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When a Dogg Becomes a Lion

Impossible! From canine to feline? Simply impossible! But what if you just called the dog a cat? Maybe that could work because it would just be a name. It brings to mind the famous line from Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”.  True or false: it doesRead More

Meet Tiwa Savage!

If you have read the Weekly Music Commentary for a while, you understand how I feel about the entire world of entertainment.  As I have written before, “with the growth of technology the world grows increasingly smaller“. While I sit in my corner of South Florida in the US, this article is being read byRead More

Is Lil’ Wayne Okay?

Who is the hottest rapper today? Depending upon whom you ask that question you may get various answers. I remember asking a friend who he thought was the top rapper right now, and he said definitely Lil’ Wayne. A lot of folks reading this week may disagree, but he should be included if there isRead More

Against All Odds

Fantasia Barrino Overall, about half (51%) of teen moms have a high school diploma compared to 89% of women who didn’t have a teen birth. Young teen mothers are even less likely to graduate from high school. Fewer than four in ten (38%) mothers who have a child before they turn 18 have a highRead More

Trying Something Different

Robert Glasper When you think about the different genres within the music industry, they seem to divide musicians like nation’s borders divide the population of the world.  Genres are used more by music executives to categorize music for record sales purposes. I learned about genres early as I remember presenting a dance record I wasRead More

Youth is the Hope of Our Future

Coco Jones The title of this weeks’ post is a quote from Jose Rizal, a reformist and nationalist prominent in the history of the Philippines.  Rizal was a polymath; he attended medical school and was a practicing physician, as well as an artist, a poet and essayist, additionally remembered as a political figure. He accomplishedRead More

It’s a Family Affair

Tamar Braxton Recently the entertainment world has been buzzing with news from singer/reality show star Tamar Braxton. She is an integral character on one of televisions’ most successful reality shows, Braxton Family Values, a show that follows the lives of the sister musical group The Braxtons. Also, Tamar stars in a spin-off of the showRead More