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Download or read book Westsiders written by William Shaw and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenal success of Los Angelinos like N.W.A, Ice-T, Ice Cube, Coolio, Snoop, Dr.Dre and Warren G. means that every block in Southcentral contains at least one boy who wants to be a rapper. Westsiders is a book about seven young men, all of whom are trying to make it in the rap business. It follows the changes in their musical and personal lives as they try and get shows, auditions, record demos in an increasingly shark-filled market-place. A few have been, or are, gang members. Some have straight jobs, others are drug dealers. Some have stable backgrounds, others were raised by grandparents, aunts or single mothers. Some love gangsta rap with a passion, and want to keep faith with it: others want to move on to something more positive. What they all share is the experience of growing up in a place that is far more violent than the one their parents grew up in. They have to navigate the loyalties of neighbourhood and friendship. All have lost close friends or relatives in the violence.
Book Synopsis My West Side Story by : George Chakiris
Download or read book My West Side Story written by George Chakiris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natalie Wood and “lovely” Richard Beymer, to the mercurial Jerome Robbins and “passionate” Rita Moreno, with whom Chakiris remains friends. “I know exactly where my gratitude belongs,” Chakiris writes, “and I still marvel at how, unbeknownst to me at the time, the joyful path of my life was paved one night in 1949 when Jerome Robbins sat Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents down in his apartment and announced, ‘I have an idea.’"
Book Synopsis The Upper West Side by : Michael V. Susi
Download or read book The Upper West Side written by Michael V. Susi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Upper West Side of Manhattan, the residential and retail neighborhood between Central Park and the Hudson River, is famous for its liberalism, cosmopolitan culture, and appetizing. It is a neighborhood as diverse in its population as it is in its architecture. Known as Bloomingdale in the mid-19th century, it was renamed the West End by the century's end when real estate speculation and mass transportation made their way inevitably northward in Manhattan. It was at this time that the grand boulevards and avenues Central Park West, Broadway, Columbus Avenue, Amsterdam Avenue, West End Avenue, and Riverside Drive each quickly assumed their impressive and distinct characters.
Book Synopsis Woman of Light by : Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Download or read book Woman of Light written by Kali Fajardo-Anstine and published by One World. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina “Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you’re swimming under a big, sparkling night sky.”—Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You A PHENOMENAL BOOK CLUB PICK AND AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Book Riot There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors’ origins, how her family flourished, and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. Written in Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill the pages of this multigenerational western saga. Woman of Light is a transfixing novel about survival, family secrets, and love—filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, all of whom are just as special, memorable, and complicated as our beloved heroine, Luz. LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION
Book Synopsis West Side Story by : Richard Barrios
Download or read book West Side Story written by Richard Barrios and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating, richly illustrated full account of the making of the ground-breaking movie classic West Side Story (1961). A major hit on Broadway, on film West Side Story became immortal-a movie different from anything that had come before, but this cinematic victory came at a price. In this engrossing volume, film historian Richard Barrios recounts how the drama and rivalries seen onscreen played out to equal intensity behind-the-scenes, while still achieving extraordinary artistic feats. The making and impact of West Side Story has so far been recounted only in vestiges. In the pages of this book, the backstage tale comes to life along with insight on what has made the film a favorite across six decades: its brilliant use of dance as staged by erstwhile co-director Jerome Robbins; a meaningful story, as set to Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's soundtrack; the performances of a youthful ensemble cast featuring Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, and more; a film with Shakespearean roots (Romeo and Juliet) that is simultaneously timeless and current. West Side Story was a triumph that appeared to be very much of its time; over the years it has shown itself to be eternal.
Book Synopsis Remembering Detroit's Old Westside, 1920-1950 by :
Download or read book Remembering Detroit's Old Westside, 1920-1950 written by and published by Westsiders. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis West Side Story by : Leonard Bernstein
Download or read book West Side Story written by Leonard Bernstein and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1972 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of contemporary plays includes structured GCSE assignments for use by individuals or groups. These include questions which involve close reading, writing and discussion. This play places the "Romeo and Juliet" story in a New York gang-warfare context.
Download or read book Westsiders written by Tom Finn and published by Petra Books. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finn gives us real gems (Darrell Squires, Library Resources Board, Newfoundland) -- sketches from the social fabric and the subtle influence of the American presence in Newfoundland, Canada, in the 1940s and 1950s. Like a ship in the mist there emerges from these ardent, tragicomic lives, a recognition of ourselves. -- * drama * relationships * desire and delusion * --
Book Synopsis East Side, West Side by : Marcia Davenport
Download or read book East Side, West Side written by Marcia Davenport and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of New York city life, with a mixture of nationalities, tenement dwellers, cafe society, and the aristocracy, after World War II.
