‘Last Night at Mikell’s’ with James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and Miles Davis

‘Last Night at Mikell’s’ with James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and Miles Davis

LOS ANGELES — Just about the highest praise I could heap on Larry Muhammad’s Last Night at Mikell’s is that it was well worth enduring the pre-curtain bother and wait to experience it. I’ll spare the details about the hectic opening night performance on Sat., April 19, but suffice it to say, about 35 minutes late, Last Night at Mikell’s commenced. This stellar production proved, as said, to be well worth the inconveniences. With a bar, tables, c…

The debate that civil rights activist James Baldwin conducted in Cambridge in 1965 with the arch-conservative publisher William F. Buckley was staged at the Berlin Schaubühne Das Wort Debatte, is it irretrievable to euphemism for a conversational conversation in political discourse? Originating from the French, it means "to beat the opponent with words." But who still wants to expose his firm conviction to intellectual blows? For example, an Erz…