February 2007
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Janet Jackson: Resurrecting Her Future
02.28.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsJanet Jackson set to star in Tyler Perry’s next movie, “Why Did I Get Married.”
Acting isn’t new to Janet; with such credits on television as Good Times, Diff’rent Stroke & Fame along with big screen hits, Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps and Poetic Justice.
After the Super Bowl incident Janet’s career has never been the same (SIDE NOTE: [...]Popularity: 9% [?]
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Entertainment, Thought
Bobby Brown Arrested, Again
One thing Bobby Brown should know by now: Stay away from cheering competitions. The last time Bobby got arrested in Boston it was at a cheerleader competition. Why should this time be any different?
Mr. Brown, former R&B star, has been put behind bars after the lack of child support payments. As if this is anything [...]Popularity: 6% [?]
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Politics, Thought
Nigger, Nigga: From the Original to the Remix
NYC Council Member Leroy G. Comrie Jr. is leading the charge on the ban of the N-Word. After hearing black youth on a street in queens it seems as though with what time he has on his hands will introduce a bill to ban the word.
This day in age many youth don’t understand the impact [...]Popularity: 11% [?]
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Movies, Thought
Why I Care about the Oscars!
Jennifer Hudson won. What more reason do I need than that? No longer will her title be former American Idol contestant. She can put that behind her now. She is now Academy Award Winner Jennifer Hudson. Eat your heart out Pop Tart Beyonce (oh what a title that is).
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Eddie Murphy vs. Eddie Murphy: Why he won’t win the Oscar?
Eddie Murphy has finally gotten the chance in lifetime and blown it all in the same year. In what had seemed to be sure when may be the end of the Oscar journey. After receiving both the SAG and Golden Globe award for the best role I’ve every seen Eddie Murphy in to date he [...]
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Advertising, Thought
The New Face of Beauty?
This past Sunday, while looking through the paper, I came across the most shocking advertising I’ve ever seen. On the back of the Life Magazine was an ad. What I thought was my grandmother on the back of the paper (I was going crazy to think she was stripping for cash) is actually a Dove ad about anti-aging [...]
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Movies
Norbit: Why shouldn’t you see it?
After reading bad reviews about the movie Norbit I had to take the opportunity to see it. After all, I never trust film critics when it comes down to an Eddie Murphy (I probably should have said Academy Award Nominee, oh, I just did… LOL) movie.
If you have high hopes and looking for a gut [...]Popularity: 9% [?]
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Business, Thought
To Be Ignored or Followed? That is the question.
It is an interesting experience to go shopping these days rather than ten years ago. For one, ten years ago the moment you walked in the store people were all over you asking, “Can I help you?” Not actually asking cause they cared to ask but for the simple fact that the manager wanted them [...]
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Music
yourmusic.com
If you actually purchase music and have a lot of patience then point your browser to yourmusic.com. With the outrageous prices of CD’s these days I’d wait six months for a good discount. yourmusic.com offers CD’s for $6.99 (one more dollar than last year). There is a monthly subscription of the same price which amounts to [...]
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In The News
The Army Goes Hip-Hop
The United States Army is fighting a new war. A war on American soil. The war against drunk driving. How will the government win the war? They’ll open a Hip-Hop night club.
With the alarming rise in drunk driving deaths of soldiers stationed at Georgia’s Fort Stewart Army Base the government has spent $300,000 to renovate a old sports bar. [...]Popularity: 15% [?]
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Technology
iPod for Toddlers
Coming to a store near you the Peapod. It’s the iPod for babies and toddlers. The item was featured at the toy show in NYC. Expected to hit shelves by late spring.
Now something for every preschooler to fight over. Let’s hope its as safe as it should be.
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Music, Relationships
Irreplaceable - When Lyrics Make No Sense
02.15.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI’m all for hit songs but when you send a message that causes people to make stupid decisions then someone has got to say something.
Irreplaceable, a hit song played on all the radio stations across the city happened to catch my ear as I was showering. It wasn’t my first time hearing the song however [...]Popularity: 32% [?]
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