The collective groan you hear is Ebony magazine’s subscribers reacting to Amy Dubois Barnett decision to lace Real Housewives of Atlanta star Nene Leakes with a cover. The Annual December/January Power 100 Issue hits newsstands next week.
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Collectible colored ”Diamonds” vinyl remixes, an 11 x 17 handwritten personal note from Rihanna, a 2GB credit card-style USB flash drive, a unisex shirt with a Michael Muller photo of Rihanna taken during her Unapologetic album shoots, seven 12 x 15 lithographs featuring Muller photos, a Magnus Voll Mathiassen illustration and other exclusive Unapologetic images: what $250 will get you if you buy Rihanna’s limited edition 7th studio album in December.
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Hurricane Sandy has landed in NYC for real. Parts of Lower Manhattan are under water according photos and reports filed on Twitter, The Office of Emergency Management is blowing up peoples phones with text messages advising us to stay indoors until further notice.
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I thought didn’t feel any particular way about Zoe Zaldana as Nina Simone in the upcoming Cynthia Mort biopic. The film is supposed to be about the fictional, romantic relationship between Simone and her gay manager.Mort was the writer for Will & Grace, the hit NBC tv sitcom from the 90s about the friendship between a straight white woman and her gay best friend in NYC. So.
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Simon Doonan, the sharp and stylish ambassador for NYC fashion powerhouse Barney’s, has some Halloween party ideas that are hurricaine proof. Doonan teamed up with vitner Ravenswood and has some sugestions to make your annual scarefest a hit. Faves below.
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Singer and songwriter Frank Ocean turns 25 today. The Odd Future member is in Maui with his crew and was photographed on a beach on the Hawaiian island by his manager Kelly Clancy. Love the floral shorts and Footlocker-esque shirt.
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Queens, NY native Alice Mizrachi caught our attention about half a decade ago after the artist, educator, curator and community organizer co-foundedYOUNITY, a Collective which gives voice, education and more, to women artists who seek entry to the labyrinthine world of art.
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The message last night at the Moynihan Station in NYC’s Midtown West was clear: Samsung ain’t nuthin to fuck with.
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Legendary DJ Ron G hosts an incredible mixtape in the form of United States of Blood Diamonds: Volume 1, an African mixtape featuring some of the continent’s best and brightest rhyming over familiar beats.
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Legendary NYC graffiti artist Futura 2000 said that his fear and misunderstandings of gays in the 1980s cost him a collaboration with pop artist and popular homosexual Andy Warhol.
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Former New York Knick star Jeremy Lin is the November cover star of American GQ, wearing a well nice Calvin Klein suit. Some bloggers have said that the cover was a waste but they’re probably writing from the Agent of Yellow Peril.
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Long story short, Dr. Dre is IN for electronics but that Detox album is still a pipe dream and therefore OUT. That’s because the good doctor is on his way to making his dream of becoming the Steve Jobs of hip-hop come true.
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