Arts Scene - Brief Article

... Pianist Marcus Roberts' latest album, The Joy of Joplin (Sony Classical, 1998), features Roberts' interpretation of eight classic Scott Joplin pieces, as well as eight original compositions that were inspired by Joplin? Two selections will be aired on the Public Broadcasting System documentary series I'll Make Me a World: A Century of African-American Arts (see item above), for which Roberts is also composing original music.

... The Food Network's The Book and the Cook Festival, held annually in Philadelphia, will once again whet its fans' appetites, this year from March 19 to 28? Several nationally known African-American cookbook authors, chefs and restaurateurs, including Tracy Hopkins (of the Philadelphia Museum of Art restaurant) and Robert and Benjamin Bynum (owners of the Zanzibar Blue and Warmdaddy's restaurants), will meet and chat with patrons. Curtis G. Aikens, author of Curtis Cooks With Heart & Soul, will also be on hand to sign his book. A concurrent culinary fair will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. For a free brochure highlighting the event and admission information, call (215) 636-3403 or (800) 537-7676. Or visit www.thebookandthecook.com on the World Wide Web.

... The Bushmen of Southern Africa are the most skilled trackers in the world? For hundreds of thousands of years, the Bushmen have followed animals, observing and interpreting footprints and trails that reveal every aspect of animal behavior. These skills, passed on to successive generations by word-of-mouth, looked set to disappear. Until, that is, South African Louis Liebenberg, in his Rolex Award-winning project, began chronicling and preserving the ancient art of tracking. To achieve this feat, he created a hand-held computer, the CyberTracker, that enables Bushmen to record their observations. This fusion of science with time-honored African methods promises to advance ecotourism and wildlife management programs.

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