Day: April 12, 2008

US EVENT – TY SET TO PERFORM @ KNITTING FACTORY (NEW YORK)

April 12, 2008

              Respected UK rapper and recent Spitkicker inductee Ty, will be performing at the Knitting Factory in New York this Sunday (April 13th), along side Taylor Mcferrin and Mobius Collective.  So if you happen to be in the NY area on Sunday, I highly recommend that you check out this show.   Details: Knitting Factory, (Main Space), 74 Leonard Street, New York, NY, Tel: 212 219 3006, http://www.knittingfactory.com All Ages / $12 adv // $15 door Text: TYUK to 467467 […]

AFRICAN AMERICAN WINS MISS USA 2008

April 12, 2008

Photograph: AP A 26-year-old entrepreneur from Texas was named Miss USA on Friday, besting 50 other beauty queens for the coveted crown. Crystle Stewart, of Missouri City, Texas, runs a party-planning and motivational speaking company, as well as modeling professionally. She says she wants to dedicate her life to international philanthropy. “I want to talk to people about how to set a goal and achieve it,” she told The Associated Press after the show. “Because I just achieved my goal.” Continue Reading […]

SAD NEWS OF THE DAY: JIM JONES’ MOVIE ‘WHO’S DEAL?’, RELEASE DATE PUSHED BACK

April 12, 2008

Last week I posted the movie trailer of Jim Jones’ new film ‘Who’s Deal?’, which also stars Elise Neal. Within hours of me posting it, the trailer could be seen on other black entertainment news sites all over the Internet and was then universally panned for being the longest running trailer ever made and noted for it’s bad editing, bad sound, the appauling performances from the actors featured, signalling out Elise Neal in particular, and the typo in the film’s title – ‘Who’s Deal?’ should in fact read as ‘Whose Deal?’ Word must have got back to the […]