Interview By: LeLe Symone Fluctuating stocks, a stagnant job market and doing everything to keep the bills paid….it’s safe to say that most folks are struggling to maintain personally and professionally these days. As hard as it can become, however, one of R&B’s most celebrated duos, Kindred the Family Soul, is back in the mix [...]
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Interview: Kindred the Family Soul on Their Latest Album
Interview By: LeLe Symone Fluctuating stocks, a stagnant job market and doing everything to keep the bills paid….it’s safe to say that most folks are struggling to maintain personally and professionally… [more]
Sonic Bloom : Interview : Francis Dunnery
By: Ric Hickey **unsigned the magazine repost** In his youth he vainly wore his long and flowing hair well past his shoulders, his pants tight, and his shirt open to the waist to reveal the full splendor… [more]
Interview w/: Singer Carl Thomas on his fourth CD entitled Conquer
Interview By: LeLe Symone Bad Boy Entertainment, for all of its dominance in the 90s and early 2000s, sputtered to nearly a halt a few years back after launching multiple contenders to the fields of… [more]
Interview: Lalah Hathaway on her latest CD “Where It All Begins”
Interview By: LeLe Symone With a groomed-in-the-gospel mother and a soul icon as a father, there was practically no other option for Lalah Hathaway except music. And the release of her latest CD, Where… [more]
Interview: Pam Grier – Foxy: My Life In Three Acts
By: Melody CharlesShe’s won fame and acclaim for her film roles, emboldened an entire generation of African-American women on the cusp of a civil and sexual revolution in the 60s and 70s and along… [more]
Interview: Michael Rapaport on his doc “Beats, Rhymes and Life, The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest”
Michael Rapaport: The Quest Interview By: Le Le Symone Just like there is a difference between trendy ‘rap’ and intelligent ‘hip-hop,’ these is also a difference between average dudes on… [more]
Film Review: Bernie
Film Review by: Gordon K. Smith A distant cousin to the Coen brother’s FARGO, Richard Linklater’s wickedly funny BERNIE is another black-comedy retelling of a bizarre true crime in rural America, with heavy doses of local atmosphere and dialect (with the exception that FARGO only claimed to be based on fact – it wasn’t). The stranger-than-fiction crime [...]
“ELLES” Starring Juliette Binoche Opens Friday, May 18 at the Angelika Dallas
ELLES will open at the Angelika Film Center – Dallas on May 18. Official Selection – Berlin Film Festival 2012: Panorama, Opening Night Film Official Selection – Toronto Film Festival 2011 “Female sexuality, in all its complexity, is placed under a microscope, turning Elles into a must-see film from a director whose talent has finally [...]
Theater Review: Shatner’s World: We Just Live in it…
Theater Review By: Gordon K. Smith In February 2012, William Shatner, at age 80 still finding new worlds to explore, opened his one -man show “Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It” at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre to good reviews, and three weeks later took it on the road. I caught the performance at The [...]
Film Review: John Carter
Review By: Gordon Sm Those who found AVATAR too derivative a couple of years back took to calling it DANCES WITH ALIENS – that designation is actually an even closer fit to JOHN CARTER, a similar giant-budget stranger-in-a-strange-land epic. Like DANCES WITH WOLVES, it also concerns a rebellious Civil War vet who winds up in [...]
Sonic Bloom : Interview : Francis Dunnery
By: Ric Hickey **unsigned the magazine repost** In his youth he vainly wore his long and flowing hair well past his shoulders, his pants tight, and his shirt open to the waist to reveal the full splendor of his hairy, rock star chest. Though clearly an exceptionally gifted guitarist and singer even in the earliest [...]
Interview w/: Singer Carl Thomas on his fourth CD entitled Conquer
Interview By: LeLe Symone Bad Boy Entertainment, for all of its dominance in the 90s and early 2000s, sputtered to nearly a halt a few years back after launching multiple contenders to the fields of hip-hop and R&B, one of them being its first soul and only soul man contender, Carl Thomas. After his breakout [...]
Interview: Lalah Hathaway on her latest CD “Where It All Begins”
Interview By: LeLe Symone With a groomed-in-the-gospel mother and a soul icon as a father, there was practically no other option for Lalah Hathaway except music. And the release of her latest CD, Where It All Begins, only cements the righteousness of that enviable legacy. “What keeps me going is my passion for music,” said [...]
