Tragic news, as Philly drummer G. Calvin Weston lost his son to a hit-and-run driver this week. Calvin Dominique Wilkerson would have turned 19 yesterday, Mother's Day.
Calvin, as most of you probably know, is an astounding drummer, a member of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time band, longtime collaborator with bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma (I wrote about the pair in a Citypaper cover story last year), ex-Lounge Lizard, occasional Sex Mobber, one-third of the electrified Free Form Funky Freqs (with Tacuma and Vernon Reid) and leader of the band Big Tree and the local jam session Mad Cow.
Weston will be hosting a fundraiser to help cover funeral expenses on Wednesday at The Fire from 8pm til 2am, admission a $5 minimum donation. Donations can also be sent via paypal to domnikaweston@hotmail.com or domnikaweston@gmail.com until May 15.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Toshi TV
Was interviewed this week for the CW Philly's evening news for a piece on Toshi Makihara's YouTube Solo365 Project, which I wrote about in a cover story for Citypaper earlier this year. Video is on the CBS3 site now.
Metro, May 4-8
Citypaper, May 7
This week: a review of JJ Abrams' new Star Trek reboot, music picks for OffOnOff at Johnny Brenda's and Burnt Sugar at the North Star, and an arts pick for Martina Plag's puppet-theater piece Crane's Promise.
Metro, April 27-May 1
This week: a report on the West Philadelphia Orchestra, just returned (and thankfully symptom-less) from Mexico City, where the swine flu epidemic nixed the festival they were scheduled to play; a piece on Tavares Stachan's new show at the ICA; and a preview of the 8th annual Philadelphia Wine Festival.
Citypaper, April 30
Just a pair of film reviews this week: one for Kiyoshi Kurosawa's unsettling turn towards family melodrama, Tokyo Sonata, and the second for the Michael Caine-redeemed cloyer Is Anybody There?
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