Jennie Elizabeth (J.E.) Franklin (Playwright) is a writer, playwright, and educator. In 1964, while working with CORE in Mississippi, she engaged in an effort designed to interest students in reading. Her techniques led to her playwriting career and her first full-length play, A First Step to Freedom (1964), which was performed in Harmony. Mississippi, at Sharon Waite Community Center. Other produced plays include Prodigal Daughter, a street theater project performed at Lincoln Center and on a Bronx street corner; The In-Crowd (1965). performed at the Montreal Expo in 1967; Mau Mau Room, performed by the Negro Ensemble Company Workshop; Two Flowers, produced at the New Feminist Theatre; and The Prodigal Sister, a musical, with book and lyrics by Franklin and music by Micki Grant, produc...
Recently, I heard a wonderful call-in radio show in which people were asked what they would miss about Iowa if they moved (or had moved) away. Some of the list was predictable: sweet corn, four definite and often dramatic seasons, the open horizon, the chorus of locusts, RAGBRAI and The Iowa State Fair. I was intrigued to hear that a man who moved to Seattle missed thunder and lightning - apparently despite constant drizzle, it seldom all-out storms there. As a prodigal daughter of Iowa who has lived a good chunk of my life elsewhere, I missed sticking a seed in our rich, black soil and seeing it thrive on a little water and a lot of benign neglect. Although I was raised a city girl, I missed hearing farm reports on the news - the corn futures, pork bellies and ag legislation all a remi...
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called. That church-billboard truism may have been put into flesh by the odd and uplifting case of Augusta's own Ashley Smith. She's now a national celebrity on a book tour, having sat on the same Oprah couch where Tom Cruise once stood. But she admits to being no angel.
On July 5th, gorgeous singer/songwriter/musician/model Traciana Graves hosted Diaspora Soul at Ashford & Simpson's legendary Sugar Bar (254 West 72 Street in Manhattan). Presented by Emancipation Entertainment and Kevin Harewood's EDcletic Entertainment, the event also featured Robin Small, KuKu and Tom Paul. Attendees advise it was a magical musical event. Now, getting back to the everintoxicating Harlem-born Traciana Graves. She was largely raised in France and is the offspring of a beautiful mother, whose own successful modeling career took the family abroad. In France, the multi-talented Traciana became immersed in the arts and music. She taught herself to play guitar, studied at the Sorbonne, and became the first American accepted into the prestigious National Acting Conservato...
...Traciana's new album, "Tales of A Prodigal Daughter," released on her own Emancipation Entert...
The would-be novelists who inhabit a cozy literary retreat in Dorset County, England, in "Tamara Drewe" seem likely to be more familiar with the royal dukes of the British peerage system than with the Daisy Dukes of Hazzard County. So when the film's title character, played by former Bond girl Gemma Arterton, shows up at said retreat in a tight sleeveless red T-shirt and short-shorts that might have embarrassed Catherine Bach, it's no surprise her youthful, unabashed sexuality is not just a distraction but a disruption - a force that precipitates adultery, e-mail fraud and even a lethal cow stampede. What is a surprise is that Tamara Drewe - despite her cheeky introduction - proves to be perhaps the most tedious character in her own movie. A prodigal daughter with a once-prodigious prob...
Birgitte Thaarup French remembers the day she swore she'd never become a minister. But then, things came differently. Living the two years after high school graduation as the prodigal daughter, French suddenly found herself praying intensely to God for guidance. The next day, she felt such a sense of peace and relief, she could no longer turn her back on God. Born in Denmark into a Danish family of United Methodist ministers, French chose to take her ministry outside of Denmark. She met her husband, the son of a Danish and American missionary couple, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. French and her husband, Niels French, later moved to Algeria and Kenya, where they worked with Hutu and Tutsi refugees. In 1997, French and her family relocated to Atlanta, where she studied theology at ...
The "Her Say" column of the "Womanews" section in the Chicago Tribune functioned as an editorial to position the new women's section and provide women-centered perspectives on issues. Written by women from outside the Tribune staff during its 1991 launch, "Her Say" spoke in voices drawn from the larger women's community, often barkening back to earlier notions of gender to bring forward concepts and rework them to fit American women in the 1990s. Using sex difference and privileging sisterhood, "Her Say" articulated the terms of a separate women's culture, the bounds of which continued to be defined by newspapers across the nation as they introduced their own women's sections. Through "Her Say" this section signaled a shift in the media paradigm from liberal feminism to a cultural femin...
... based on the revelation of the mother-daughter bond. "I called my mother and my friend with the f... was a myth for the 1990s - that of a prodigal daughter. The working daughter, having prostituted...
Growing up, Catherine Grace Cline wants nothing more than to escape her small-town life. And she does, moving from Ringgold, Ga., to Atlanta. But she finds she can go home again, and even want to stay there for good. While the narrator of Susan Gregg Gilmore's "Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen" has a delightfully distinct Southern accent, no prodigal daughter hereabouts will have trouble understanding what she is saying: Sometimes a little distance helps a viewer focus and see close-up people and places more clearly.
Shows worth tuning in this week: GILMORE GIRLS - The long-awaited reunion between mother and daughter Gilmore takes place this week. In "The Prodigal Daughter Returns," Rory (Alexis Bledel) pulls away from her grandparents and takes major steps to change the direction of her life. This leads her back to Mama Lorelai (Lauren Graham). In other Gilmore news, a person from Luke's past shows up - don't they always pop up during sweeps periods? - introducing complications for Luke (Scott Patterson) and Lorelai. (8 p.m. Tuesday, WB)
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