Midwest Masala

Jyoti Mukharji. Photography by Kelly Powell.

Food is love. Just ask Jyoti Mukharji.  “In India, we don’t express our love in words,” she says. In the Western world, Mukharji explains, everybody says I love you. “You tell your parents that. You tell your friends that. You tell your children. In India, nobody talks that way. It’s never expressed in that way.… Continue reading Midwest Masala

The Forgotten History of a Leading Lesbian Jazz Trumpeter Driven from KC

Photo courtesy of International Sweethearts of Rhythm Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

There’s no argument about whether Tiny Davis could play at an elite level. The jazz trumpeter and vocalist was labeled the “female Louis Armstrong.” As a member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an all-woman big band in the era of the Second World War, she went on to tour and record with her own… Continue reading The Forgotten History of a Leading Lesbian Jazz Trumpeter Driven from KC