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Event: The Refuge Project II: Advocacy against Domestic Violence through Music, Yoga and Art
- 08/08/10 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in Brooklyn NYC, NY at Littlefield Performance & Art Space Buy tickets
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Event: Burnt Sugar Freaks The James Brown Songbook
- 10/08/10 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in Harlem, NYC at The Apollo Theater
- 10/09/10 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in Harlem, NYC at The Apollo Theater
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Event: The Refuge Project II: Advocacy against Domestic Violence through Music, Yoga and Art
Tag Archives: Sweet Sweetback's Baddass Song
Ben Sisario profiles Melvin Van Peebles at The NY Times
“ASK Melvin Van Peebles about his legacy, and you get a snort, a grimace, a wave of the hand, a game-show error buzz and a finely punctuated “come on.” “I didn’t even know I had a legacy,” he said between rehearsals for his latest project, a musical-theater adaptation of his 1971 film “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss [...]
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Late Night at Joe’s Pub, with special guest, Melvin Van Peebles
As the story goes …from a humble beginning of only two theaters and a torrent of negative reviews, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baasasssss Song” eventually mushroomed to domestic box office receipts of $10,000,000.00 and landed on Daily Variety’s list of top-grossing films for the year 1971. Incidentally Sweet Sweetback was the largest grossing independent film up to [...]
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Sweetback Caught in the Act on Brooklyn Independent Television