There’s a scene early on in The Dark Knight Rises (and btw there are no spoiler alerts in here, so if you haven’t seen it yet, that’s on you) in which the character played by Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle, whispers into Br

The stunt-double Queen Elizabeth II parachuting out of a chopper with a fake James Bond was cool and all, but, hijinks aside, there were two indelible images coming out of the first weekend of the London Olympics. You had swim star Ryan Lochte fl

Essence magazine named her as one its 35 Under 35, Black & Amazing.

NYC’s celebrity row took to Twi

Kudos to Kobe Bryant for deftly roping the sporting world into actually debating whether this current Team USA would beat the landmark 1992 Dream Team. I thoroughly dug Marc Gasol’s take on the argument that warrants no argument. “Who

It’s often hard to understand what the public wants from Nas. He is undoubtedly one of the true greats that hip hop has ever generated, yet he remains an enigma. His 10^th album, Life is Good, dropped last week and, per t

Straight up – I’d have been standing in a water works puddle if I were Adam Scott. Scott is a G. After such a stunning lack of composure on his last four holes, to tourn around and actually maintain his composure as he p

I have been a Frank Ocean fan since “Acura Integurl” and Nostalgia/Ultra reaffirmed my love for emo boys with dark skin tones. I can’t help it; I am a sucker for wit, R&B, and frustrated love. Ocean’s presence

Late in February, after a New York loss in Miami, then coach Mike D'Antoni said, "It's hard to be Peter Pan every day."

That was the night when Jeremy Lin, the boy that could fly, fell back to earth. And he fell hard. H

I wasn’t 100 percent sure what it was about, but I did notice the flood of activity on my timeline last week regarding Frank Ocean and something about a letter. I’ve become, over many years, very adept at filtering information; so, oc

Until November 2011, Joe Paterno and Penn State University were two of the most venerated institutions in all of sports. Referring to Paterno – a man – as an institution is no misnomer, either. The man held the all-time wins record fo

A few months ago, my brother Adam was watching one of those music video stations (VH1 Soul, MTV Jams…I don't know) and I heard a familiar sound. The beat was dank, claustrophobic and ruminating. The emcee was spitting compounds. The record

The season is halfway over and there are already a handful of dreams deferred, best-case scenarios and random occurrences presented in the 2012 season. For those of you who lost track of the major stories, here a refresher.

Over the past decade or so, some NBA offseasons get marred by negative-skewing storylines that quickly go from titillating to trite. There was overreaction to Allen Iverson, a.k.a. Jewelz, dropping “40 Barz” in 2000 and the ugly 2004

There’s a line from an old Jay-Z song (the “Can’t Knock the Hustle” remix) that came to mind while writing this story. In the song the

If you went to the hood, walked in a KFC and received absolutely wretched customer service, how would you react? You’d probably just be quietly annoyed, get your food and go on about your day, right? It wouldn’t matter if the teenage

College football as American as baseball and apple pie. Very few things are more a part of the American tapestry than college football and – probably more than any other sport – it has skillfully manipulated its version of retro-ness

America, our long national nightmare is over.  Last night was both the beginning and ending of an era. Not merely the turning of a page in a book, but an entire new volume altogether. I’m speaking of the Miami Heat winning the 2012 NBA