The Web began buzzing after news that Tina Turner would, at age 73, grace the cover of Vogue Germany’s April 2013 issue. It marks Tina’s first appearance on the glossy and for Vogue, the oldest cover model ever. Her appearance is only startling because of its severe lack of timeliness. While her professional accomplishments are obvious, [...]
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Chris Brown deleted his Twitter account on Sunday night only to return late Monday after a Twitter “war of words”with comic and writer Jenny Johnson. The back and forth between the two quickly escalated, as Johnson mistakenly assumed that Chris Brown was just another celebrity like Kim Kardashian who would just ignore the tweet. But [...]
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Yesterday, I enjoyed Sienna Miller’s performance in the HBO film The Girlwhich details the obsessive relationship Alfred Hitchcock developed for actress Tippi Hedren while filming The Birds and Marnie. While Hedren’s career fizzled after asking to be released from her contract with Hitchcock, she later gave birth to a daughter who would become actress Melanie [...]
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Posted in History, Relationships on Nov 12th, 2012
In a country where the nation’s first Black president has been elected for a second term, live two little girls whose parents just happen to be the President and the First Lady of the United States. When racial slurs began circulating the web on Tuesday from those unable to appropriately and intelligently articulate their disappointment [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, Relationships on Jul 9th, 2011
Surprise, surprise: Kim Kardashian has already begun filming content for her possible spin-off with fiance Kris Humphries. Only trouble is Kris isn’t sure if he’s going back to the New Jersey Nets. If Humphries leaves the team, the pair could possibly have to put their reality show on hold depending on the particular team’s rules [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, Relationships on Jan 12th, 2011
BET brought The Game out of retirement last night to an audience of 7.7 million viewers. It was a highly anticipated release considering The CW dropped the show in its prime leaving fans waiting for two years to see what happened next after Derwin Davis left his wedding to Melanie for the birth of his [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, Relationships on Jan 11th, 2011
Tweets between Rihanna and Nicki Minaj circulated yesterday from the set of Minaj’s new video for Fly insinuating a lesbian hookup. Whether or not the two are really involved (extremely doubtful and perhaps laughable), women in general have less of a hang up when it comes to same sex affection. I’m sure a lot of [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, Relationships on Oct 31st, 2010
When Kanye West first surfaced as a hip hop artist in February 10, 2004 with his debut album The College Dropout, he displayed the combination of cultural consciousness and skilled artistry that made people want to pay attention. Although he certainly wasn’t the first artist to talk intellectually about the struggles of black America and [...]
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