Born in Seattle to Chinese immigrants during a time when anti-Chinese rhetoric was plaguing the country, Ruby Chow blazed many a trail for Asian Americans — especially Asian American women. In the late 1940s, she opened Ruby Chow's Restaurant in Seattle's Beacon...
The almighty algorithm put this video of legends Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt singing Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" on The Late Show with David Letterman on March 24, 1999: https://youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?si=H3DWnZoo7EZ4yoSx It's one of...
🎶 The radio plays our favorite song 🎶 And it's what keeps me holding on 🎵 Baby, do you miss me 🎵 Now that I'm gone 🎶 Picture it: you're at the club in the '90s and this song comes on. You rush to the dance floor in your halter top and bootcut jeans to body roll...
Odetta was not only a musical artist, but she was also a formative voice of the Civil Rights Movement. Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1930 and raised in Los Angeles, Odetta Holmes combined her classical training and a deep sense of purpose to her brand of folk,...
The name Diane Keaton is often synonymous with Annie Hall, but her oeuvre is vast. From Baby Boom to First Wives Club to The Godfather, she has proven she is and shall forever be an icon. I absolutely adored her in the holiday classic The Family Stone and seeing...
When the late, great musician D'Angelo (aka Michael Eugene Archer) entered the scene, he shook things up when he brought old school R&B and soul to the masses with an inimitable down and dirty grit and masculine sensitivity that ushered in the neo-soul movement...
Gerda von Zobeltitz -- excuse me, Countess Gerda von Zobeltitz was one of the first to receive what was known as Transvestitenschein, otherwise known as the "transvestite pass" in Germany in 1912 during the Weimar era. The Countess (not the the Luann from The Real...
When I hear the name Katherine Hamnett I immediately think of the upbeat stylings of Wham! as George Michael wears a CHOOSE LIFE T shirt alongside Andrew Ridgeley as they sing in their ""Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" video. And who designed that political T shirt?...
Released in 2014, the docu Kumu Hina follows Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, a native Hawaiian teacher, cultural leader, and trans woman, as she mentors students and advocates for the preservation of her native language, culture, and values. Through her journey, the film...
