The Miami Heat put the New York Knicks one more defeat from extinction Thursday night at Madison Square Garden, winning Game 3 87-70 under the fourth-quarter brilliance of LeBron James and guard Mario Chalmers. James rang up 32 points — including eight straight to start the fourth — and the unheralded Chalmers added 19, including [...]
Atlanta Jazz Festival Takes Over Atlanta for 31 Days of May
May 3, 2012 | Posted by
The City of Atlanta is gearing up for its 35th Atlanta Jazz Festival this Memorial Day Weekend. The event is the largest free jazz festival in the country and annually attracts a notable line-up of established, emerging, local talent and ten of thousands of fans to the lush lawns of Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta. [...]
Can the Age of the BlackBerry Return?
May 3, 2012 | Posted by
As the release date approaches for its new BlackBerry 10 operating system and devices, Research In Motion will need to create a niche in an increasingly competitive cell phone market. As of now, the BlackBerry 10 hopes to usurp the Windows Phone as a distant third place in the smartphone OS race. Microsoft’s devices are [...]
Eric Benet New Single Is An Ode To ‘Redbone Girls’
May 3, 2012 | Posted by
Eric Benet has issued “Redbone Girl,” his highly anticipated collaboration with Young Money rapper Lil Wayne. Benet reached out to Weezy for the mid-tempo duet after learning that Wayne was listening to his hit record “Sometimes I Cry” while he was incarcerated. Read the rest of the story on the Singers Room
Beyonce to Receive Writing Award from Black Journalists Association
May 3, 2012 | Posted by
Beyonce will be honored with a writing award from the New York Association of Black Journalists on May 15 for a feature editorial she wrote for Essence, entitled, “Eat, Play, Love.” The singer and actress, who has recently been named People Magazine’s, “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” of 2012, documented her 9-month vacation from [...]
Mayweather Top-Earning Athlete In 2011
May 3, 2012 | Posted by
ESPN The Magazine will release its “Money Issue” on May 14, and at the top of it will be boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. According to the publication, Mayweather, who fights Miguel Cotto this weekend in Las Vegas, earned $40 million last year, which is tops by far for one athlete in the United States. [...]
Samuel L. Jackson Slams ‘Avengers’ Critic On Twitter
May 3, 2012 | Posted by
Samuel L. Jackson is an actor who obviously reads reviews — and cares about them. He took to twitter today to target New York Times critic A.O. Scott for negative comments in his review of Marvel’s The Avengers, in which Jackson stars as eye-patch-wearing S.H.I.E.L.D. commander Nick Fury. While seeming to enjoy aspects of the [...]
A Detailed Look Inside Whitney Houston’s Final Days
May 3, 2012 | Posted by
“The last thing I remember her saying was ‘I just want to love and be loved. I want to love like Jesus did. Unconditionally,’” Tiffanie Dixon, Whitney Houston’s hairdresser, tells contributing editor Mark Seal in June’s Vanity Fair of the last night she spent with the singer. Dixon was with Houston and her alleged boyfriend [...]
My Kid Ran Her First 5K—And Inspired Her Mother To Get Moving
May 3, 2012 | Posted by
I’m going to go ahead and keep it 100: I got about as much athletic skill as Pookie in that rehab scene in New Jack City. You can stick me on a bike, drop me off on a track, glue a ball to my hand, and I wouldn’t know thing one what to do with [...]
NFL Concussion Defendants Rise by Another 100
May 3, 2012 | Posted by
Yet another lawsuit regarding concussions was filed against the NFL in Atlanta on Thursday, carrying the names of more than 100 former players, including former Falcons Jamal Anderson and O.J. Santiago, among others. These players join more than 1,500 others who allege that the league intentionally deceived players as to the dangers of concussions, and [...]
