Adding a Black Guy on Downton Abbey Will Make It Even More Awesome

By now you have heard that there will be at least one black character on the new season of Downton Abbey. This is fucking exciting. Because the timeline on the show has reached the 1920s, and the 1920s were an interesting time in black history: Being black was cool.
Meet Jazz, An Impressive 11-Year Old Transgender Girl
Tonight a new documentary premieres on Oprah Winfrey's struggling network, OWN, that actually looks like it might be good. It's called I Am Jazz: A Family in Transition, and it tells the story of Jazz, an 11-year-old transgender girl. Jazz, seen above meeting her idol Chaz Bono, is wonderfully confident and simply…
The Night Ella Fitzgerald Was Arrested For "Shooting Dice"
Click here and here to read the fascinating, sad, true story about integration, jazz and the arrest of Ella Fitzgerald.
Poets, Jazz Fans Are Likely Bragging About Their Sex Lives
According to the Daily Beast, the folks having the most sex are exactly the ones you'd expect: jazz lovers, poets, and drunk people. Or maybe they're simply the ones who are pretending to get the most action?
And All That Jazz?
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Treme: 3 Things We Know About Our Favorite New Show
A teaser for HBO's new series, Treme, hit the web. Since the show's creator is David Simon, the man responsible for Homicide and The Wire, we're all a-tizzy. The clip doesn't reveal much. But here's what we do know:
