Baby Making Music: The Best Songs to Set the Mood
If you’re a Scorpio odds are you were conceived on Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day is the best commercial overindulgence next to Santa Claus as lovers not only partake in rich chocolates, intimate dates and extravagant gifts but the sultry serenades of rhythm and blues heartthrobs. In February, Black music shines as Jazz, R&B, Soul and [...]
Beauty Buy: Material Gurl
Hippies aren’t the only one’s using natural products. With the growing popularity of the natural look, barely there products are coming back with a vengeance. Sophomore chemistry majors Amal Marjani and Courtney Powell are taking on the cosmetic industry with their line Material Gurl. Marjani and Powell met at a Carol’s Daughter convention and discovered [...]
Dorm Life: 15 Minute Valentines Day Dinner
Valentine’s Day has crept up again and you are at a loss about that special gift for your significant other. Chocolate, flowers, cards, dinner and a movie are all too generic, and you want to do something that you have never done before. That is why for this Valentine’s Day surprising your significant other with [...]
Designer Spotlight: Stephen Burrows
The renowned Stephen Burrows is a living legend and plenty more. One of the most lastingly relevant Black fashion designers of all time, Burrows has a career spanning from the 1969 debut of his first collection to the lines and shows he produces today. He has established himself as one of the preeminent fashion icons [...]
Thrift Store Find: Ode to Galliano
What you’re paying for is technique. And the opportunity to look truly wicked. Isn’t it worth it as long as you look wicked and feel good? – John Galliano Well is it? When Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton CEO Bernard Arnault hired lurid fashion designer John Galliano as head designer of haute couture and ready-to wear [...]
The Love Poem – Shaun Redwood
I don’t even like love songs, but the right love song will make me write love songs about a right done wrong/ I like to write fantasy prose, poems of pimping/ Because girls only respect when you act cold and distant/
Blog: WTF?
I just want to start off today’s blog with this beauty… (Photo courtesy of Kanye West’s Blog) As most of you have probably already seen, heard or read, Kanye is going to continue on with his summer tour and this time he’s bringing along our favorite Lupe Fiasco! (I think by now we should all [...]
Bourbon & Booty: Saturday Night at The Mecca
Washington, DC – Howard University – House Party – 2:00 am … Tonight I found myself at a house party, counting how many times the words “bitches,” and “niggas,” was used in the songs blasting in my ears, all while sipping a red cup of unknown substances to start the night. Every stereotype and symbol [...]
