I’m a survivor. I did make it. I got it together. If I can do it, right…? Promise to try, everybody.
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it (Captain Phillips Reunion Alert!): These 2020 Christmastimes, Tom Hanks is gonna have some special News of the World. Directed by Paul Greengrass. It’s five years after the end of the Civil War; Hanks will be playing Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd in the film, a veteran of three wars, who […]
Pa’ Que Salgan Acicala
Les cuento que la cantante colombiana Karol G se ha juntado con Kappa, la marca italiana de sportswear, para lanzar la primera colección de su nuevo partnership, KAROL G x KAPPA, inspirada por “Bichota,” el nuevo single de la ganadora del Latin Grammy. La línea representa el mensaje empoderador de la canción y cuenta con […]
The COVID-19 Holiday Collective
We get knocked down, but we get up again. The last four years have been tough. And, yeah, by that I mean 2020. It has been a moment, and methinks it’s worth acknowledging it. So drop a pin: We are here. I am here. You’re never gonna keep me down; I’m a survivor. And if […]
Georgia!
So Election Day 2020 is not over yet. Don‘t you know, don‘t you know, there is a key runoff election set for Jan. 5 down in the Peach State. You know. Pretty please, Georgia, do put the 🍑 into Donald Trump’s impeachment and vote Democrat. Like, democracy and practical progress depend on Democrats securing a […]
Hear Ye, Hear Ye: The Mother of the Blues
Meanwhile, coming to Netflix is Academy Award winner Viola Davis in a starry turn as Ma Rainey, the woman née Gertrude Pridgett in Georgia in 1886 o.k.a. the Mother of the Blues, in George C. Wolfe’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, an adaptation of the eponymous 1982 August Wilson play. Set in Chicago during a steamy […]
The Thing About Madonna’s ‘MDNA’
The thing about Madonna’s MDNA is – and pay no mind to this one, if you are underage – the album, maligned as though it may be, works surprisingly well on shuffle. On shuffle. With a side of spark it up. I remember this one time, in Miami, when I smoked a little bit of […]
#Iclosemyeyes…and I’m One Night in Miami
Balmy Ocean Drive, sand in my toes, piña coladas from the Palace. Human nature. I can feel my old tan on my tan skin. We won’t be traveling this winter, but you know Imma let Academy Award winner Regina King take me One Night in Miami…, alright. Sign. Me. Up. Oh, we already are, to […]
Headed Our Way
If ever there was a week to veg and keep it chill, this is the one, America. Our collective COVID-19 numbers are out of hand, so, as you can appreciate, it is ultimately the nurses and doctors and frontline workers – the ones for whom the pots and pans once banged (remember that sense of […]
The Thing About ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
You guys! Seventeen tumultuous, romantic, and engaging seasons in and Shonda Rhimes’ enduring network-TV hit, Grey’s Anatomy, still’s got it going on. Y’all watched last week’s two-hour COVID-centric season premiere, right? I mean! Not gonna front, I was all giddy and choke-up from the big surprise, ’cause not only had the powers that be pulled […]
