August 2011

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[caption id="attachment_970" align="aligncenter" width="251" caption="BET Awards '06: Partners At Every Stage"][/caption] This post is really a quick congratulations to King B and Young Hov on expecting their first child. I tend not to swerve into gossip blog lanes but I couldn't help notice how fast the attention came away from Kim Humphries' recent wedding! When it comes to big news, the biggest entertainer since the incomparable Michael Jackson (yeah, I said it long before her husband did-click here) runs the celebrity media world! With one embrace of her bump in her gorgeous red gown on their black carpet, Beyoncé turned the VMAs into...

30 August, 2011 /

Nickolas 'Nick' Ashford 1941-2011 Anger bubbled inside me upon learning that one of the world's seminal soul and pop music voices was silenced by throat cancer at the age of 70 on August 22, 2011. Nickolas 'Nick' Ashford truly wrote the words that made the whole world fall in love. And I was literally pissed off that the same disease who claimed the earthly life of my mother had taken also taken his. And then, I had to take a moment and rethink my reaction. Nick Ashford spent his life providing everyone within the reach of his pen, the sound of his voice--with...

25 August, 2011 /

[caption id="attachment_952" align="aligncenter" width="768" caption="Radio host, show producer/engineer and media maven. Cherry's at the top of her game!"][/caption]   Cherry Martinez made an indelible first impression on me as a jock in Los Angeles in the '90s. Her playful but assertive voice cut through the airwaves because she didn't have an 'L.A.' accent. A proud representative of Honduras educated in Boston, (Emerson College degree in Communications), Cherry is much more than another voice on the air; she commands the boards as she holds down the 10pm-2am slot on New York's Power 105.1. After reconnecting with her on Twitter a decade later, I...

03 August, 2011 /