Eli Scarr

views are my own /CEASEFiRE NOW/ a debaser? nope / meditating /LIVE music enthused - multigenre /highbrow like AD /tacos/ Appalshop futuras / ((rehydrating))

[Eli Scarr @eli_scarr]

My 2013 independent documentary, BACK IN THE WINGS: FREDDIE DUNN'S LEXINGTON, streams via PBS affiliate Kentucky Educational Television:
https://t.co/lAMUjU0BQE
#NKAA

[KET @KET]

Now streaming: Lexington, Ky., native Freddie Dunn recounts his youth and young adulthood. Archival photos complement Mr. Dunn's detailed perspective of the African American experience in Kentucky during the 1940s and 1950s. https://t.co/U00L9iuY6Y

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

David Hockney (1937-2026)

Stills from Jack Hazan’s documentary 'A Bigger Splash' (1973)

[NBA @NBA]

A Championship-level dime from the newest @emirates NBA Cup Champ, KAT 🔥

[Eli Scarr @eli_scarr]

@TeaKaGee Local music festival marketing
https://t.co/tiy8v2TBkd

[Railbird Festival @RailbirdFest]

The crew's all here 🤠

📸: Andrea Escobar Garcia

[Eli Scarr @eli_scarr]

ETHICS > antiquated notions of financial wealth justifying bestowed status

[Eli Scarr @eli_scarr]

@TeaKaGee nope. workin'

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

Children can’t vote, but their hunger is real. Yet, once again, Gov. Brian Kemp has refused to help — vetoing funding for summer nutritional assistance. Georgia families are struggling to afford groceries, rent and health care, and this would be a lifeline. During this election season remember that your elected officials should serve you and the needs of your community. If you're in need of assistance, visit: https://t.co/7Na8k7bgNp

[Sleeper76ers @sleeper76ers]

Allen Iverson OTD in 2001:

🔥 48 PTS
🔥 6 AST
🔥 5 REB
🔥 5 STL
🔥 18/41 FG
🔥 3/8 3PT

Ended the Lakers’ 11-game playoff win streak with one of the most iconic performances ever. 🙌

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Shut them all down, we can live without AI data centers we can’t live without clean water.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

3/3 Kahle argues that libraries help create an informed citizenry by preserving books, films, music, and historical records across generations.

“Our evolving digital age can be our next Carnegie moment or it can be a Library of Alexandria moment. It is up to us.”

Read Kahle's essay and much more in VANISHING CULTURE.
📖 Download & read: https://t.co/SQPdTHqZjo
🛒 Purchase in print: https://t.co/sqAY6ckFmv

@InternetArchive @Brewster_Kahle #VanishingCulture #InternetArchive #Libraries #DigitalPreservation

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

🧵1/3 What happens when libraries can no longer preserve the knowledge they collect? 📚⚠️

Brewster Kahle warns that the systems connecting libraries, readers, and cultural memory are becoming dangerously fragile as publishers replace ownership with temporary access.

Read the essay Preserving the Library System by Brewster Kahle, part of VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive.

🔗 https://t.co/tjoVGTQ2d6

[Vic Vaiana @vicvaiana]

All this in just 4 years.

Remember when they insisted it was impossible to build green infrastructure quickly enough

[ᒪᗩᑎE @lanechanged]

Let me get this straight... they want us to willingly give up all our water to the thing that's about to put everyone out of work??

Say what now?

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

[🔻 @atlajala]

my question now is where are the Sonny Rollins super 8mm films. the world needs to see those.

[Eli Scarr @eli_scarr]

MS. NORA WILLIAMS FROM MADDOXTOWN
Community Tuesday 
documentary presentation 

The Lyric Theatre
& Cultural Arts Center 
Tuesday, May 26th
6:00 p.m.

https://t.co/Smrb9RM8H5
#Kentucky #KentuckyHistory

[Eli Scarr @eli_scarr]

my next documentary details 1961 NBA pre-season incident at the Phoenix Hotel

Denied service at hotel coffee shop, Celtics and St. Louis Hawks players together boycotted the exhibition game. Their civil protest hastened desegregation of public accomodations in downtown Lexington

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

[Eli Scarr @eli_scarr]

@TeaKaGee Frederick Douglass: An American Life, directed by William Greaves, was released in 1985. The 16mm film has been part of public programming at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Cedar Hill, in Washington, DC.

https://t.co/gE4On9Qdlb

[Eli Scarr @eli_scarr]

Before closing in 1963, the theatre returned to its roots as a movie theatre, featuring horror films and black cowboy movies plus Saturday morning cartoons.
- text from 'The Lyric Theatre, A Brief History' information card

image: Lexington Herald, 4-18-1963

[Eli Scarr @eli_scarr]

The Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center
Lexington, Kentucky
A Brief History

Vibrant. Alive. The place to be and be seen. Between 1948 and 1963, the Lyric Theatre was a thriving entertainment centerpiece for Lexington's African-American families. 🧵 

https://t.co/Smrb9RM8H5

[Eli Scarr @eli_scarr]

Entertainment wasn't the only draw. Numerous small black-owned businesses were launched in and around the theatre.

Educator Sanford T. Roach, Dunbar High School teacher and coach, then principal of Carver Elementary, managed an ice cream parlor next door.
https://t.co/WbGIZ4xp8R

[Eli Scarr @eli_scarr]

Lyric Theater
“Rock & Roll Revue”

On Stage - In Person
Featuring The Flairs, Butterbeans & Susie, Tawney, Gene Ammons and his Rock & Roll Band

image: Lexington Herald newspaper, 6-20-1956

[Eli Scarr @eli_scarr]

Everyone has a favorite memory - the movies, fashion shows, vaudeville acts, local concerts, pageants - but during the '50s it was Jazz, Soul and R&B music that took center stage, with big-name acts like Ray Charles and Count Basie.

image: Lexington Herald newspaper, 10-23-1949