Wedding News: Jurnee Smollett and Husband Josiah Bell


Jurnee Smollett, currently starring on “Friday Night Lights” and “The Defenders,” married her sweetheart Josiah Bell, in an fall ceremony that was deliberately low-key. Tucked away in a Los Angeles botanical garden Oct. 24, and surrounded by a small group of family and close friends, the 24-year-old actress exchanged nuptials with her musician boyfriend. She’s definitely not a little girl anymore. Congratulations & best wishes


Michael Kenneth Williams Returns To HBO

Michael Kenneth Williams best known for his portrayal of Omar Little, The Wire’s dealer-robbing stickup man, returned to HBO last Sunday in Terence Winter’s Scorsese-produced Boardwalk Empire, about Atlantic City during Prohibition.

The series is adapted from the book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson. Terence Winter is best known as one of the writers of the hit HBO show The Sopranos. Will you be watching?


Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work


In the documentary “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,” the comedienne, says: “When I am on stage, it is the only time I am truly happy.” Joan Rivers has more than 40 years on the comedy circuit and has always been one comedienne, I have always come to enjoy.



Pam Grier On Abuse, Blaxploitation, & The Woman She Has Become





Pam Grier revisits a career that took off in the early 1970s when she became blaxploitation cinema’s first female action hero. She is currently shooting a film with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.

Omarion Performing At Chippendale’s



Omarion showed the ladies what he’s got, when he and his crew performed on the Chippendale stage at The Rio on Super Bowl night!

The Right Ingredient—Featured Artist: Talia Coles




The Right Ingredient—Featured Artist: Talia Coles

When presented with the task of writing a feature for my site on super-talented celebrity Talia Coles, I immediately became very excited; she was the whisper in the background of certain high-profile events and the topic of discussion in various online celebrity music forum chatrooms.

Heads or tails, like flipping a coin: Most celebrities give you one image and truly are indeed another, but, at first glance, Talia Coles more than epitomizes everything you would expect from her, plus a little more.

Talia Coles has all the right ingredients, perfectly seasoned, mixed, baked, and served. A woman most certainly destined for nothing short of greatness, posed and ready to become one of 2010′s new “It” girls.
The task seemed a little difficult at first and also a little overwhelming, wanting the right feature that would quench the curiosity of a new fan but to still keep the article short and to the point so I don’t lose the attention of my reader or the message I want to convey.

My college professor’s words playing over and over like a broken record in the open black silence of my mind: “Keep it simple,” his voice would say.

Keeping it simple, I said to myself, I most certainly intend to do. Slip on your headphones; take a simple listen to the rhythmic sounds, any questions anyone has, her music will more than answer.

Her main following stems from her first single, “This Little Thing,” from her upcoming album, Clothes Minded, from her music-based content company, Couture Music, for which multifaceted Talia Coles is both founder and co-president. A song that made everyone in the clubs move, I’m talking about hands in the air, heads bobbing to the beats, ladies twisting and turning every which way—everyone, even the ones who usually never dance, were on their feet.

I must say, Talia delivers songs with such diamond-light precision, giving you everything you’d expect from a seasoned veteran, not from a newcomer, many would say, but check your history because this newcomer isn’t really new at all.

Graduating from New York’s iconic LaGuardia High School of Music and the Performing Arts, Talia immersed herself in voice, dance, and theater. Later following a path that allowed her to lend her talents to artists such as LL Cool J, Musiq Soulchild, Teddy Riley, Slim from 112, Tyler Perry, Deborah Cox, Case, Coko, as well as Irv Gotti.
Hold on!

Excuse me, folks.

I need to take this call.

The musical melody of my cell phone breaking me free of my writing trance, immediately after the phone conversation, I walk over to my laptop queuing the song loaded into my media player. “I’m Nikki Wine,” the words say, “wind it for you,” the song more relaxing than a light rain on a warm summer day, and I know others will follow, sharing my vision when “Nikki Wine” by Talia Coles featuring Elephant Man debuts on radios in early March.

With all the right ingredients, you simply just cannot fail. Talia Coles has more than proven just that.


Truthfully Speaking: Tiger Woods


There is no settled definition of rumors, and I will not attempt to offer one here, because no rumor is stronger than the truth that lies within. Scream, shout, cry, laugh, hide, run away, and feel numb, scared, and lonely. How do you think you would react if in Tiger’s shoes? There are some things in life that can only be understood when they happen to you. Ultimately all decisions relating to your life are made by you. So if you are unclear about anything, talking to close friends and family can provide enormous relief and support. Whatever it is your going through, Mr. Woods, may you get through it and become better and stronger than you were before.

Rap Diva’s Salt -N-Pepa Return




Salt-N-Pepa kick off Essence Fest with a bang

On “A Salt With A Deadly Pepa,” Salt-N-Pepa’s 1988 sophomore album, the then-24-year-old Cheryl “Salt” James rhymed, slyly, “Every curve on my body got a story to tell.”

21 years later, the trailblazing hip-hop duo sports a few more curves – and a whole lot more stories. At the time of their debut as hip-hop’s first platinum-selling female act, the barely post-adolescent MCs had an image that was saucy, bratty and tomboyish, wearing torn tees, bike shorts and door-knocker earrings. The pair that kicked off Essence Fest with “My Mic Sound Nice,” from that album, were more polished and fashionable than their younger selves – Pepa in a thigh-grazing silver mini and Salt in towering knee-high black boots – but not lacking an ounce of their trademark energy.

On the big-screen monitors, it was visible that the two rappers sported ear-to-ear grins as they strutted with a team of backup dancers. They vamped through “Expression” wearing red feather boas, and barely paused to address the audience until dedicating “Whatta Man,” their 1993 hit duet with fellow Essence performers En Vogue, to Michael Jackson.


In a situation that is now not uncommon , Salt-N-Pepa have worked out their personal issues quite publicly in recent years on reality TV. And in what was a very Essence magazine moment, the two paused to hug before tearing into their career-making 1986 hit “Push It.”


Salt took a moment to editorialize.

“There’s been a debate,” she said, “about whether ‘Push It’ is about sex, or dancing.”


“So in 2009, we’re gonna change the meaning of ‘Push It.’ We’re pushing it for all the soldiers to come home. We’re gonna push it for all the single mothers holding it down. We’re gonna push it for world peace, and for an end to gang violence in our streets.”


“And most of all, we’re gonna push it for change in America, with our new president, Barack Obama.”


Salt-N-Pepa, along with their longtime DJ Spinderella, have a new project in the works, and toward the close of the set, they debuted two tracks from that album, one entitled “Big Girls.” The song was classic Salt-N-Pepa, with vintage beats and no hint of trendy studio tricks. But more than that, maybe, it showed that a trio of forty-something moms were still nothing more than big girls, and could still rock a mic as hard – or harder – than two decades previous.


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The Celebrity Collection – Rick Gonzalez



I truly love Rick Gonzalez, I was blessed years ago to have had a chance to see him during a trip I took to New York. Not only is he an incredible actor, but is as down to earth as your next door neighbor. I feel as if I’ve grown up with him because he reminds me, in many ways, of many of my closest friends. I love all his films, each one so very different from the last, showing more of his versatility. Hopefully, I will get the feedback I want on the manuscript I just finished on him, which will be the first from my series of books entitled “The Celebrity Collection.” They will focus on actors and actresses who I believe should receive more recognition for their phenomenal talents. 


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