Words Of The Wisdomless: Hungry

Words Of The Wisdomless: Hungry-

"Those that force themselves to be in the limelight end up getting their just dessert... A mud pie"

-By Chato B Stewart

The wife of Monkees vocalist Micky Dolenz was arrested Friday

By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writer David B. Caruso, Associated Press Writer – 

NEW YORK – The wife of Monkees vocalist Micky Dolenz was arrested Friday on charges that she defrauded an affordable housing program in New York City.

Authorities in the city's Department of Investigation said Donna Quinter, 54, illegally received $136,866 in government rental subsidies for an apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

The subsidies were supposed to go to middle-income families living in the city year-round who were in danger of being forced out by gentrification.

Investigators say Quinter failed to disclose that she was sharing the apartment with a friend who paid rent. The home also wasn't her only residence. Since marrying Dolenz in 2002, the former flight attendant has lived with her husband in Bell Canyon, Calif., an exclusive gated community outside Los Angeles.

Quinter surrendered to authorities in New York on Friday morning. She was expected to be arraigned later on larceny charges in a Manhattan court. see more here-

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A nation needs its own art

Review of the January 19th published interview in The New York Times - Art -Kenya section by SHEILA RULE

''A nation needs its own art''...a recent statement by Joseph Odindo, a Kenyan arts critic.
He is involved in changing the music scene.

With huge "outside" Western influences, many local and traditional musicians are finding it difficult to get their own venue.

Joseph Odindo continues, ''The tragedy with the Kenyan situation is that musicians who use native languages, clearly inspired by the needs of the people around them, have been relegated to second place, while records from outside the country are given lavish promotion by the media."

You know it's pretty bad when Jermaine Jackson gets top billing over any of the local or national musicians or groups. Promoters sell to have seats filled not necessarily to promote their own. That is the point I get out of the interview with Joseph Odindo. ''The repeated playing of these records on radio eventually cultivates in listeners a taste for such tones, in a typical advertising jingle effect,'' he continued. ''A Western tune becomes familiar and eventually likable, where it would ordinarily have gone unnoticed.''

Unless the value of the local music becomes worth more than just the money it brings in, little hope exists for it to recapture the hearts of greedy promoters!