Celebrities rock out @ Versace-H&M party (PICS + VIDEO)

November 9, 2011 No Comments

Tweet The launch of Versace’s partnership with retailer H&M brought the celebrities out to party Tuesday night. Oprah Winfrey, 57, rocked a red satin dress, complete with a low-cut neckline, that completely put her in a different light. Meanwhile Uma Thurman played it straight with a demure gray outfit. And of course, Prince and Nick ...

Prince on the Muppets Show (VIDEO)

November 2, 2011 1 Comment

Tweet Back when he wrote “Slave” on his cheek, the Artist Formerly Known As Prince, took to the Muppet Show for some levity. The episode, which aired in 1997, shows a rare glimpse of the artist as someone who, contrary to popular opinion at the time, didn’t take himself too seriously. Watch: Muppets perform Kanye ...

A Day in the Life: Misty Copeland (VIDEO)

September 19, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Ballet dancer Misty Copeland recently taked “A Day in the Life,” an exclusive Hulu documentary produced by Morgan Spurlock. In the 22-minute documentary, Copeland goes about her busy day, starting it with a visit to the Boys & Girls Club in Harlem and ending it with grueling hours of dance in a studio. “I can’t ...

Prince talks the 1980s: ‘We were very fascinating’

June 30, 2011 1 Comment

Tweet In an interview with the Guardian, Prince goes back in time, to a place where music reigned supreme. And everything. EVERTHING. Was purple. You realize that when His Purple Badness, Prince, talks about the 1980s it’s like a five-star general recalling his greatest war victories. In Purple. Read: Prince’s latest muse: Ballerina Misty Copeland ...

So, Pippa wants a Prince? How about a Purple One?

June 19, 2011 No Comments

Tweet So Pippa Middleton is single and ready to mingle, eh? And she’s into Princes? We’ve got just the thing. Word is that Pippa’s boyfriend Alex Loudon just couldn’t handle the international pressure of kicking it with the sister of a duchess so he said dueces. “Pippa has become very high profile, and it’s put a ...

Misty Copeland: ‘I Don’t Have a Perfect Ballet Body’

May 11, 2011 5 Comments

Tweet Prince knows what we all know about his muse of the moment: Misty Copeland is a baaaad girl. Even if the forces of ballet don’t like her body, we do. (Actually, they do too). “Misty’s enormously talented,” says American Ballet Theatre artistic director Kevin McKenzie. “She has this physique any ballerina would kill for—these legs ...

Women of Funk: Where’s the Beat Gone?

April 18, 2011 2 Comments

Tweet When it comes to music, funk has always been the closest to a cult religion: steadfastly followed by a few, hated by the masses. Too bad we don’t have true funkateers like we used to in the 1970s and 1980s. What we do have today though are a few hip-hop heads that manage to ...

Could Prince and Rihanna be ‘Secret Siblings’?

April 18, 2011 No Comments

Tweet More than a few people have said that in person Prince and RiRi have more than a striking resemblance to each other. Not to me, but to you, do they look alike, or at least like kissing cousins? With the disclosure that Rihanna may have secret siblings, there is a scant possibility that the ...

Appolonia Kotero: Still Hot at 51

April 15, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Blast from the past: Patricia Kotero (renamed Appolonia by the Purple One) is still smoking, almost 25 years after she purified the waters of Lake Minnetonka. BTW, “Purple Rain” is in my top 10 list of Best Films of All Time. No, “Dancing With the Stars” for this one, showbiz has officially dissed Appolonia ...

Ballerina Misty Copeland: Prince’s newest muse? (PHOTOS + VIDEO)

April 14, 2011 16 Comments

Tweet Does Prince have a new muse? Okay so maybe the modern dance world already knew about Misty Copeland, but the rest of us got the memo only after watching an awesome performance of her dancing during Prince’s performance of “The Beautiful Ones” on George Lopez’s show, “Lopez Tonight.” Read: Misty Copeland: ‘I don’t have ...

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