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For MLK Day: A Preview of Coming Attractions

Martin Luther King Day couldn’t be a better timed or more appropriate day to announce our upcoming blitz of African-American related content on Travalanche for Black History Month (February). We try to observe it every year — sometimes I get it together to do a post on an African American artist or a related topic every day of the month, sometimes it’s just a few. This year there will be a huge number of posts added, most of it television related, as we have been drawing from the huge cache of vintage TV Guides we lucked into. So look for at least a post a day, sometimes more. Meantime, you can peruse the section and it’s 332 posts today. By the end of February, we may have 400!

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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.