Introduced by her proud brother, Craig Robinson and watched from the crowd by her even prouder mother, Marion Robinson, our presumptive First Lady Michelle Obama assumed the stage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in grounded elegance. Appearing nervous at first, she soon hit her stride and delivered a speech that was spot-on, reaffirming what [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Shellie O
August 26, 2008
O Wear
August 22, 2008
As we draw nearer to Election Day, the Obama campaign website will, as of next month, offer up designer duds (of the CFDA variety) from talents like Tracy Reese, Issac Mizrahi and formerly staunch Hillary supporter, Diane Von Furstenberg. It will be interesting to see how this move shapes public perception. Though my personal preference [...]
Chili Most
August 22, 2008
I gotta give props to my hometown hot dog haven, Ben’s Chili Bowl, on fifty years of business. On August 22, 1958, Trinidadian immigrant, Ben Ali launched his restaurant at 1213 U Street in northwest Washington, DC in a 1910 building that once housed the Minnehaha Theater. Playing local venues, musicians and comedians frequented the [...]
Summer @ SONYA
August 20, 2008
This Thursday, South of the Navy Yard Artists (SONYA), a non-profit collective of Brooklyn-based visual artists, opens their show Summer @ SONYA. Curated by artist Kennis Baptiste, the exhibition includes more than twenty-eight works created this year and/or inspired by the summer of 2008 in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and photography by seventeen emerging and [...]
Omar + Lila
August 20, 2008
Though he landed on the UK music scene in about 1990, Omar Lye-Fook first registered on my radar when his For Pleasure dropped in 1994 and I fell in musical love (as did Angie Stone, Common, Erykah Badu, Estelle, even Stevie Wonder, all of whom have recorded with him.) The velvet-voiced multi-instrumentalist was a fresh [...]
pb & Caviar
August 19, 2008
Tucked away on Manhattan’s Thomas Street, in the shadow of the looming Art Deco edifice which once housed Western Union, an airy boutique has opened to cater to the beauty and sartorial needs of women and their small children. Evin Cosby, the youngest daughter of Bill and Camille recently launched pb & Caviar just around [...]
Flibbertigibbetry
August 18, 2008
After the well-regarded choreographer Doug Elkins became a father, he made a choice to shutter his dance company to free his time to be with his new family. Nevertheless, he and his wife parted ways and a few years ago amid a despairing funk over the demise of his marriage and the loss of his [...]
Gone Too Soon
August 13, 2008
I, like most of us was stunned this weekend by the news of comedian Bernie Mac’s early death at age 50 and that of music icon Issac Hayes the very next day at age 65. I recalled the 2006 passings, one day apart, of revered journalist Ed Bradley, age 65 and singer Gerald Levert, age [...]
Thurgood: Just Days Left
August 8, 2008
As I mentioned in a previous blogpost, Thurgood on Broadway is a must-see! If you can fit it into your schedule, do, you won’t be disappointed. The show is in its last days (through August 17) at the Booth Theatre and I received the following discount ticket info from marketing maven, Donna Walker-Kuhne.
SPECIAL $60* OFFER [...]
08.08.08
August 8, 2008
Considered auspicious in many traditions, the number eight symbolizes luck, divinity and renewal. So on this day I find myself thinking of the pending ‘08 election and the real possibility of Senator Barack Obama becoming President Obama, heralding a fresh beginning for our country, and indeed the world. The America reviled by many across the [...]
