EntertainmentSnob
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I wrote a piece for The Root about legendary choreographer Carmen de Lavallade. You can read it here, but I think it’s a lot more fun to watch her dance.
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In a recent post for The Root I write about how VH1 has managed to get away with the kind of mess people would have blown up BET for. Is it a good thing? Is it a bad thing? I don’t know. But it sure is an ironic thing.
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“It’s fascinatingly ridiculous. It kinda feels like how y’know when you were like five-years-old and you were playing pretend and started making up things you thought an adult would say. But you’re five and have no clue how that works. That’s why it’s so fascinating because they don’t actually have that excuse for not knowing
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Or … “Don’t Fight Your Brother-in-law” There are, um, a few reasons why singer/songwriter Solange Knowles decided to go H.A.M. on her brother-in-law, Jay Z, while her infinitely more famous sister, Beyonce Knowles, just kind of stood there fixing her dress. 1. He looked at her funny.* 2. She was drunk and took something the
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Growing up, like a lot of little girls, I enjoyed “Fairy Tales.” But not the weird “Princess culture” fairy tales of today, but the dark, weird Grimm Fairy tales that, when you really thought about it, were quite disturbing. Hence, when I saw “The Little Mermaid” as a kid, I’d already read the source material
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I love hip hop. I grew up listening to it. I’m a fan. I’m especially a fan of female MCs, something that was much more commonplace in the 80s and 90s, but not so much now. Now, it’s pretty much Nicki Minaj. And I, initially, did not like Nicki Minaj. She’s since sort of grown on
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Some things have to be seen to be believed, like five dorks in blackface (and one in “whiteface”) doing a “tribute” to the Jackson 5 as the Jackson Jive. I suppose you could attempt the “maybe Aussies don’t know blackface is offensive in 2009” excuse. That might work, you know? If they didn’t already have
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