POPS Performing Arts and Cultural Center

A long time supporter and friend to Pops, worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, his staff members, and his board members. As such, Jim Gordon, a resident of McCloud, CA. was then asked to write a story about MLK in the SF Sun Reporter in 1992 entitled What Would MLK Do Today? Read below: I got to thinking this week because of the Holiday, if Dr. King were alive today what would he be marching for? He started out marching to end state sponsored segregation. This worked in p...Continue reading

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents." Ludwig Van Beethoven

About 45 minutes after sunset, Jupiter and Saturn, which are more than 400 million miles apart, came together to form what is known as a Great Conjunction It was the closest the planets have been in 800 years, since 1626. This footage was taken by Tim Schrum our sound man and the telescope was set up by Devon Warner on Mt. Shasta. Thank you for capturing this amazing natural wonder.

While the music was playing at Pops, the train was rollin’ by...

Learn about Ma Rainey in a new Netflix movie. Gertrude "Ma" Rainey was one of the earliest African-American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to ... Died: December 22, 1939 (aged 53); Rome, Georgia, U.S

More than 3,400 players from seven leagues that operated from 1920 to 1948 will now be considered major leaguers in a move that will shake up the record books. https://www.nytimes.com//s/baseball/mlb-negro-leagues.html

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