Archive for September, 2015
By Artists and Healers May 30, 1944 – June 9, 2015 Anna Elizabeth Stanley Artist, Scholar, Civil Rights Worker, Agitator, Spiritualist, Humanitarian, and fiercely, loving Friend to hundreds of people
Anna Stanley playfully “framing” Rafala Green as they interwove humor and intense social activism in their artistic lives. They also interwove various art forms in their many endeavors. It would thrill them to see “Touchstone” Plaza used often as a “Amen Corner” venue straight out of James Baldwin”'s play of the same name. BY BETH PETERSON Greatest of Thanks and Salutations to my friend Anna Elizabeth Stanley for her powerful work and great presence in the world and for her contribution to mask making, education, the fight for civil rights, justice, and perseverance of the spirit. Recently at the South Los Angeles Powerfest, artist Al McKie of Newhood Order was printing 100 tee shirts free for the community with the message “I like Peace, but I love Justice”. These words embody the practice many saw in action through the life of Anna Stanley. Born in Philadelphia, Anna grew up amidst many experiences both great and terrible. [...]
“Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos”. So Bad its Good
BY SUE HUNTER WEIR Wow! I think that everyone who attended “Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos” would agree that their reaction was “Wow!” One thing”'s for sure, you won”'t see a movie like this one every day. It was quite possibly one of the worst and funniest movies ever made. Local wrestler, Spider Baby, gave a stirring introduction, and a handful of diehard fans came wearing their Santo and Blue Demon masks which helped to get all of us into the spirit of the thing. Superhero “Santo” and his best friend “The Blue Demon” had to battle the bad guys, and there were a lot of them: Frankenstein, a vampire, a mummy, a werewolf and the cheesiest-looking Cyclops ever to walk the earth. The bad guys messed up when they kidnapped our hero”'s girlfriend (you have to picture Frankenstein driving a getaway car). And even though the bad guys had created an evil duplicate of the Blue Demon, it didn”'t take long for [...]
“The Tribune and I Swat the Fly”
”¢ Dr. Holl was born in New Ulm on August 19, 1862--on the very day that the Dakota Conflict came to New Ulm. His mother must have been in labor during the battle.”¢ Newspapers always spelled his name Hall that people would know how to pronounce it and it made him sound a little more American.”¢ Dr. Holl was voted out of his post by the city council in 1913 despite a letter of support signed by more than 100 doctors in the city. While in private practice for the next five years he wrote an informative daily column on health and medicine, “Health and Happiness,” for the Minneapolis Tribune.”¢ In 1918 he accepted the post of superintendent of Minnesota”'s Ah-Gwah-Ching Tuberculosis Sanitorium near Walker. He remained in that position until his death in 1928.”¢ He was an amazing, if somewhat eccentric, man. He and Annie only had one daughter and she died in infancy--the baby is buried in Layman”'s. Peter and Annie are at Hillside with [...]
