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April 17 In History 69: After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. The year 69 was called “The Year of the Four Emperors” because four different claimants held the position in this brief period of time.  According to Rome...

Well, George Saunders, First Thursday Art Walk, And More Picks For Feb 27-March 5 by Stranger Things To Do Staff Here are our arts critics' picks in every genre—from Spectrum Dance Theatre's Rambunctious #3: The Immigrants to Genre Bender, and from...

The Pasty Little Putz has decided to ‘splain to all of us “How the Post Was Lost.”  He gurgles that The Beltway’s hometown paper gave away its natural advantage.  Well, I suppose it’s better than one of his screeds...

Yusef Lateef, who died on Monday after a bout with prostate cancer, was a devout Muslim who did not like his music to be called jazz because of the supposed indecent origins and connotations of the word (although those origins are still debated). He...

© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. It is always a privilege to have Gordon Jack as a guest writer on JazzProfiles. Gordon is the author of Fifties Jazz Talk: An Oral Retrospective [Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 200...