Friday, April 27, 2012

DECISIONS

SABBATICALS AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

I'M BACK STUCK IN A RUT, NEED A VACATION, NEED TO RE-ENERGIZE. A SABBATICAL IS TAKING A HAITUS TO GET A NEW VIEW. A SABBATICAL IS WHEN A VACATION WON'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM. I NEEDED A REAL BREAK. I NEEDED TO TAKE A BREATHER TO WORK ON SOME OTHER GOALS AND MAKE NEW ONES (WORKING ON THAT BOOK THAT NEEDS TO BE PUBLISHED AND A NEW HOBBY MAKING JEWELRY). THANKS SO MUCH FOR THOSE THAT ASKED AND WANT MORE OF AMBITION BLISS WILL CONTINUE ON.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

CHRISTIAN COMBS DIDDY'S MINI ME

CHRISTIAN COMBS DIDDY'S MINI ME MODELS THE NEW LINE OF OF FASHION FROM HIS FATHERS LINE SEAN JOHN.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

I WANT THIS

CHRISTIAN SIRANO THE ALLESANDRA T STRAP SHOE OH THE POSSIBILITIES.

HAPPY CUPCAKE DAY

MEDEA'S WITNESS PROTECTION TEASER

TYLER PERRY'S MEDEA'S WITNESS PROTECTION COMING THIS SUMMER.

TIA AND TAMERA PREMIERES SECOND SEASON IN JUNE

TIA AND TAMERA AND SON CREE
TIA
TAMERA The second season of the hit docu-series “Tia & Tamera” follows the identical twin sisters as they embark on major life transitions. The baby is here, the wedding is over – so now what? As they face the realities of motherhood and matrimony, Tia and Tamera lean heavily on each other to lighten the difficult moments with comedic insight and advice and to share their worries and fears. After nine months of sickness, pre-natal classes and then the birth, Tia now is figuring out how to actually be a mother to her son, Cree. Worry and concern abound as she struggles to find the right balance between being a successful actress and a successful mom. Tia tries to follow her maternal instincts and her heart when raising Cree but sometimes the question of “am I doing this right?” plagues her conscience. Tamera spent months preparing for her dream wedding, and as she approaches her one-year anniversary, she wonders about her new role as a working wife. With homes in Los Angeles and Napa Valley, where her husband’s family also owns a vineyard, Tamera finds herself pulled between two different worlds, struggling to decide where she will ultimately call home. “Tia & Tamera” highlights the funny, poignant, stressful and loving relationship of these sisters who are trying to make their mark in the home and out in the world … together The other half of our favorite celebrity twins is pregnant. Tamera Mowry-Housley is pregnant with her first child and she confirms the new with People Magazine. Also, Tia & Tamera has been picked up for a second season, so we will see some of this unfold this summer when the show returns. Congrats! I can’t wait to see this bundle of joy. Perhaps next time the sisters will time their pregnancies just right, and give birth to twin cousins. Adam and I are excited about having a baby and the blessing that he or she will bring to our lives and to our family and friends. We can’t wait to meet this little miracle!

A STREET CAR NAMED DESIRE

The moment the curtain rises, the earthy, sensual tones of Terence Blanchard's jazzy score fill the Broadhurst Theatre. In a place called Elysian Fields, a black man brings a package of meat home to his wife. Two neighbors, one white and one Latina, sit on a stoop, share stories and laugh. A finely dressed stranger with light skin enters the scene. This is New Orleans, just as Tennessee Williams might have imagined it. This revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, which opened April 22, marks the first time the 1947 play has appeared on Broadway with a multiracial cast. The production features Blair Underwood (Stanley), Nicole Ari Parker (Blanche), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Stella) and Wood Harris (Mitch). While this production is certainly a milestone, it's actually not the first of its kind. History in the Making Director Emily Mann, who knew the famous playwright personally, told The Root that Williams had always wanted to see a major production of Streetcar with a cast of color. Over the years, the playwright continually granted permission for several multiracial and all-black cast theater companies to produce his Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The first African-American production took place in 1953 by the Summer Theatre Co. at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo. In an ongoing effort to highlight the level of black talent in theater, Nick and Edna Stewart produced the first professional production of Streetcar at the Ebony Showcase Theatre in Los Angeles in 1955. Scholar Philip C. Kolin wrote in Williams: Streetcar Named Desire (Plays in Production), "A strong black presence has always inhabited Streetcar." Williams was a born Southerner, having spent his life surrounded by black culture. In an essay for Broadway.com, Mann wrote, "He understood human beings, period, and he understood New Orleans society. And you can't understand New Orleans and the South without understanding black people." Despite the play's cultural history, a major multiracial production of Streetcar would elude Broadway for years. COURTESY OF THE ROOT STORY BY CELENA CIPRIASO.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

BEAUTY

THIS REPRESENTS TO ME THE CHANGE OF SEASON FROM SPRING MOVING ON TO SUMMER BEAUTIFUL.

