September 17, 2000
[Times photo: Toni L. Sandys]
Al Black gained a reputation as an artist, then lost it as a cocaine addict. Now, drab prison walls are his canvas, and the Lord is his inspiration. Story
Is this Indiana's defining moment?
The phone rang. "Hello?" "They fired him!" my mother announced. No "Hello," no "Hi, sweetie," no "How are you?" Just "They fired him!"
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Proving ground
Marjorie Spurrier speaks with sweet matter-of-factness about her husband's time as a tennis player. It's an old story she works at retelling, waving her arms and feet in volleys, in her floral print dress and blue slacks and blue socks.
Everything in concert
The Florida Orchestra's concertmaster juggles her role as "right-hand man" in Tampa Bay with finishing a master's degree program in Cleveland.
Season of change
With a new executive director, the Florida Orchestra has a full schedule and many issues to settle in the next year.
Arts Talk
Film festival sets schedule
Audio Files
WOODY GUTHRIE, DUST BOWL BALLADS (BUDDHA) Recorded in 1940, Dust Bowl Ballads is a slice of Americana from our nation's most socially conscious singer-songwriter. Woody Guthrie was telling it like it was back when Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Guthrie's own boy Arlo weren't yet glimmers in their pappies' eyes.
A friend after his own art
"They were as complementary as red and green, as opposed as white and black," says Francoise Gilot, describing Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, two giants of 20th century art, and the subjects of a half-hour television documentary airing on Wednesday at 10 p.m. on WEDU-Ch.3.