Book Synopsis Upper West Side Story by : Peter Salwen
Download or read book Upper West Side Story written by Peter Salwen and published by Peter Salwen. This book was released on 1989 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As any resident, restaurateur, or realtor will tell you, New York's Upper West Side--that swath of Manhattan between Central Park and the Hudson River, from roughly Columbus Circle to Columbia University--is the place for fashionable dining, dwelling, and dressing up. But the Young Urban Professionals now discovering the area (and many oldtimers, too) might be surprised to learn that other colonists had preceded them by two or three hundred years--Dutch farmers and English gentry with names like Theunis Idens van Huys, Hendrick Hendrickon Bosch, Charles Ward Apthorpe, and Oliver De Lancey. The names of many later residents are more familiar: Edgar Allan Poe, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lillian Russell, Diamond Jim Brady, Florenz Ziegfeld, Arturo Toscanini, Fanny Brice, William Randolph Hearst, Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Mumford, Humphrey Bogart (he was a child there), Lauren Bacall (so was she), Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Leonard Bernstein, John Lennon. Quite a neighborhood. And Peter Salwen’s Upper West Side Story is quite a book: an engaging, often hilarious history of this fabulous city-within-a-city. It is a treasury of colorful biographies--of farmers, tycoons, thieves, and artists. It is an architectural grand tour--of the Dakota, the Ansonia, Lincoln Center, and the romantic residential skyscrapers of Central Park West. It is a compendium of Manhattan lore and delightful as well as occasionally horrifying trivia, enough to turn even a casual browser into the Compleat Upper West Sider. The story of this dynamic neighborhood begins with the colonial period, when merchant princes commanded royal views of the Hudson--until the approach of Washington’s troops drove them from their mansions--and continues through the bucolic nineteenth century, when the Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum at 116th and Broadway (site of today's Columbia University) was the Upper West Side's prime tourist attraction. By the turn of the [twentieth] century, the fashionable “West End," as the neighborhood was then known, boasted extravagant mansions and private homes, grand parks and equestrian boulevards, and its own unique theatrical and night life. Author Peter Salwen chronicles those high-living years, and the half century of inexorable decline that followed--with its poverty and often sensational crime--and brings us up-to-date with a lively account of [the 1980s'] galloping renaissance. [This book] is living history--an unfinished story--generously illustrated with vintage engravings and photos of the buildings and people great and humble (those still with us and those that are no more). Also included are special walking tours to suit all levels of ambition and energy, and a who’s who of famous and infamous residents and where they lived."--Dust jacket.
Book Synopsis The West Side Waltz by : Ernest Thompson
Download or read book The West Side Waltz written by Ernest Thompson and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1982 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Holding out indomitably against advancing age, dwindling finances and failing health, Margaret Mary Elderdice, a widow and former concert pianist, resists the attempts of her violin-playing spinster neighbor, Cara Varnum, to move in with
Download or read book West Side Rising written by Char Miller and published by Maverick Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1921 flood that put a spotlight on environmental and social inequality in a southwestern city
Book Synopsis The West Side Kid by : Valentine Cardinale
Download or read book The West Side Kid written by Valentine Cardinale and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorne Bennett used to be a quite famous movie star, until that fateful day when his wife was found murdered in their Manhattan apartment and he became the prime suspect. Unable to provide an adequate alibi, "The West Side Kid," as he is known to his fans, felt forced to flee and leave his baby daughter Laura behind with her aunt and uncle. Twenty-two years later, he is still on the run, unaware that Laura, now grown and working as an advertising copywriter in New York City, has become so obsessed with learning as much as she can about her parents she launches her own investigation into the murder and her father's role in it. Against the advice of police and relatives, she throws herself into the cold case and picks up some valuable information. Gradually, the pieces start coming together, but the more she learns, the more her life and the lives of others are endangered. Here's what reviewers are saying about The West Side Kid: For Reader Views, reviewer Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson defines Cardinale's writing as "definitely imaginative and engaging, with a fast-moving story, wild twists and turns and an interesting ending. His characters are well defined and thoroughly believable The villains are appropriately repugnant and the good guys dashing and daring." Her favorite character is twelve-year-old Alex Volpe, whose "keen powers of observation and charming personality were a true asset in the quest for the truth." The reviewer hopes that she, along with Alex's father (Billy) and Laura, "appear in some kind of a sequel or spin-off story in the near future." Finally, this comment: "I feel certain that The West Side Kid by Valentine Cardinale will be enjoyed by readers everywhere." Midwest Book Rerview, focusing on Lorne Bennett's plight, calls attention to the role that fear plays in people's lives, making "you flee from everything, including the ones you love." The West Side Kid is "an entertaining thriller, and highly recommended reading." ForeWord Clarion Review likes the way "Cardinale skillfully throws suspicion on a series of individuals as Laura is repeatedly warned by a mysterious caller not to get involved in the investigation." This reviewer also thinks that "Alex's sleuthing produces nice touches" and notes that "the author has left open the door for sequels" featuring several characters, including the precocious Alex. "Cardinale's fast-paced and imaginative twists and turns should keep his fans asking for more." Sacramento Book Review calls The West Side Kid "a well-written novel with plenty to recommend. While it is a mystery story, it is also the search for meaning and roots. Laura needs to lay her own ghosts to rest about her family and the abandonment she's felt all her life. And her resolution provides her not only an answer to that early mystery, but also peace with her life. A quick and enjoyable story."