FOLLOW YOUR HEART

CAROL'S DAUGHTER TRANSISTIONING WEBSITE




SOLANGE KNOWLES IS AN AMBASSADOR FOR CAROL'S DAUGHTER HAIR PRODUCTS.

Arm Candy


MY NEW WATCH FROM AVON
I love my tortoise shell watch
me bracelets from Avon and Nail Polish
Me and my bracelets from Rainbow watch from Avon.



I am fasinated by wearing watches and bracelets and layering them both.

EYE CANDY




I recently saw Lenny Kravitz in Hunger Games and he did a good job. I think he is a natural actor and just great to look at.

This past November, Lenny Kravitz was awarded one of France’s highest accolades when he was made an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, an honor he received because, according to French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand, he had freed himself “from the barriers between black and white sound.” Indeed, Kravitz has a long history with the French, who embraced the retro ’60s vibe of his 1989 debut album, Let Love Rule, at a time when most of America didn’t know what to make of it. In fact, Kravitz even lives in Paris for several months a year.

Kravitz accepted this mark of distinction just a few months after releasing his ninth album, the expansive Black and White America (Atlantic/Roadrunner), which he recorded at his beach-front studio in the Bahamas (and which, tellingly, has risen higher on the charts in France than in the U.S.). With its angular guitar riffs and smooth vocals, Black and White America revisits the vintage rock-funk fusion of Kravitz’s early days. The album also draws heavily on other aspects of Kravitz’s past, including his upbringing as the child of actress Roxie Roker and TV producer Sy Kravitz, and growing up biracial as he traversed a variety of different (and disparate) spheres.

While Kravitz, who turns 48 later this spring, says he has spent a lot of time “laying low” recently, he has been anything but idle. His design firm, Kravitz Design, a boutique business he started in 2003, counts Philippe Starck and a handful of high-end hotels amongst its clients. In the four years since his last album, Kravitz has also delved into acting, offering up a brief but soulful performance as a male nurse in Lee Daniels’s Academy Award–winning drama Precious (2009). This month, he follows that up with a role in Gary Ross’s highly anticipated, post-apocalyptic thriller The Hunger Games, based on the wildly successful young-adult book series by Suzanne Collins that tracks the participants in a surrealistic adolescent death-match game show. In the film, Kravitz plays Cinna, a flamboyant stylist who dresses one of the movie’s young fighter protagonists, Katniss Everdeen (played by Jennifer Lawrence), in exuberant, flaming ensembles (one bejeweled gown is literally on fire). It may seem like an unexpected turn for an alpha-male sex-symbol guitar hero, but then again, if anyone has mastered flouting expectations, it’s Kravitz. He recently spoke with R&B singer, producer, and longtime friend Raphael Saadiq.


RAPHAEL SAADIQ: So how did you wind up in Hunger Games?

LENNY KRAVITZ: Gary [Ross] saw Precious and said that he liked the character of Nurse John, so he thought I’d be right for the role in Hunger Games since Cinna is somebody who is looking out for somebody and is a support figure, too. So he called me down here in the Bahamas— I was actually making the album at the time. He said, “Hi, I’m making this movie called The Hunger Games. I think you’d be great. If you want it, you’ve got the part.” No audition. I was really flattered, but I had not read the book. So I downloaded it. I remember I started it late one night and I needed to go to bed—I was tired and had been recording all day and night—but I couldn’t stop reading because I was captured by the story. So I finished the book and called him back and said, “I’d love to do it.” You know, the film definitely represents these times—from government on down to reality television. It’s interesting that we’re living in these times. Really, when you go back to being in junior high school and reading George Orwell’s 1984, you’re, like, “Man, here were are . . .” Our characters have changed, our sensibilities. We’re definitely morphing into something different.

SAADIQ: Do you think anything like The Hunger Games could ever actually happen?

KRAVITZ: You know what’s funny? A lot of reality television started in Europe—things like Big Brother, where you had random people living in a house together and all this stuff started happening. And then you had all the gladiator stuff and the competitions. I remember saying, “One day we’re going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we’re going to watch it on TV .” It sounds like a really far-fetched and politically incorrect statement at this point, but who knows how twisted we’re going to get? Because our appetite grows, our thirst for excitement . . . So who knows in the next 50 years where we’re gonna go? Hopefully we’ll go somewhere smarter and more beautiful and more peaceful, but that’s not where we’re headed at the moment. Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.

SAADIQ: When I saw you pop up in Precious, I was like, “That’s cool because Lenny’s still Lenny.” How do you deal with that? Do you pick films in which you can remain Lenny but sometimes bust outside of your own character a little bit, too?

John Legend - Tonight (best you ever had) ft ludacris



I went to a screening of "Think Like a Man" and this song has been on my mind ever since.