Archive for June, 2008
Posted on June 30, 2008 with 1 Comment
Zoe Kravitz, Lenny & Lisa’s actress daughter, is featured in Vanity Fair’s Hollywood’s Next Wave issue.
Photographed by Mark Seliger for the magazine, Kravitz, who costarred with Jodie Foster in The Brave One and will next star in Assassination of a High School President, appears with other up-and-comers Christopher Mintz-Plasse (aka “McLovin) and Emma Stone (aka Jules) of Superbad, and Olivia Thirlby of Juno.
Here are some snippets from Zoe’s interview:
Favorite lip gloss? Kiehl’s lip balm.
Style icon? “Jimi Hendrix. He’s rad.”
Justin Timberlake or John Mayer? Jeff Buckley.
Rihanna or Carrie Underwood? Billie Holiday.
What’s on your iPod? “Oh God, everything. Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, Feist, Fiona Apple, Jimi Hendrix.”
Posted on June 28, 2008 with No Comments
Florida indie rock band Black Kids (contrary to their cheeky name, only lead singer Reggie Youngblood and his younger sister Ali are black) took the stage at Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, Somerset.
During their set, the band (who Rolling Stone listed in their Artists to Watch feature in 2007) played their hits, ‘I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You’ and ‘Hit The Heartbreaks.” Keyboardist Dawn Watley, according to NME, asked the crowd: “Are you naked?”
We’d drop trow to hear them play, “Hurricane Jane.”
PHOTO: Courtesy of Rolling Stone
Posted on June 28, 2008 with No Comments
A Los Angeles high schooler on the annual yearbook staff printed fake names (including ‘Tay Tay Shaniqua’) for the school’s black student union in their published yearbook, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Posted on June 26, 2008 with No Comments
Ivory Coast native Morou Outtara and Ethiopian-born Marcuss Samuelsson are the latest culinary artists infusing the American palate with bold flavors from Africa.
Outtara peppers the food at his Virginia restaurant, Farrah Olivia, with flavors from his West African homeland and thinks America is ready for the new tastes.
“For six, seven years now people are playing with the idea of African food, and people are now starting to accept it,” Outtara said in an interview with Philly.com.
“It’s been gradually happening,” said Samuelsson, who opened the New York pan-African restaurant Merkato 55. “You are now seeing those [North African and Arab spices] like harissa, za’atar and dukka showing up on menus.”
And to help the spices make their way into the American kitchen, Samuelsson launched Afrikya, a line of African spices. The North African and Middle Eastern spice combination of poppy seeds and rose was even named one of the Top 10 flavor pairings for 2008 by McCormick & Co.
Posted on June 26, 2008 with No Comments
In the last six years, new cases of HIV and AIDS has not only risen sharply among young men (ages 13 to 24), but it has doubled among young black males who are having sex with other men, according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
New diagnoses among black men from age 13 to 24 has risen to 1,811 in 2006 from 938 in 2001.
“It’s a grim report,” Dr. Ronald Stall, an epidemiologist and professor of public health, told the New York Times.
Dr. Richard Wolitski, acting director of the C.D.C.’s Division of H.I.V./AIDS Prevention, added, “Because of the new treatments, some men perceive it to be a less severe disease than it once was. And this is a new generation that hasn’t been personally affected in the same way that older men have been.”
Posted on June 26, 2008 with No Comments
James Blake and Venus and Serena Williams are among the nine players named to the U.S. Olympic tennis team. In August, they will be heading to China to represent America at the 2008 Olympic Summer Games.
The Olympic tennis tournament will be staged from August 10-17 at Beijing’s Olympic Green Tennis Center, with Blake and Venus playing singles and doubles, and Serena playing doubles.
At the 2000 Games, the Williams sisters became the first siblings to combine for an Olympic gold medal in doubles. Venus also won the gold in singles.
Posted on June 26, 2008 with No Comments
Samir Shah, a member of the BBC’s board of directors, is criticizing network execs for “cloning” themselves offscreen, while “flickering” minorities onscreen, according to the Guardian.
In many of the UK networks’ television shows (including the popular soap, EastEnders), Shah says execs are hiring those like them behind the scenes to call the shots, but are overcompensating for their lack of executive diversity by putting minority actors onscreen—even if the roles they play have nothing to do with their race.
Shah says this had led to a “world of deracinated coloured people flickering across our screens—to the irritation of many viewers and the embarrassment of the very people such actions are meant to appease.”
PHOTO: Courtesy of BBC
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