-in kitchen with custom cabinets, a wine fridge, a six-burner Thermador stove with a pot filler and a quartz island with seating; a family room with sliding doors to the outdoors; an en suite primary bedroom with a walk-in closet, a double vanity with fog-free mirrors, a soaking tub, and a glass-stall steam shower with six shower heads; a mudroom; a laundry room with storage; a fenced yard; and a detached one-car garage with an electric car charger, on 0.13 acres.

Movement director Jonathan Goddard, foreground, rehearses with the cast of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's "King Lear." (Shakespeare Theatre Company) On an afternoon in early February, before beginning the day's rehearsal of "King Lear," director Simon Godwin turns to the cast and creative team of the Shakespeare Theatre production and poses a question: "What kind of dance are you today?"
"I feel like a tap dance," the amiable Englishman says to kick off the icebreaker - a different version ofwhich he uses to start everyrehearsal, swapping out "dance" for a fresh prompt.

In the aftermath of the civil war in Nigeria that devastated his Igbo community, Samuel Fosso was sent in 1972 to live with an uncle who was a shoemaker in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.Dissatisfied with cobbling, Fosso apprenticed with an Igbo photographer down the street.Three years after his arrival, he opened his own portrait studio.

Pele's graceful genius was just one part of what made him unforgettable.He was a dervish, a magician, an artist whose speedy precision, bullet drives and twirling bicycle kicks were brush strokes offering a challenge to the staid, stationary, and traditional standards of the game he came to dominate.

Usain Bolt was delighted to join a stellar list of sporting greats after being chosen as the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award winner for 2022.The 36-year-old Jamaican retired from athletics five years ago but he has left an indelible and so far unbeatable mark on his sport.

Happy Monday, everyone!The holiday fun is just getting started and not slowing down anytime soon.Be a part of the season's festivities this week at a neighborhood tree lighting, or be one of the first to see the Smithsonian's latest exhibition.Best Things to Do This Week


     
"Entertainment Nation" exhibit.

Artist George Lois poses next to his artwork at the New York Museum of Modern Art in New York on April 22, 2008.Bebeto Matthews/AP File NEW YORK  George Lois, the hard-selling, charismatic advertising man and designer who fashioned some of the most daring magazine images of the 1960s and popularized such catchphrases and brand names as "I Want My MTV" and "Lean Cuisine," has died.