January 9, 1932: Snake Hips was at Philly's Lincoln Theatre, in “Southland - the fastest, funniest, most elaborate stage production of today.”

Earl Tucker always performed in a shiny white shirt and shiny and baggy gold pants. His amazing gyrations were a precursor to modern dance styles . In the group he brought down to Philly with him that week was Wilton Crawley, a clarinetist also known for his amazingly limber acrobatic poses as he played.

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February 8, 2001: Oni Faida Lampley's one-woman show "The Dark Kalamazoo" opens at the Freedom Theatre in Philadelphia.

Based on her own experiences from her youth, when Lampley was the only African-American woman with a group of white students from Kalamazoo College, she was nicknamed "The Dark Kalamazoo" by the people of Sierra Leone.
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