Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Is Essence magazine near folding? That’s what word around the magazine world is right now. A press release went out today announcing the retirement of Beauty and Cover Director Mikki Taylor who’s been at Essence for 30 years. We also found out that a major assistant as well the entire fashion team was AWOL today. And after a huge amount of layoffs last November, 6 more people “left” just last week. One was major Beauty editor Pamela Edwards Christiani–who is now over at People mag.
And we’re not going to even go in about the stock photo (instead of an actual photoshoot) the mag decided to use of Reggie Bush for their February cover.
Print everywhere is suffering, but is one of the only journalistic print mags for young black fashion and beauty savvy women about to be a goner? Hmmm.
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Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Cutie Fabolous is covering the pages of Signature magazine and talking candidly about fashion, his upcoming album and career:
Nice looks for Fab.
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Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Monday, March 15, 2010
It looks like our wishes have come true. Black Voices is reporting that BET is near to finalizing the deal to bring back “The Game.” New episodes and all. If everything goes as planned, new episodes will be shot this May with original Exec. Producer Mara Brock Akil on location in Atlanta. Here’s the scoop:
“The deal is done between the two networks,” the source told BV Buzz. “Now it’s a matter of getting the actors under contract again.”
When The CW canceled the show in May of last year, the contracts with the shows stars Tia Mowry, Pooch Hall, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Hosea Chanchez, Brittany Daniel and Coby Bell weren’t optioned and ultimately expired on June 30, 2009.
Now BET has to negotiate new contracts with the actors, which is expected to be done within the next two wMelanie & Derwin on ‘The Game’eeks.
“The show will have the same production value, so the actors will make the same type of money they made when they did ‘The Game’ for The CW,” the source shared.
The only hiccup is actor Coby Bell (Jason Pitts) who is currently starring in the tv show “Burn Notice.” Reports say he will likely still be on “The Game” if it returns, but in a recurring role. Sweet!
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Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Sunday, March 14, 2010
Halle Berry was spotted getting ready for her daughter Nahla’s 2nd birthday this afternoon. Little Nahla’s b-day is this upcoming Tuesday, and Halle was spotted bringing this classic red tricycle out of the garage and into her trunk. Somebody’s going to be a happy camper in a few days….
And here’s Gabby Sidibe’s feature in the french Elle. Whoa at those hair-horns.
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Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Friday, March 12, 2010
La La Vazquez is covering the April 2010 issue of Latina magazine. And the fab 30 year old makes it clear that she’s been calling her own shots for a long time.
She’s also talking about her multimillionaire baller fiancé Carmelo Anthony. “I don’t think people understand how hard I’ve worked to achieve the things I have,” she tells Latina.
We’ve got some interesting quotes from La La and Melo on their controversial long term engagement. And Melo sets the record straight once and for all:
“Even with all that I’ve accomplished on my own,” says Alani “La La” Vazquez in the April 2010 issue of Latina magazine, “I know the story out there about me: ‘[Carmelo] ain’t gonna marry her. She got that ring but now he’s making her wait. He don’t really love her…’ For once…I’d like to tell the story as it is. Not as it’s told.”
“I wasn’t making her wait,” Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony tells Latina magazine of La La, his fiancée. “If anything, I was waiting for her to slow down. She was doing her own thing, handling her business and we were happy. When it was time to take it to the next step we did. Period.”
So has he ever doubted for a minute that La La Vazquez is Mrs. Right, one with life, mindset (and bank account) of her own? Melo speaks slowly, but surely: “ I wouldn’t be with her if it was any other way.” “Understood?”
Ok Melo. I see you. Set us straight then. I’m not even mad. Who doesn’t love a man that doesn’t play games when it comes to talking about his woman?
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Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Thursday, March 11, 2010
Shaunie O’Neal is featured in the new issue of Essence magazine. And looking fabulous in it while playing with her kiddies. She did an 8 page spread for the mag about her new show, her marriage to Shaq, and why she FINALLY left.
Her new reality show on VH1 is called “Basketball Wives,” and it premieres on Sunday, April 11th at 10PM ET/PT.
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Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Usher is rocking the cover of the new issue of Billboard magazine. And he’s talking about why this new album Raymond VS. Raymond is differing from Here I Stand. And he’s ready to focus less on his marriage and more on his swagger:
“I went all the way into being super husband and super dad, thinking, ‘I’ve got to be serious all the time. I’ve got to be the man.’ I put my swagger down for a minute, but I didn’t throw it away, now it’s time to get it back.”
‘Papers’ let everyone know that Usher knew what everyone was saying about him, his marriage and his relationship with his mom; that he understood what was being said,” Pitts says. “It was just to make a statement. We didn’t realize it would be as big as it was.”
Usher adds, “The song wasn’t intended to glorify my personal situation or people breaking up. I didn’t know if it was going to be the single or part of the album. I just thought it was a special track that would represent me well.”
We shall see….
And speaking of Usher, his former “Nice & Slow” video girl Kimora Lee has some brand new promo images with her and the kiddies out for “Life In The Fab Lane”:
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