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*Queen Latifah arrived with her royal court to an amped and enthusiastic crowd of subjects summoned to celebrate the 29th Annual Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival on Saturday, May 19. The annual event held in Long Beach, California boasts of drawing approximately 100,000 attendees each year, making it the 2nd largest Pride festival [...]
*(Via LA Times) – Relaxed yet lively, the byplay in “Think Like a Man”has some of the spark of director Tim Story‘s “Barbershop” a decade ago. The movie may be the very definition of contrivance, coming as it does from the blithely sexist relationship guide “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” co-written by [...]
*A decade ago, Steven Soderbergh won an Academy Award for Traffic, a multi-layered potboiler highlighting the hypocrisy and corruption permeating political bureaucracies entrusted with waging the war on drugs. With Contagion, the iconoclastic director has fashioned another international mindbender, although the focus this go-round is on the medical community’s attempt to allay the public’s fears [...]
*When I sat down to listen to Hamid Cooper’s latest album The Spirit Filled Latin Jazz, I was completely blindsided by its melodic infusion of Africa, Cuba, traditional Jazz and how Cooper’s own Middle Eastern heritage adds a distinct flavor to the sound. After my third listen it was off to Google to learn more [...]
*When three best friends meet for drinks after work one evening, each shares a tale of woe worse than the next about his boss from hell. Dale (Charlie Day) complains about how his, Dr. Julia Harris (Jennifer Aniston), has been pressuring him to sleep with her, despite the fact that he’s head-over-heels in love with [...]
*VH1′s new “Single Ladies” series starring LisaRaye McCoy and Stacey Dash made its debut Monday night via a 2-hour premier movie and the critics are weighing in. One of them, the Washington Post’s Hank Stuever, has written his review and, umm, basically, we don’t think he liked what he saw. “‘Single Ladies’ is embarrassing to [...]
*Jason Taylor (Laz Alonso), a rising star at Goldman Sachs’ Manhattan office, never introduced any of his friends or family members to his relatively-refined fiancée, Sabrina Watson, (Paula Patton), the whole time they were dating. After all, her high-falutin’ parents (Angela Bassett and Brian Stokes Mitchell) have a mansion up on Martha’s Vineyard, so he’s [...]
Recently Talib Kweli and David Banner held forth and represented hip hop to the fullest at LA’s Club Nokia. EURweb’s Darryl Yates eye-witnessed what went down and has this report: *It still amazes to me to see the ability of real lyricists. Being able to think two steps ahead and create a song perfectly syncopated [...]
*KEM knows how to make love to an audience. Through his lyrics he sends love songs to the women in the audience, singing sweet nothings in their ears, while at the same time making each one believe he’s singing only to her. He demonstrated the ability recently when his 2011 ‘Intimacy Tour’ rolled through Los [...]
*This Marvel Comics superhero adventure because it revolves around a foul-mouthed, 11 year-old heroine who takes delight in spilling the blood of every last one of her evil adversaries. Plus, other underage characters are depicted engaging in a variety of morally-objectionable activities ranging from premarital sex to smoking Marijuana to sadistic slaughter. So, this movie [...]
The 7th Annual West Oak Lane Jazz & Arts Festival in Philadelphia introduced a new wrinkle into their lineup this year, the Jazz Hang Suite, and the headliners on its inaugural night were none other than Philly Soul artists Kindred the Family Soul. The husband and wife duo of Fatin and Aja Graydon Dantzler took [...]
“Sex and the City 2″ Bottom Line: Overlong sequel scores some choice, politically incorrect laughs. *Because the first “Sex and the City” movie turned out to be a boxoffice bonanza two years ago, there are a lot of women panting for the sequel, already planning their wardrobe for a girls’ night out. So even if [...]
“By examining the persona of five African-American women celebrities, Divas [on Screen] seeks to push the discussion of African-American celebrity beyond the ‘good, politically progressive role model’ versus ‘bad, regressive black stereotype,’ binary that stifles dialogue and divides scholars. Instead, the ensuing chapters address how African-American celebrity functions as a social phenomenon. This is not [...]
*Why We Laugh is a must-see documentary selected for the 2009 Sundance festival, which has experts in the field deciphering black comedy. It features extended interviews with such luminaries as Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Whoopi Goldberg and Steve Harvey. The interviews are punctuated by hilarious clips from an 80-year history of black comedy covering stand [...]
*The Arcola is a small theatre in Dalston Junction, an area of London with a reputation for being deprived. In its UK premiere, it was a fitting location to revive this play, following its 1994 debut in LA. where writer and Oscar nominated actor, Laurence Fishburne, directed and starred in the production. This is a [...]
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