Alice Walker

Hey Ravens fans! Readings for Purple Friday

2012-01-13 08:18:00

As the Baltimore Ravens get ready for this weekend's game, folks are geared up for a special playoff edition of Purple Friday, with colorful sweatshirts, caps, shirts, sweaters, etc. For the bookish, here are some favorite purple titles, to get in the...

Reggie Watts brings wooly show to the Mammoth

2011-08-04 00:00:00

Reggie Watts' story is much like that of any other comic: He was a class clown, always goofing off and playing jokes on everybody, much to the consternation of his teachers. But during his youth in Great Falls, Mont., he also was in the school...

Lewis Museum marks sixth year with free events

2011-06-23 11:07:00

The story goes that Reginald F. Lewis, the remarkably successful Baltimore-born lawyer, businessman and philanthropist, learned the value of saving money from his grandmother. She gave him a tin cup to hold his earnings from delivering papers when he...

At Akwaaba B&B, curl up with writers

2005-02-24 00:00:00

Author Walter Mosley's room is dark and mysterious with midnight-blue walls, black velvet drapes and lamps that shine interrogationlike spotlights across the walls. It's a room befitting the popular creator of a series of detective novels. Toni Morrison'...

'Jitney': Vehicle for a friendship

1999-01-03 00:00:00

The friendship between playwright August Wilson and director Marion McClinton began two decades ago when they both lived in St. Paul, Minn. Since then, Wilson has won two Pulitzer Prizes (for "Fences'' and "The Piano Lesson''), and McClinton has acted...

Jesmyn Ward ('Salvage the Bones') writes of Mississippi

2012-04-22 00:00:00

Jesmyn Ward was struggling. Despite two master's degrees and five years of work experience, her job situation was difficult: She commuted an hour each way to a low-paying college teaching job. In her writing career, things were even worse. She sent out...

Fantasyland Theatrical seeks actors for local premiere of 'Color Purple'

2012-03-27 13:34:00

Fantasyland Theatrical Productions, which presented the Central Florida premiere of"Xanadu"and will open the local premiere of "9 to 5" this Friday, is planning a production of "The Color Purple" in August. The production will be the Central Florida...

Adrienne Rich dies at 82; feminist poet and essayist

2012-03-28 20:31:00

Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream and subsequently received high literary honors, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz. She was 82. The cause was...

Theater review: 'The Color Purple' at Celebration Theatre

2012-03-14 16:32:51

Michael Chabon, royalty rates and an e-book backlist

2011-12-20 16:34:51

‘Pariah’ director Dee Rees' odd path: bunion pads to Spike Lee

2012-01-05 16:37:43

Unclassified Info: Thanks for taking part in the debate

2011-10-17 15:40:00

What do I have in common with a growing list of authors that include Salman Rushdie, Lemony Snicket, Gloria Steinem and Alice Walker? If you said we’re regulars at Mario’s deli, you’d be wrong. Except in my case, where you would have...

" Why go: Tony Award-winner Marsha Norman's adaptation for the stage is just as memorable as Walker's novel and Steven Spielberg's film. Reconsider: If you are not a fan of musicals even if you loved the book and/or the movie. Details: 7 p.m.

2012-01-19 09:54:39

novel "The Color Purple." The film about the travails of a poor black woman in the South during the first years of the 20th century mostly paid off for Spielberg, with positive reviews and a box office haul of $142 million worldwide.

2011-11-18 16:02:56

Oprah Winfrey made her film debut in "The Color Purple," a 1985 release from another book adaptation, this time from Alice Walker's novel.

2011-05-13 13:36:09