It took a few months of coin pinching and a dam lot of keyboard hustling to get myself a plane ticket to visit California again but I’m finally on my way. I’m excited to be able to visit again, though this trip won’t just be all BBQ’s and conversation over bottles of wine. I’m planning on meeting with several fabulous

I’m what they call ‘red boned’ and this title is not something I bestowed upon myself. It seems like people have always had terms to refer to the various shades of blackness among all races, and with that reference comes value. Dark Girls is a new documentary that discusses colorism in all cultures, but with a special focus on the

See how great the internet is…? I press a button and suddenly I’m engulfed in an amazingly good electro-pulse mash-up from an artist by the name of Neus. From what I can decipher via my very limited grasp of French, NEUS, short for “New Experimental for Universal Sound” is a 21 year old artist whose making waves with his signature hybrid production style.

People are looking to food as an alternative to medicine to find relief from the illnesses that ail them. Not only that, but there is ample proof that a diet healthy in grains, vegetables and protein will also offer a better defense from becoming sick in the first place. For pet owners it only seems like a natural progression to

There are those that sit as bystanders and curiously watch the world from the outside in, never realizing all the while as slight occurrences happen, that things are changing. They are ignorant of the impact that these small anomalies will have on the cultural movement as it shifts before them. They accept things for what they are, they are merely voyeurs who

I ain’t got time for much these days, I’m busy as hell trying to square away 2011 like everyone else. And when I mean I’m busy I am mean I AM BUSY!! But I’m never too busy to check out my people’s when they’re doing something awesome and there was no way in Hell I would have missed Max’s pop-up

Things are moving so fast right now and though I still chastise myself for not ‘working’ behind a desk for some faceless employer, I have to remember that my new profession is that of a writer. And then I smile real big because this whole process is wildly awesome! Night before last I received my most recent shipment of books

The phone has been ringing all week and although I promised to be out and about it hasn’t worked out like I thought it would. I’ve been working, collecting new clients, meeting with my colleagues and writing on the blogs that I contribute to. I went MIA for about two weeks and the reason was so that I could once and for

  It’s crazy how Twitter can be both good and bad. I’m just sitting here minding my business and low and behold I see @UCanCallMeLA tweeting RIP Heavy D. It takes nothing to do a Google search and there it is. Another pioneer rap legend, another young black man, another death. It’s crazy when anyone passes on but it’s worse

This Saturday, October 29th, I’ll be in Union NJ at the Barrister Smoke shop hosting @Steelsouls event. At our last event, I was whisked into the center of the floor before I could even get my coat off. I’ll have a special announcement to make and will be on hand to discuss the difficulties that comes along with running a small business and what steps