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*When Mick Jagger held out his mic to the President of the United States during a Black History Month blues jam at the White House last night, the audience in the East Room got another dose of Barack Obama carrying a tune. Obama’s surprise performance came at the end of the playlist when the concert [...]
*Los Angeles – The Pan African Film and Arts Festival Filmmakers Awards Brunch prizes were handed out for Best Documentary Feature,Best Documentary Short,Best Narrative Short,Best Narrative Feature,Best First Feature Film,as well as Audience Favorite Award,on Monday,February 20th,2012.The Filmmakers Awards Brunch was hosted by Ayuko Babu,PAFF Executive Director,Wyllisa Bennett,PAFF Publicist and Venus Bernardo,PAFF Juror Co-ordinator. The [...]
*Inglewood, Calif. — Phunksters get ready for a night of some of the funkiest sounds in music featuring funk legends “The Zapp Band”, live in concert Saturday, February 25th at the Hollywood Park Casino at 3883 West Century Blvd., Inglewood, Calif. The evening kicks off at 7 p.m. with a cocktail hour and special open mic tribute session [...]
*Tickets are available to see Smokey Robinson perform at the historic Kennedy Center in Washington next month as part of the 2012 Performance Series of Legends benefit concert for DC’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Founded in 1974, the high school is the only one inside the Beltway that offers pre-professional arts training and [...]
*The Las Vegas Walk of Stars along with Duane Moody of Imagine That Entertainment Management Company and Sterling McPherson Promotions, Inc. invite the public and media to a press conference on Monday February 20, 2012 at 5:00pm inside the legendary former Mayor Oscar Goodman’s, “Oscar’s Steak House Restaurant” located at 1 Main Street, 2nd Floor [...]
*Los Angeles, CA – Roaring up on a Harley Davidson, Tyler Perry made his way to Regal Cinemas at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday evening for the premiere of his latest film, Good Deeds. Perry wrote, directed, produced and starred in the film. Although Madea could’ve conceivably arrived on the scene in the [...]
*Sanaa Lathan and Anthony Mackie are set to host the 43rd NAACP Image Awards, live from the historical Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles tomorrow, Feb. 17. The evening is expected to be a spectacular one with appearances by LL Cool J, Paula Patton, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Williams, Jordin Sparks and lots more. And this [...]
*It was a stunning red carpet, Hollywood event. Black celebrities and cast of “Think Like a Man” ushered in past the flickering camera lights at the Arclight Cinerama Dome, like film royalty. They came to support the 20th Annual Pan African Film Festival’s Opening Night Premiere February 9, 2012. As fans screamed out for celebrities [...]
*The christian community’s crazy cousins are at it again with more drama. There is one church that is known for protesting celebrity funerals, funerals for homosexuals and soldiers. They are some form of extreme right wing baptists. The Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka, Kansas, is a real nutball organization that finds it offensive that [...]
*The awards season is going full blast and so, too, are the celebrity gifting suites that lavish the rich and famous with bangles, bobbles, beads and more. One of the best and highly-anticipated gifting suites is the invitation-only 4th Annual Valentine Romance Oscar Style Lounge & Party, produced by Hollywood insider Doris Bergman in association [...]
*MiMi Plange presented her autumn/winter 2012 show in a private residential penthouse suite on the 58th floor at the ritzy Setai Fifth Avenue providing an unobstructed view of New York’s famed skyline; and her new line was as close to heaven as you’ll get on earth. The idyllic show, which took place during New York [...]
Award-winning, multi-platinum singer Mary J. Blige took to the stage last week at the Avalon/Bardot Night Club in Hollywood, in support of the partnership between Product (RED), and Belvedere, Premium Vodka. The event is a first of a series of Belvedere activities that will raise proceeds for the Global Fund, the World’s Leading Financier of [...]
*A screening for the documentary “FunkJazz Kafé: Diary of A Decade” will be held at Rave Cinemas, Friday, February 17th at 7:30pm in LA. The film is an official selection by the Pan-African Film Festival. “Diary of a Decade” conveys the evolution of Black and popular music as told by the pioneers and next generation [...]
*The show must go on! And it did. Despite of the passing of Whitney Houston, and a lot of consternation, music mogul Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammy party and showcase went on as scheduled Saturday night. There were conflicting reports that the event had been cancelled because of Whitney’s death earlier in the day. But after [...]
*Earlier reports stated that Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party had been called off because of the death of Whitney Houston. Now, however, TMZ is reporting that the party is still on … minus the man himself, Clive Davis. Our sources say Davis is currently at his home in Los Angeles. We’re told he is surrounded by [...]
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