Jeff MacGregor
Writer-at-Large at Smithsonian Magazine
Writer-at-Large, @SmithsonianMag #FreeEvan PEN America Orwell Society RSF CPJ NWU BWAA
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Aug 28, 2024 |
smithsonianmag.com | Jeff MacGregor
The Chinese American artist left a breathtaking legacy that ranged from fine art to Disney movies to Christmas cards Tyrus Wong arrived in San Francisco from China in 1920 as a 10-year-old who loved calligraphy. By the end of the next decade, he was working for Disney, on his way to becoming one of America’s greatest immigrant success stories.
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Apr 3, 2024 |
smithsonianmag.com | Jeff MacGregor |Chris Gunn
For some 14 years he labored in solitude. Lovingly. Obsessively. Every night after work, in a rented garage on 7th Street NW in Washington, D.C., James Hampton, a World War II veteran and janitor for the General Services Administration with no artistic training, methodically built what he came to call The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly. Hampton prepared the throne to receive Jesus, flanked by a dozen angels, at the time of the Second Coming.
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Jan 4, 2024 |
smithsonianmag.com | Brandon Tensley |Jeff MacGregor
They gathered one afternoon in late October of 1960, at the Atlantic Records studios in a nondescript building at 234 West 56th Street in New York: pianist McCoy Tyner, just 21, a prodigy from Philadelphia; Steve Davis, upright bass, 31, also from Philly; and Elvin Jones, at 33 a veteran drummer who had played with everyone from Art Farmer and Pepper Adams to Gil Evans and Miles Davis.
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Jan 4, 2024 |
flipboard.com | Jeff MacGregor
They gathered one afternoon in late October of 1960, at the Atlantic Records studios in a nondescript building at 234 West 56th Street in New York: …
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Jul 25, 2023 |
theathletic.com | Jeff MacGregor |Pete Sampson |Hannah Alberga |Justin Garcia
It is one of those heady questions that has launched a thousand sports business conferences:What is the future of televised sports? With traditional television hemorrhaging households, the abysmal state of the advertising market, and the depressing drumbeat of media job layoffs, the answer to the question remains in constant flux.
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