Book Synopsis Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side by : Jim Mackin
Download or read book Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side written by Jim Mackin and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 600 captivating stories of notable former residents of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, some famous, some forgotten What do Humphrey Bogart and Patty Hill (co-author of “Happy Birthday,” the most popular song of all time) have in common? Both of them once lived in the neighborhood of Morningside Heights and Bloomingdale, a strip of land that runs from the 90s to 125th Street, between the Hudson River and Central Park. Spanning hundreds of years, Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side is a compilation of stories of nearly 600 former residents who once called Manhattan’s Upper West Side home. Profiling a rare selection of wildly diverse people who shaped the character of the area, author Jim Mackin introduces readers to its fascinating residents—some famous, such as George and Ira Gershwin and Thurgood Marshall, and some forgotten, such as Harriet Brooks, Augustus Meyers, and Elinor Smith. Brief biographies reveal intriguing facts about this group, which include scientists, explorers, historians, journalists, artists, entertainers, aviators, public officials, lawyers, judges, and some in a category too unique to label. This collection also promotes accomplished women who have been forgotten and spotlights The Old Community, a tight-knit African American enclave that included such talented and accomplished residents as Marcus Garvey, Billie Holiday, and Butterfly McQueen. The book is divided into five geographical sections: the West 90s, the West 100s, the West 110s, the West 120s, and Riverside Drive. Addresses are arranged in ascending order within each section, first by street number and then by street address number. While the focus is on people, the book includes an eclectic collection of interesting facts and colorful stories about the neighborhood itself, including the 9th Avenue El, Little Coney Island, and, notoriously, one of the most dangerous streets in the city, as well as songs and movies that were written and filmed in the neighborhood. Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side provides a unique overview of the people who shaped the neighborhood through their presence and serves as a guide to those who deserve to be recognized and remembered.
Book Synopsis Stunning Stephen Edwards and the West Side Kids in the Invisible Man by : David Dorris
Download or read book Stunning Stephen Edwards and the West Side Kids in the Invisible Man written by David Dorris and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you like to be entertained, you will really enjoy reading this book. Have I ever lied to you before? No, not never. This is a an easy read for any age with a great story that will keeps your attention, make you feel good and make you laugh. Oh yeah. Buy this book, go home, sit in your easy chair, put your feet up and start reading. Once you start getting involved with the story, you may say to yourself, “Impossible, can’t be done. No way.” And you will not want to put this book down. You may want to make yourself invisible so nobody will bother you as you read on with the laughs, plots, twists and turns with many surprises. The story centers around boxing with a boxer named Stunning Stephen Edwards as The Invisible man. The Jerry Dickerson gang is after Stephen for not taking a fall at his last boxing match. Stephen teams up with The West Side Kids Detective Agency and two Davenport Police Detectives to get out of trouble with The Jerry Dickerson Gang. Stephen is introduced a new way to fight crime. One of the Detectives gives Stephen a chemical to drink that will make him invisible. Jerry and his gang are no match for Stephen. As an invisible man, Stephen has fun pulling pranks and spying on The Jerry Dickerson Gang. After hearing what Jerry is planning, Stephen uses this information and forms his own schemes and uses The West Side Kids to fight Jerry.
Book Synopsis The West Side Kids in a Pocket Full of Wishes by : David Dorris
Download or read book The West Side Kids in a Pocket Full of Wishes written by David Dorris and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pocket Full of Wishes: This book was fun with Scooter and “Pocket!” Who can resist a genie in a bottle and a bit of magic! David Dorris never misses a one liner when he writes, and while I have heard most of them in my 59+ years, I learned a few new ones this time! My favorite was “You left your voice in my ear” said by Scooter to Hannibal. These two characters sure can sling words! Entertaining book, fun to read! Robin Rollins CEO KOEHLER ELECTRIC
Book Synopsis Our Story Jets and Sharks Then and Now by :
Download or read book Our Story Jets and Sharks Then and Now written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They came together to be rival gang members in a movie. They hadnt a clue they were creating cinematic history. WEST SIDE STORY , winner of ten Oscars including best picture. Is there anyone who doesnt know this iconic film that transcends generations? Yet very little is known about the rivaling Jets and Sharks, who were the backbone of the film and without whom there is no WEST SIDE STORY . Little if anything is known of how these gifted dancer/actor/ singers were chosen, their audition experience, how each member was hand picked by Jerome Robbins because their unique qualities fit his vision.
