Saturday , 23 January 2021
Chance the Rapper… … has become an overnight sensation. I discovered his mixtape, Coloring Book, in the ‘New Music’ section on Apple Music back in June and haven’t looked back sinc ...
Brunch in Oakland is one of my favorite things to do! Why? Well, all of the best brunch spots are these small, hometown, could be a 50s diner type places… Call me a country girl at ...
My girl! Jill Scott! I’m what you call a Jill Super Fan… I know all the tracks of every album since ‘This is Jill Scott’. So when I learned she was coming to town… and at a winery, ...
From the baby mama of a freeloading, cheating, thug named Jodi in the 2001 film, ‘Baby Boy’, to the morally-challenged New York Times reporter in the new stage play, ‘Above the Fold’, Taraji P. Henson has come such a long way! SN: For all of you new-age folk, “above the fold” refers to the... Read more »
Let’s start by giving a special shout out to dineLA for hosting Restaurant Week 2014 Winter Edition. It’s due to this fine invention that my girls and I were introduced to Sadie’s Kitchen & Lounge in Hollywood. Hidden immediately off of Hollywood Blvd. (on Las Palmas Ave.), Sadie’s Kitchen is definitely more than... Read more »
It’s that time again! Time for dineLA’s Restaurant Week happening January 20-31, 2014! You know those restaurants that you’ve always wanted to try but didn’t want to risk not paying your rent to eat there? No? Just me? In any event, dineLA’s Restaurant Week is for those people! Twice a year, dineLA hosts... Read more »
Every year, Los Angeles brings the top art collections, antiques and jewelry under one very expensive roof for the 2014 LA Art Show, Jan. 17-20 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Scheduled during the same weekend as Photo LA, the 2014 LA Art Show showcased contemporary art, modern works and ancient collections from an array... Read more »
“What!?! You write a blog about brunch in LA and you haven’t been to Toast!?!” If I heard this one more time, I was gonna scream… So one Saturday morning, I put on my best cut-up T-Shirt, jean shorts and combat boots and made my way to Toast Bakery Cafe. It was your... Read more »
When I heard that Lion King Broadway was making it’s was to Pantages Theater, Los Angeles for the entire 2013 Holiday Season, it was like Christmas came early! I’ve seen Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway now on four separate occasions over the past 20 years and it still ranks in my top 3... Read more »
Now that I think about it, I was way too young to love The Best Man as much as I did when the first film released in 1999. Fourteen years later, however, Director Malcolm D. Lee has managed to bring all of the joy and love I had for those characters back, in... Read more »
Verizon’s How Sweet The Sound annual gospel competition, brought the best gospel choirs in the country back to Los Angeles this year for a chance to win a $25,000 grand prize. Now in it’s 6th year, HSTS toured the country from Sept. to Nov. auditioning finalists to perform at the grand finale at Nokia Theatre... Read more »
I’m going to let my pictures truly speak for the kind of fun we had walking down Santa Monica for the annual City of West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval. The scary. The sexy. The fun. The fabulous. All showed up for this annual event, rated in many travel magazines as one of the top... Read more »
One cold and scary night, a group of friends set out to explore one of LA’s most well-attended Halloween attractions… The Los Angeles Haunted Hayride… Muahahahahaha! I’ve seen the billboards, heard the chatter, plus one of my actor friends was hired to play the ghost of Tupac so the LA Haunted Hayride was on... Read more »