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¡inauguration day!

January 20, 2021Books Chris Joseph StancatoAlmanac, Covid-19, Culture, history, Humanity, Inauguration, Inauguration Day, New Year, Pandemic, People, Poems, poetry, President, Society at Large, sonnets, stages, Stories, Supplemental Sonnets, Supplemental Sonnets Almanac, travel, United States of America, USAorange

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new book for you! supplemental sonnets, almanac. —Chris Joseph Stancato

January 16, 2021Books Chris Joseph Stancato2020, 2021, Africa, Central America, Chapbook, Chapman, Chris Joseph Stancato, Christina Rosetti, Covid-19, Culture, Dante, Europe, Humanity, North America, Pandemic, Paperback Writer, People, Petrarch, Poet, Shakespeare, Society at Large, sounds, South America, Spenser, Story, Supplemental Sonnets, Supplemental Sonnets Almanac, travel, United States of America, words, Zineorange

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listen to billie holiday sing…

December 5, 2020Documentary ReviewsAfrican-American, American Jazz Singer, American Swing Music, Billie Holiday, Broward County Film Society, Charles Mingus, Chris Joseph Stancato, Chuck Leavell, Cinema Paradiso, Count Baise, discrimination, Documentary, Documentary Review, Eleanor Fagan, FLIFF, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood FL, James Erskine, Jazz, jazz singer, Lady Day, Les Young, Lester Young, Linda Lipnack Kuehl, Louis Armstrong, Music, Race, Savor Cinema, song, Strange Fruit, The Tree Man, The Vinyl Record Collection of Stories Volume I, United States of Americaorange

BILLIE—A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT BILLIE HOLIDAY CHRIS JOSEPH STANCATO There are many circles of life that we enter, some broken, some unbroken, and some crossover. In Billie the circles of lives involve two women: Billie Holiday and a journalist named, Linda Lipnack Kuehl. The latter person is only part of this documentary, but she is the Roman à clef to unlock the façade of what we know about Billie Holiday i.e., Eleanor Fagan. https://youtu.be/hKimh-iPd_0 NOW PLAYING AT SAVOR AND Read more [...]

“Great book for any music fan!”

October 15, 2020Books Chris Joseph StancatoBelgium, Books, Cafe, Central Florida, Chris Joseph Stancato, Daddy Kool Records, Ficcion, Fiction, Florida, Germany, Great Britain, local businesses, Miami, Music, Orlando, Park Ave CDs, record store day 2020, record stores, Records, RecordStoreDay, RSD, rsd2020, shop, Spain, St. Petersburgh, Support Local, Tampa, tea, The Vinyl Record Collection of Stories Volume I, UCF, United Kingdon, United States of America, University, USA, USF, Vinyl, vinyl collection, Zinesorange

THE VINLY RECORD COLLECTION OF STORIES, VOLUME I NOW AVAILABLE AT: PARK AVE CDs PARK AVE CDs Located in Orlando Available on AmazonAvailable at Park Ave CD's, Orlando, FL ★★★★★ "Every Great Song, has a Great Story"— Chris Joseph Stancato Support Your Local Record Store like Park Ave CDs located in Orlando, Florida. At Park Ave CDs you'll find: CDs, DVDs, LPs, Toys, T-shirts, Zines, and Books like mine. You can also support this great store by purchasing Read more [...]

August Wilson August Wilson—A Great African Griot August Wilson—The Great American Playwright The son of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—the storyteller—the poet Like Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was an American Anthem So too is Wilson’s ten plays called the ‘Pittsburgh Cycle’ or the ‘Century Cycle’

February 11, 2020FLASH FICTIONAfrican-American, American Anthem, Americana, August Wilson, Black America, Chris Joseph Stancato, Donald Goines, James Baldwin, Music, OrangePostman, Playwright, song, Storytelling, United States of Americaorange

This social timeline of African-Americans in the Twentieth Century is truly an American anthem. As Ma Rainey said in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, “Life’s way of talking, you don’t sing to feel better, you sing ‘cause that’s the way of understanding life.” For this matter, I feel compelled to respect Wilson’s conviction to convey these timeless stories. The Three Months of August by Chris Joseph Stancato The Three Months of August is based on the perspectives of the ‘Pittsburgh Read more [...]

Tibby’s Howl of Freedom

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Tibby's Howl of Freedom

“I can’t find Tibby?” a rattled 10 years old girl named Rica said to her mother Britely who was cooking in the kitchen.

Together they frantically ran out of the apartment, down a flight of wet stairs and outside where Rica last saw her dog.

“Which way did she run?” Britely said.

“She saw a black cat, started to bark, and then,” Rica paused to catch her breath, “Tibby jerked and the leash slipped from my hand. I’m sorry momma—I’m sorry!” Rica began Read more [...]