Picture it: June, 2004. An e-mail I just barely missed asked me a life-changing question and granted me one of the luckiest breaks I’d ever received as a new journalist and freelance contributor at The Dallas Morning News: “Lorrie, ______ isn’t feeling well, do you think you could cover the #Prince show tonight?” WHUUUUUUUUUUUT?!? Is… Continue reading #TBT Tribute: Professor Prince Drops “Musicology” Lessons at Dallas’ AAC (2004)
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Abiah’s “Bottles” CD Preview/Review Link
……“So In Love With You” is a languidly-paced, nearly melancholy number, but features shattering high notes that would make Philip Bailey and Mariah Carey jealous. That sunlit song with Ms. Avery, “Darling Be Mine,” is a sensual, lilting ‘come hither’ duet, ripe with an elegance, tenderness and ‘old-world’ level of courting that most in the… Continue reading Abiah’s “Bottles” CD Preview/Review Link
Oct. 19: Untangling Blue: The Thin Line Between “Nasty” & “Natural”
*THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY IS A READ OF THE ADULTS INVOLVED, NOT OF THE CHILD* I simply don’t understand the Beygency/Beyhive turning a blind eye to the fubar priorities being demonstrated by the Carters and turning it into a interracial issue rather than one of class—–the precise reason I started my locks is BECAUSE the hair… Continue reading Oct. 19: Untangling Blue: The Thin Line Between “Nasty” & “Natural”
I Can’t, I Won’t, Just STOP: An Open Letter To Alexsandra Wright
Ladies & Gentlemen, please allow me to jump up on the soapbox for a hot minute about this right here, excuse the length of my rant because I am feeling ALL types of ways about the whole mess… I don’t enjoy seeing ANYONE struggle as a single parent and think that men/women who willfully neglect… Continue reading I Can’t, I Won’t, Just STOP: An Open Letter To Alexsandra Wright